During high growth era companies are making technical progress in automation and centralization of the plants, which needs large amount of manual work to maintain the automation systems. The strategy of maintaining the equipment of a plant is crucial for the effectiveness of manufacturing. Total productive maintenance (TPM) is a maintenance program, which involves concepts for maintaining plant...

Efficiency and profitability in plant operation

Model predictive control (MPC) is currently the most widely implemented advanced process control technology for petroleum refineries and chemical plants. Based on the present state of the art in theory and practice, MPC works well for processes operating over a narrow range of conditions. However, processes frequently have to operate over a wide range of conditions, for reasons such as varying ...

The work with software processes has become an entire field of its own. It should be considered a process, where the product is process improvement and maintenance service to the host organization. The process professionals should also strive towards good product engineering practices in their work, apply the same quality criteria to their processes, and maintain and improve their own work prac...

We examine a vertically differentiated duopoly where firms invest in process and product innovation and then compete in prices under full market coverage. We show that (i) process and product innovation are complements (substitutes) for the low-quality (high-quality) firm; (ii) the firm which is initially more efficient invests more than the rival in process innovation; (iii) if the initial dif...

This case study describes the method of process landscaping by example of a project in which the business processes of a company from the residential trade and industry were analyzed regarding their mobile potential. This analysis was conducted with the aim to organize these processes more efficiently in order to realize cost savings. Therefore a verification was required, whether the use of mo...

The use of statistical process control has gained a major importance in the last years due to very good results that is provides and due the ease interpretation of the results, even by the people who are not specialists in the field. An essential quality, that differs the statistical process control to the other quality analysis statistical methods is that it examines the process in all stages,...

Initiating and conducting empirical case studies in industry are non-trivial tasks. There are many pitfalls, and many researchers have failed in their research. For example, there is the risk that the results are not particularly useful for the IT organization. As a result, the IT organization will be reluctant to cooperate with the researchers again. The purpose of this paper is to share the a...

The Industry Foundation Classes, IFC, are developed by the International Alliance for Interoperability, IAI, to provide for data exchange and sharing capabilities for the building and construction sector of the industry. Since the foundation of the IAI back in 1995 two releases of IFC had already been published and the third release is on its way. Many prototype implementations by leading softw...

introduction Tannery waste management is a serious problem for tanning and leather industry facilities. Those branches generate large quantities of waste, consume substantial amounts of energy and in the general opinion are considered „air polluters”. The methods of tannery waste management applied thus far are insufficient, thus considerable portions of such waste are stored on landfills. The ...