Group technology (GT) has a great significance in the engineering industry. There is the greatest utilisation of GT in planning activities, especially in process planning and in layout machine design. GT is a manufacturing philosophy that has proved successful by grouping parts into families to speed production and reduce costs. In addition, the application of GT can lead to reductions of in-pr...

Index Babzien Canova Chowdhury Chvykov Corner Ditmire Donovan Flippo Galvanauskas Gaul Karsch Krushelnick Leemans Lu Martinez Osterhoff Polyanskiy Rosenzweig Roth Schroeder Specka Toth Umstadter Zeil Name of submitting author Mr. Marcus Babzien Institution Brookhaven National Laboratory Email [email protected] Abstract Title BNL ATF Timing System Upgrades Author/Affiliation listing M. Babzien, M....

Learning in groups has many pedagogical and social benefits. However, effective group formation for collaborative learning is challenging and requires instructors to make a number of non-trivial decisions. There are several issues to address. (i) Scalability: when facing a handful of students in a classroom scenario, instructors can use their experience and knowledge of the students to group th...

What are the key indicators determining groups’ attitudes towards the use of ICT in the United States? Nationally representative data from the Pew Internet and American Life Project (N = 4100) were used to address this question. This research found that (1) the most salient divider in the American population with respect to attitudes towards ICT is education; (2) the two social groups reporting...

Concurrent engineering (CE) has emerged as an essential design principle that facilitates rapid and efficient product development that is necessary to survive in today’s fiercely competitive environment. However, the lack of tools that address design team formulation and proper design task assignment in CE has made its application an immense challenge. In this article we explicitly address this...

Without shared understanding, hardly any group learning takes place. Though much has been written about the essence of shared understanding, less is known about how to assess the process of reaching shared understanding. Therefore, the study focuses on ways of assessing shared understanding. A conceptual framework is described that makes a distinction between the process of reaching shared unde...

The Biologically Inspired Robotics Group (BIRG, http://birg.epfl.ch) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) carries out research in robotics, computational neuroscience, nonlinear dynamical systems, and learning/optimization algorithms. We are interested in understanding the fascinating control and learning abilities observed in animals, and to develop systems –programs...

Group Technology is a manufacturing philosophy and strategy that assists a company in understanding what it manufactures and how those products are then manufactured. GT provides a means to identify and exploit the "underlying sameness" or similarities of parts and processes. Once identified, it is possible to capitalize on these similarities by processing together groups of similar parts (fami...

The COntractor REnormalization group (CORE) method, a new approach to solving Hamiltonian lattice systems, is presented. The method defines a systematic and nonperturbative means of implementing KadanoffWilson real-space renormalization group transformations using cluster expansion and contraction techniques. We illustrate the approach and demonstrate its effectiveness using scalar field theory...