Optimisation of factories, a cornerstone production engineering for the past half century, relies on formulating challenges with limited degrees freedom. In this paper, technological advances are reviewed to propose “daydreaming” framework factories that use their cognitive capacity looking into future or “foresighting”. Assessing and learning from possible eventualities enable breakthroughs ma...

Moveable factories can enable leapfrogging of fixed industrial factories, and so make immediate contributions to global goals of more resilient sustainable manufacturing. Moveable factories bring into use diverse technological advances that reduce the number, size, and weight of machines needed to carry out manufacturing operations at points of supply and/or demand. However, fixed industrial fa...

In Nigeria, the factories ACTS of 1955, came into force on 1st September 1956, the factories (Amendment) ordinance, 1458, which came into operation on 1st April, 1959 made slight changes in some section of the original Act. And again in 1984, yet more changes were made in the factories Act. The factory Act lays down in general terms the minimum standard for safety, health and welfare of factory...

There is considerable evidence that transcription does not occur homogeneously or diffusely throughout the nucleus, but rather at a number of specialized, discrete sites termed transcription factories. The factories are composed of ~4-30 RNA polymerase molecules, and are associated with many other molecules involved in transcriptional activation and mRNA processing. Some data suggest that the p...

The basic structural elements of chromatin and chromosomes are reviewed. Then a model involving only three architectural motifs, nucleosomes, chromatin loops and transcription factories/chromomeres, is presented. Loops are tied through transcription factors and RNA polymerases to factories during interphase and to the remnants of those factories, chromomeres, during mitosis. On entry into mitos...

The evolution of B-Factories is discussed, and comments are made about the common features of present-day asymmetric storage ring collider designs. * Work supported by Department of Energy contract DE-AC03-76SF00515. Presented at the 4th International Symposium on Heavy E’lavour Physics, Orsay, France, June 25-29, 1991 There was a symposium Progress on B-Factories the day before the Heavy Flavo...