Abstract Designing customized products for customer needs is a key characteristic of machine and plant manufacturers. Their manufacturing process typically consists design phase followed by planning executing production components required in the subsequent assembly. Production delays can lead to delayed start Predicting potentially components—we call those assembly delayers—in early phases sup...

Thirty-nine years ago, I joined IEEE as a Student Member of the Quebec Chapter, with control systems my area interest. When attended very first Power & Energy Society (PES) Winter Meeting in 1990 Atlanta utility research engineer, met legends industry, like Prabha Kundur and Charles Concordia, famous professors whom admired. My immediate desire was to follow their steps. During early career, co...

Industrial manufacturing of injectable drug products presents very different and difficult challenges when compared to other industrial manufacturing applications. In order to enhance patient safety and ensure product quality the Pharmaceutical Industry has been implementing systems called Advanced Aseptic Processing (AAP) systems. Advanced Aseptic Processing systems utilize advanced forms of a...

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) increasingly try to grow their profit margins by employing “error traffic monetization,” the practice of redirecting customers whose DNS lookups fail to advertisement-oriented Web servers. A small industry of companies provides the associated machinery for ISPs to engage in this monetization, with the companies often participating in operating the service as we...

Automobiles, planes, ships, machinery, facades and the interior of buildings, furniture, household appliances, magazines, posters and data storage devices: The list of products covered with lacquers and paints is sheer endless. In 2012 about 2.6 million tons of lacquer, paint and printing ink were produced in Germany (VdL 2013). This shows how important these products are in our daily lives. Su...

The Companhia Siderúrgica Paulista – COSIPA is an integrated steel plant of the Usiminas System located in the municipality of Cubatão, in the coastal region of the São Paulo state, Brazil. This works produces 4.5 millions tons of steel per year; 1.0 million tons of this output are delivered as rolled plates, which meet a wide range of uses, such as those in agricultural implements, industrial ...

The study of innovation performance helps to complete the measure of development ability of venture enterprise for college students. The study builds models of Stochastic Frontier Analysis on innovation performance of college students’ venture enterprise by setting up Variable quantity and putting forward a hypothesis. This paper sampled 20 historical data about college students’ venture enterp...