For an Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management contract, collaboration between the different actors is essential from very beginning of project to consider all constraints. Working upstream reduces occurrence problems that could lead claims. As long as trust dialogue are present, disputes can be settled by agreement, but if cut off, negotiation phases over. The solution then move a...

Business process management has been a very active subject in practice, software industry and research for the last ten years. Many important contributions are in the business process modeling and its software implementation. Development of Business process modeling software and its ability of using Web Services are key factors for the popularity of the subject. Now businesses are increasingly ...

Over the last years the telecommunications industry has shifted from technology driven and incumbent operators to business driven service providers. There is a need for mature, consistent and complete business process models that are able to describe the strategic, planning and operational processes areas of an operator. This need is addressed by the NGOSS program of the TM Forum, which as emer...

As known, to finish this book, you may not need to get it at once in a day. Doing the activities along the day may make you feel so bored. If you try to force reading, you may prefer to do other entertaining activities. But, one of concepts we want you to have this book is that it will not make you feel bored. Feeling bored when reading will be only unless you don't like the book. process impro...

A large body of work exists in process industry supply chain optimisation. We describe the state of the art of research in infrastructure design, modelling and analysis and planning and scheduling, together with some industrial examples. We will consider two network design type problems in more detail and then draw some conclusions about the degree to which different classes of problem have bee...

Achieving best practice in process safety leadership and management is a goal that I firmly believe is essential for the chemicals industry, and something I am determined to help CIA member companies attain. Our industry has a strong tradition of learning lessons from one another and health and safety is no exception. Over recent years, the industry’s safety record has been a good one, in part ...

Advancements in sensors and database technologies have resulted in the collection of huge amounts of process data from chemical plants. A number of process quantities such as temperature, pressure, flow rates, level, composition, and pH can be easily measured. Chemical processes are dynamic systems and are equipped with hundreds or thousands of sensors that generate readings at regular interval...

This paper describes the problems and an adaptive solution for process control in rubber industry. We show that the human and economical benefits of an adaptive solution for the approximation of process parameters are very attractive. The modeling of the industrial problem is done by the means of artificial neural networks. For the example of the extrusion of a rubber profile in tire production...

A Design Adaptation System for machining in toolmaking (DASMT) is proposed in order to avoid the knowledge gap between product and tool designers. The focus of the presented paper on the development of the Design Adaptation System for EDM (DAS-EDM). This system helps the designer to check the viability of individual features to their machinability by EDM process. The system reveals features, wh...