In this paper we consider a production facility producing a uniform product that ships a number of di!erent package sizes to a (number of) stockpoint(s). The packaging capacity owned by the facility is "nite and the actually used capacity must be reserved sometime before actual use. Furthermore, the packaging capacity must be allocated among the di!erent package sizes, such that a target "ll ra...

Wastewater derived from food production is highly variable, depending on the specific types of food processing operations (e.g., fruit, vegetable, oils, dairy, meat, and fish). Advances in membranes technology have showed many advantages for wastewater treatment of food industry. By implementing membranes, the separated substances and clean water are often recoverable in a chemically unchanged ...

The Measurement and Control Engineering Center (MCEC), a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC), is a cooperative venture among Oklahoma State University, The University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the National Science Foundation, and numerous industrial partners. Current research efforts include two projects where opportunities for...

The lean approach is an idealizing improvement approach that has an enormous impact in the field of Operations Management. The approach is basically very process oriented and there was less attention first for planning and control, this being the profession of dealing with all kind of non-ideal manufacturing and supply-chain restrictions. During the last years, however, planning and control hav...

As the telecom market becomes more consolidated the industrial key players are forced to release product versions to the market at a growing pace in order to comply with customer requirements and market trends. The time between the initial feedback or requirement originating in the field until the product release and the application satisfying the demand is becoming more critical. Product manag...

We present the principles of Object-Process Methodology (OPM) through its application to specification of systems from the automotive, IT and aerospace industries. Domain experts and senior system architects carried out the specifications and expressed the views in this paper. This effort was part of the coursework requirements in the Object-Process Methodology on-site/distance 2000 summer seme...

This paper describes the use of a radial basis function (RBF) neural network. It approximates the process parameters for the extrusion of a rubber profile used in tyre production. After introducing the problem, we describe the RBF net algorithm and the modeling of the industrial problem. The algorithm shows good results even using only a few training samples. It turns out that the „curse of dim...

This work specifies the software process of a software engineering course project work in the form of a general process model, written in a formal software process modelling language. This general model describes activities, tools, products, responsibilities, and metrics issues. It serves as a basis for obtaining project specific plans, and for communicating the process to students, colleagues,...

In the mid-1990s, productivity growth accelerated sharply in the U.S. economy. In this paper, we identify several other industry-level changes that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of information technology (IT). We use case studies to illustrate how IT has enabled firms to more rapidly replicate improved business processes throughout a...