The recent development of the Colombian legislation, have been identified the need to develop protective clothing to work according to specifications from the work done and in compliance with international standards. These involve the development and design of new strategies and measures for work clothing design. In this study we analyzes the activities of the workers in the electrical sector, ...

The development of safety critical systems is guided by standards. Many standards require the development of a safety case to demonstrate the acceptability of Safety Critical Systems. The safety case must provide confidence that the system is acceptably safe to operate. For system components where it is not possible to quantify the associated risks (e.g. software), current standards in the aero...

An upcoming industrial IoT revolution, supposedly led by the introduction of embedded sensing and computing, seamless communication and massive data analytics within industrial processes [1], seems unquestionable today. Multiple technologies are being developed, and huge marketing efforts are being made to position solutions in this industrial landscape. However, we have observed that industria...

Nowadays, electricity is one of the most significant infrastructures required for economic development of countries. Hence, predicting electricity demand is very important especially in industry as a major electricity-consuming sector. The majority of studies under the subject of electricity demand have been performed by econometrics and it is not possible to investigate the effect of different...

An industrial sector uses more energy than any other end-use sectors and currently this sector is consuming about 37% of the world’s total delivered energy. Energy is consumed in the industrial sector by a diverse group of industries includingmanufacturing, agriculture, mining, and construction and for a wide range of activities, such as processing and assembly, space conditioning, and lighting...

Title of dissertation: COMPETING OR COLLABORATING SIBLINGS? AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL AND TRADE POLICIES Gunjan Sharma, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor Roger Betancourt Department of Economics This dissertation investigates the relationship between industrial and trade policies and their impact on firm-level incentives to become more ...

Over the past few decades, cross-sector partnerships that include the private sector have become an increasingly accepted practice in public health, particularly in efforts to address infectious disease in low and middle income countries. Now they are becoming a popular tool in efforts to reduce and prevent obesity and the epidemic of non-communicable disease. Partnering with business presents ...

in a complex and volatile environment of the supply chain, any attempt to reduce the risks may increase or decrease other risks; thus, achieving an overall picture of the risks of supply chain and relationships between them are necessary and will lead to more effective and comprehensive strategy to response to risks. the purpose of this paper is identifying and extracting the potential risks of...

The article studies the problem of assessing risks introducing end-to-end digital technologies in industry. Theoretical foundations concept and their types are considered. trends practices implementation domestic companies industrial sector economy analyzed. A classification at enterprises has been developed, which includes two levels risks: general associated with digitalization process as a w...