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Age-Differentiated Work Systems
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Christopher Marc Schlick |
The disproportionate aging of the population of working age in many nations around the world is a unique occurrence in the history of humankind. In the light of demographic change, it is becoming inc… |
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The Anticipation of Converging Industries
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Clive-Steven Curran |
The blurring of boundaries between hitherto distinct scientific disciplines, technologies or markets is a common and powerful phenomenon. Subjects of this convergence often change consumer behaviours… |
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CIRP Design 2012
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Amaresh Chakrabarti |
<p>During its life cycle, a product produces waste that is over 20 times its weight. As such it is critical to develop products that are sustainable. Currently product development processes lack high… |
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The Contribution of Technology to Added Value
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António S.C. Fernandes |
There is a wide consensus that introduction of technology to the production process contributes to an overall economic value, however, confusion between technology, knowledge and capital often makes … |
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Emotional Engineering vol. 2
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Shuichi Fukuda |
In an age of increasing complexity, diversification and change, customers expect services that cater to their needs and to their tastes. Emotional Engineering vol 2. describes how their expectations … |
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Engineering Economics and Finance for Transportation Infrastructure
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Elena S. Prassas |
Transportation infrastructure is often referred to as society’s bloodstream. It allows for the movement of people and goods to provide the ability to optimize the production and distribution of good… |
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Exergy
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Silvio de Oliveira Júnior |
<p>Bridging the gap between concepts derived from Second Law of Thermodynamics and their application to Engineering practice, the property exergy and the exergy balance can be a tool for analyzing an… |
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LISS 2012
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Zhenji Zhang |
Information and communication technology has helped to provide a more effective network infrastructure and development platform for logistics and service operations. In order to meet the needs of con… |
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Mass Customization and Sustainability
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Claudio R. Boër |
To adapt to global competitive pressures, manufacturers must develop methods and enabling technologies towards a personalized, customer oriented and sustainable manufacturing. Mass Customization and … |
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Megacity Mobility Culture
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<p>What determines how cities move on? The ever-increasing challenges to urban mobility come in many forms, and approaches to address them range from the technically ingenious to attempts to change t… |
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Multi-Agent Based Beam Search for Real-Time Production Scheduling and Control
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Shu Gang Kang |
<p>The Multi-Agent Based Beam Search (MABBS) method systematically integrates four major requirements of manufacturing production - <i>representation capability</i>, <i>solution quality</i>, <i>compu… |
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New Business Models and Value Creation: A Service Science Perspective
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Lino Cinquini |
The contemporary economic landscape features the prevalence of the service sector in economic systems, the pervasive servitisation of manufacturing, innovations in traditional business models and new… |
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Online Scheduling in Manufacturing
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Haruhiko Suwa |
<p><p><p>Online scheduling is recognized as the crucial decision-making process of production control at a phase of “being in production" according to the released shop floor schedule. Online schedul… |
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Optimal Control and Optimization of Stochastic Supply Chain Systems
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Dong-Ping Song |
<body><p class="BodyFirst"><font size="2"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Optimal Control and Optimization of Stochastic Supply Chain Systems</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> examines its subject in the context o… |
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Profiting from Innovation in China
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Oliver Gassmann |
China is dramatically catching up and is rapidly becoming a leading technological innovator on the global scale. The number of Chinese firms with global ambitions is growing fast, more and more techn… |
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Robust Manufacturing Control
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Katja Windt |
<p>This contributed volume collects research papers, presented at the CIRP Sponsored Conference<b> Robust Manufacturing Control: Innovative and Interdisciplinary Approaches for Global Networks</b> (R… |
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Scheduling computer and manufacturing processes
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Jacek Błażewicz |
This book provides a theoretical and application oriented analysis of deterministic scheduling problems arising in computer and manufacturing environments. In such systems processors (machines) and p… |
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Strategic Planning Decisions in the High Tech Industry
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Dilek Cetindamar |
The scale and complexity of research and practices of open innovation mandate a correspondingly sophisticated form of decision making. Strategic Planning Decisions brings together a number of tools t… |
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Supply Chain Collaboration
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Mei Cao |
<p>To survive and thrive in the competition, firms have strived to achieve greater supply chain collaboration to leverage the resources and knowledge of suppliers and customers. Internet based techn… |
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Sustainable Logistics
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Wolf-Rüdiger Bretzke |
Currently the notion of "sustainability" is used in an inflationary manner. Therefore the authors start with a definition which is stable to serve as an anchor for further research as well as for dis… |
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