Manufacturing processes are required to adapt to change as businesses respond to global competition. The paper describes a framework for building distributed manufacturing processes based on an integrating infrastructure. Through a decomposition based on application function, application interoperation and application interaction, proposals are made for structuring the integration software requ...

Semiconductor manufacturing industry has elevated cost in productions. Improvement of production efficiency is always an important goal for manufacturers. Run-to-run control has been widely used in batch manufacturing processes to reduce variations. Threaded exponentially weighted moving average (threaded-EWMA) run-to-run control is an important and stable control scheme. In this paper, we stud...

Upper limbs repetitive tasks are one of the main sources of risk for the workers of the manufacturing industries and the standards ISO 11228-3 and EN 1005-5 addressed this issue since 2007. EAWS (European Assembly Worksheet) is a 1st level ergonomic risk assessment method and it provides in its 4th section a score to measure the load level for the upper limbs based on a traffic light scheme. Ac...

E-CIM – Tautologie oder Herausforderung? Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage befaßt sich der Autor kritisch mit der unternehmensübergreifenden Kooperation autonomer Organisationseinheiten. Entgegen der in der Vergangenheit oftmals euphorischen Betrachtung virtueller Organisationen beschreibt das vorliegende Buch ein praxisorientiertes Konzept, das den Leser auffordert, sich in der Zeit nach dem E-Bus...

This empirical study compares the advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) investment, the manufacturing infrastructure investment, and the interaction effect between these two types of investments using data from a sample of firms in Singapore and Sweden. The results suggest that the interaction of AMT investment and manufacturing infrastructure investment has a positive impact on the firm prof...

We study multi-unit double auctions accepting bids with indivisibility constraints. We propose different price-quote policies and study their influence on the efficiency of market-based allocation. Using a reconfigurable manufacturing scenario where agents trade large quantities of multiple goods, we demonstrate potential benefits of supporting indivisibility constraints in bidding. These benef...

Here we prove the existence of sheaf cohomology theory in arbitrary o-minimal structures. ∗With partial support from the FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia), program POCTI (Portugal/FEDER-EU) and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. †Supported by an EPSRC studentship. ‡Supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from CMAF, Universidade de Lisboa. MSC: 03C64; 55N30.

This study compared the relationship between learning style preferences and learner success of students in an online graduate level instructional design course with an equivalent face-to-face course. Comparisons included motivation maintenance, task engagement, and cognitive controls. Results revealed significant relationships between preferences and course success on five constructs for the fa...

"Process Re-engineering" is a concept that has been in operation in the manufacturing industry for a number of years. Often, it involves moving an organisation or industry away from its traditionally functional base to process based structures. It is however a relatively new concept in the UK construction industry. This paper will explore the concept of process re-engineering, evaluate its oppo...