Reducing Work-In-Process (WIP) in manufacturing systems is associated with advantages such as predictable throughput times and increased manageability. To achieve this, an abundance of WIP control methods have been developed, CONWIP1 Kanban for repetitive manufacturing, LUMS COR2 POLCA3 high-variety manufacturing. These take three types decisions, viz., release (entry to the system), authorizat...

This article reveals the main results of WIP-Chile ́s first year 2003, compares them with those of the other affiliated countries and tries to evaluate the influence of internet in people’s everyday life. In contrast to other studies about the internet in Chile, WIP is a longitudinal analysis of both users and nonusers of the web, it includes provinces as well as the capital, and it is internati...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of a weekly interdisciplinary program (WIP) consisted of educational activities, physical therapy, stretching, ergonomics, posture guidance combined with cognitive behavioral strategies and approaches to psychosocial and occupational factors in order to determine whether this intervention would be effective to short and medium-term improvement of symptoms in t...

The Warfighter’s Information Packager (WIP) is a suite of distributed components that allows users to easily obtain information from diverse heterogeneous data sources and to display the results in a user-defined

The colonisation of the land by plants was accompanied by the evolution of complex tissues and multicellular structures comprising different cell types as morphological adaptations to the terrestrial environment. Here, we show that the single WIP protein in the early-diverging land plant Marchantia polymorpha L. is required for the development of the multicellular gas exchange structure: the ai...

In the following paper, principal ideas for an incremental lexical choice process guided by generation constraints during the incremental natural language generation in the WIP system are presented. In this approach, a most adequate expression for an arbitraryly complex conceptual description is processed by examining a list of constraining generation parameters like time to produce the result,...

The nuclear envelope and the nuclear pore are important structures that both separate and selectively connect the nucleoplasm and the cytoplasm. The requirements for specific targeting of proteins to the plant nuclear envelope and nuclear pore are poorly understood. How are transmembrane-domain proteins sorted to the nuclear envelope and nuclear pore membranes? What protein-protein interactions...

This paper concerns the domain of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) and focuses on the scheduling problems encountered in these systems. We have chosen the cyclic behaviour to study this problem, to reduce its complexity. This cyclic scheduling problem, whose complexity is NP-hard in the general case, aims to minimise the work in process (WIP) to satisfy economic constraints. We first recall...

This study presents a reduction of production disturbances of a shoemaking industry through discrete event simulation approach. The study is conducted at Peacock Shoe factory found in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  This factory faces line balancing problem that becomes production disturbance for its assembly lines. Detail time study is carried out for the selected shoe model using stopwatch. Assembly ...

Gas samples and total suspended particle during work and off work time were investigated on-site and off-site electronic waste dismantling workshop (I- and O-EWDW), then compared with plastic recycling workshop (PRW) and waste incineration plant (WIP). TSP concentrations and total PBDE were 0.36-2.21 mg/m(3) and 27-2975 ng/m(3) at different workshops, respectively. BDE-47, -99, and -209 were ma...