The new product development (NPD) is the process by which a new product idea is conceived, investigated, taken through the design process, manufactured, marketed and serviced. In Automotive Engineering these related to the product realization process (PRP) which consists of five phases: "Plan and Define Program", "Product Design and Development", "Process Design and...

The successful implementation of many management best practices (just-in-time, total quality management, concurrent engineering, etc.) heavily depends on proper organisational communication and information management. In this paper, we address the issue of how these best practices, labelled as high-performance manufacturing (HPM) practices, can a!ect a "rm's communication structure. The paper "...

A method for optimal continuous insulin therapy for diabetes patients has been sought since the early 1970s. Although technical and medical advances have been made, a fully automated artificial pancreas to replace the functions of the natural organ is still a research aim. This review compares recent control algorithms for type 1 diabetic patients which automatically connect continuous glucose ...

In many scientific disciplines and industrial fields researchers and practitioners are often faced with complex problems when dealing with comparisons between two or more groups using classical parametric methods although real problems rarely agree with the stringent assumptions required by such methods. The NPC methodology (Pesarin, 2001) offers an innovative but well tested approach that free...

We consider the problem of estimating the finite population mean in two phase sampling when some information on auxiliary attributes is available. It is shown that the proposed estimator is more efficient than the usual mean estimator, the S. Bahl and R.K. Tuteja (Ratio and product type exponential estimators, Information and Optimization Sciences 12 (1), 159–163, 1991) estimator and a family o...

Product codes (PCs) protect a two-dimensional array of bits using short component codes. Assuming transmission over the binary symmetric channel, the decoding is commonly performed by iteratively applying bounded-distance decoding to the component codes. For this coding scheme, undetected errors in the component decoding—also known as miscorrections— significantly degrade the performance. In th...