The selection and implantation of sufficient and appropriate continuous improvement strategy are the key success factors for improving firm performance and enhancement of competitive advantage on manufacturing industries. As a result special role are given to Continuous improvement programs such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), Six-Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM), Kaizen, Just-in-Time (J...

The leaching kinetics of a low-grade zinc oxide ore in different acid media was investigated with respect to the experimental variables including acid concentration, temperature, liquid to solid (L/S) ratio, and stirring speed. The results obtained showed that the leaching reagent concentration and the reaction temperature exerted significant effects on the extraction of zinc, whereas the L/S r...

A Product of Experts (PoE) model is a probabilistic model which combines a number of individual component models by multiplying their probabilities. A typical PoE model is an exponential family Harmonious introduced by Welling et al. In this paper, we apply a hierarchical PoE model, Complex-Cell Model (CCM), to image retrival and compare the performance with a kind of standard harmonious model,...

The importance of collaboration in a supply chain has led several scholars to suggest diverse approaches. Questions still remain concerning the best way of dealing with collaboration and conflicts under demand and supply uncertainties. This research proposes a model based on case-based reasoning and multi-agents for supply chain collaboration and information sharing (MACBR-SCM). The MACBR-SCM i...

This document contains details of the SCM deformable soil model implemented in Chrono. The soft soil model discussed herein is an extended version of the classical SCM Soil Contact Model used at DLR for predicting rover mobility. The model, which is based on a fast semi-empirical expeditious approach that requires few parameters, is ideal for scenarios that require a fast (near real-time) simul...

Software Configuration Management (SCM) techniques have been considered the entry point to rigorous software engineering, where multiple organizations cooperate in a decentralized mode to save resources, ensure the quality of the diversity of software products, and manage corporate information to get a better return of investment. The incessant trend of Global Software Development (GSD) and the...

Supply chain management information systems (SCM IS) have become vital tools for synchronising information among the customers and suppliers of a supply chain. However, recent advances in inter-enterprise systems and e-business technologies have led to a confusing variety of SCM IS alternatives, each with varying capabilities. This paper demonstrates how a business unit’s competitive strategy p...

A rich variety of version models for software con guration management (SCM) has been proposed over the years, and understanding of the basic concepts and their interrelations has been growing accordingly. In this paper, we propose a uniform version model as a common base, and discuss this in view of current SCM systems.

A single column model (SCM) is, in essence, an isolated grid column of a general circulation model (GCM). Hence, SCMs have rather demanding input data requirements, but do not suffer from problems associated with balance of a GCM. Among the initial conditions that must be used to describe the initial state of the SCM column are the vertical profile of the horizontal wind components and the vert...