An advisory system to support Industry 4.0 readiness improvement

An application of principal component analysis and logistic regression to facilitate production scheduling decision support system: an automotive industry case

Production planning and control (PPC) systems have to deal with rising complexity and dynamics. The complexity of planning tasks is due to some existing multiple variables and dynamic factors derived from uncertainties surrounding the PPC. Although literatures on exact scheduling algorithms, simulation approaches, and heuristic methods are extensive in production planning, they seem to be ineff...

The Sasex Fertiliser Advisory Service: over 40 Years' Service to the South African Sugar Industry

In South Africa, as in most other sugarcane growing countries, efficient fertiliser practices have contributed greatly to sugarcane productivity. The South African Sugar Association Experiment Station (SASEX) Fertiliser Advisory Service (FAS), which has been operating for more than 40 years, has played a major role in providing cost effective recommendations to cane producers and in minimising ...

Implementing Performance Measurement to support Continuous Improvement An empirical case study in construction industry

Advisory Systems to Support Decision Making

Both advisory systems and expert systems provide expertise to support decision making in a myriad of domains. Expert systems are used to solve problems in well defined, narrowly focused problem domains, whereas advisory systems are designed to support decision making in more unstructured situations which have no single correct answer. This paper provides an overview of advisory systems, which i...

An Online Advisory System to Empower Victims of Domestic Violence