Role/Viewpoint of panelist or organization The Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC) is a non-profit organization comprised of manufacturing practitioners, suppliers and technology companies; manufacturing consortia; universities; government agencies, laboratories and regional consortia committed to improving U.S. manufacturing competitiveness through the comprehensive adoption of Sma...

Labor productivity was studied at the microscopic level in terms of distributions based on individual firm financial data from Japan and the US. A power-law distribution in terms of firms and sector productivity was found in both countries’ data. The labor productivities were not equal for nation and sectors, in contrast to the prevailing view in the field of economics. It was found that the lo...

this research aims at presenting a consolidated model of data envelopment analysis (dea) technique and value engineering to select the best manufacturing methods for gate valve covers and ranking the methods using topsis.to do so, efficiency evaluation indices were selected based on the value engineering approach and different manufacturing methods were evaluated using dea technique.finally, ef...

The parts produced by additive manufacturing are inherently subjected to discretization effects due their layer-based addition. stair-stepping effect on the surface quality is inevitable for most of techniques and it becomes more dominant regions having small inclinations. influences mechanical properties as well aesthetic perception. Many researchers have been presented several approaches over...

T his paper investigates the gain of bilateral trade between China and U.S. in manufacturing sectors when both countries play a role in asymmetric (biased) growth of  international trade. Our model includes a special case of Biased Growth Theory in international trade. We collected labor productivity, export and import data by using classification of manufacturing industries, for U.S...

Reducing Work-In-Process (WIP) in manufacturing systems is associated with advantages such as predictable throughput times and increased manageability. To achieve this, an abundance of WIP control methods have been developed, CONWIP1 Kanban for repetitive manufacturing, LUMS COR2 POLCA3 high-variety manufacturing. These take three types decisions, viz., release (entry to the system), authorizat...

today manufacturing contract has a special place in the big and small transaction. the subject of manufacturing contract is the made of goods that manufacturer has recommended to maker with determining of attributes and characterizes with preparation primary materials to make it in a specified time and shall delivered to manufacturer. manufacturing contract in fourth school of religious jurispr...

AIMS To ascertain whether there is an increased risk of cancers of the lung and lymphohaematopoietic tissue in workers employed in the New Zealand meat processing industry, and to identify exposures associated with any increased risks. METHODS A cohort of 6647 individuals assembled from personnel records from three plants was followed from 1988 until 2000. The observed number of deaths and ca...

PURPOSE To determine the incidence and epidemiological characteristics of work-related asthma in Korea. METHODS During 2004-2009, the Korea Work-Related Asthma Surveillance (KOWAS) program collected data on new cases of work-related asthma from occupational physicians, allergy and chest physicians, regional surveillance systems, and workers' compensation schemes. The incidence was calculated ...

We develop a scheme for representing critical non-functional requirements (NFRs), and apply it to the domain of multimedia educational software (MES) to validate it. Our approach extends the model for representing design rationale by making explicit evaluation goals, providing the means to improve the quality of MES. Further research issues will be discussed including the need to relate NFRs to...