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in the hot compression test friction has a detrimental influence on the flow stress through the process and therefore, correcting the deformation curve for real behavior is very important for both researchers and engineers. in this study, a series of compression tests were simulated using abaqus software. in this study, it has been employed the taguchi method to design experiments by the factor...

the existing studies of threshing process of combine harvesters adopt the assumption of constant mass, which is contradictory to the phenomenon of separation of grains and short stalks in actual threshing process. therefore, the characteristics of threshing and separation are not accurately described. aiming at this problem, this study established the tangential-longitudinal threshing and separ...

In this supplementary document, we first present additional experiments to show the convergence of training in Section 1.1 and compare the performance of exact matching against a frequently used approximate nearest neighbour search library in Section 1.2. We then show the speed-ups we gain by the strided implementation of the patch-based dilated convolutions in Section 2.1. We compare the runti...

Bullwhip costs money, wastes resources, and loses customers. So drawing on a basis of analytical, simulation and experiential techniques, the authors’ present four material flow principles which can be recommended as strategies to reduce the bullwhip effect. A real-world case study from the precision mechanical engineering sector is employed to illustrate the effect of rapid response manufactur...

This paper discusses the negative impact of errors in the time datation of data as they are gathered accross a distributed newtork of sensors to be treated by a centralized monitoring algorithm. An example of flow monitoring serves as basis for the analysis. Using a simple probability model, we establish the variance of an estimator serving for loss detection and show how it varies with the tim...

Supervisors in a less-than-truckload freight terminal establish material flows inside the terminal by assigning incoming trailers to open doors. A common scheduling strategy is to look ahead into the queue of incoming trailers and assign them to doors to minimize worker travel. We develop a model of the resulting material flows and use it to construct layouts that exploit this type of schedulin...