Making Production More Efficient Using Analysis and Continuous Improvement Methods

Making LCA More Efficient

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has gained attention because it enables quantitative evaluation of the burden a product places on the environment. However, acceptance of LCA has proceeded slowly because a large amount of work is required to gather the environmental burden data used in the evaluation. To shorten this work time, we utilize readily-accessible databases both internal and external to th...

Making Abduction More Efficient

Introduct ion The TACITUS system uses a cost-based abduction scheme for finding and choosing among possible interpretations for natural language texts. Ordinary Prologstyle, backchaining deduction is augmented with the capability of making assumptions and of factoring two goal literals that are unifiable (see Hobbs et al., 1988). Deduction is combinatorially explosive, and since the abduction s...

Efficient Methods for continuous and discrete shape analysis

Making USB a More Energy-Efficient Interconnect

The ’64 Mustang is a classic: a car that people still talk and reminisce about 44 years on. Do you mess with success and change a winning formula? No, but you do update a design to fix weaknesses in the original (better audio, air-conditioning, reliability, etc.) and to address new consumer desires as the market changes (efficient engines to address fuel economy, catalytic converters to address...

Making Multicloud Application Integration More Efficient

To meet ever-more-complex business-critical requirements, organizations across industries are adopting multi-core technologies and applications. Given rising expectations for deep, rich and fully integrated functionality, the cloud is increasingly being counted on as the operational fabric with which to hold all this compute power together. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2017, 50% of global ...