A cooperation enterprises network is defined as a group of companies which interact among themselves to exchange competences, therefore, a series of necessities from companies, which would be important in a manufacturing company, and also be in the cooperation network. Through organizational modeling, the manager has a greater view and quicker understanding of the company, which allows the inte...

The Smart editor, commonly known as MAX, was developed by Smart Communications in the USA as a front end to a translation system introduced in 1987 for such clients as CitiCorp, General Electric, and Ford Motor Company. For the Canadian Ministry of Employment, the company also developed a customized translation system for a sub-language domain. The version of MAX used by Bull ILO for controllin...

Supplier selection is one of the most important functions of a purchasing department. Since by deciding the best supplier, companies can save material costs and increase competitive advantage. However this decision becomes complicated in case of multiple suppliers, multiple conflicting criteria, and imprecise parameters. In addition the uncertainty and vagueness of the experts’ opinion is the p...

The article considers methods for studying torsional vibrations of the wheel-motor block a diesel locomotive UZTE16M. locomotives in question were modernized at structural enterprise “O’ztemiryo’lmashta’mir” (Machine building and repair Uzbekistan Railways company) under joint-stock company “O’zbekiston temir yo’llari” (Uzbekistan railways). authors developed dynamic model analysis vibrational ...

In the early 1900s, the Ford Motor Company would not have known what a T1 line was. If somebody had suggested to the senior managers at Ford that a T1 line would one day have something to do with who would manufacture the tires on Ford’s cars, they would have been shown the door – for this was a time when the Ford Motor Company bought a rubber plantation in order to control the production of ti...

The historical manufacturer of electric traction machines for trams and trolleybuses, the innovative commercial company UMEB, has initiated a joint project with National Institute Research Development Electrical Engineering ICPE-CA, to design produce new line that achieve desired power, starting torque, speed range operating temperatures. Following requests received by UMEB from integrators veh...

Line-start synchronous motors have attracted researchers’ interest as suitable replacements of asynchronous due to their high efficiency, which has been provoked by strict regulations regarding applicable efficiency classes in the EU market. The research becomes even more challenging it takes into consideration diverse rotor topologies with different magnet locations for this type motor. config...

This chapter presents an H∞ filtering framework for cloud-aided semiactive suspension system with time-varying delays. In this system, road profile information is downloaded from a cloud database to facilitate onboard estimation of suspension states. Time-varying data transmission delays are considered and assumed to be bounded. A quarter-car linear suspension model is used and an H∞ filter is ...

For over ten years, Ford Vehicle Operations has utilized an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system to assist in the creation and maintenance of process build instructions for our vehicle assembly plants. This system, known as the Direct Labor Management System, utilizes a restricted subset of English called Standard Language as a tool for the writing of process build instructions for the North Ame...