Due to Taiwan join WTO and quotas cancellation, textile goods faced global competition. With the short life cycle of the textile market and demand uncertainty in market, it leads to increasing pressure on the textile industry. Brand vendors start to search partners and hope to solve these problems through information sharing and collaboration. After sixty-year’s development, textile industry in...

BACKGROUND: BPD is a serious mental illness in which psychotherapy has been shown to improve patient outcomes and reduce the use of health services. In most studies of psychotherapy, lower use of health services has been taken to imply lower health service costs. However, the costs of psychotherapy can offset any cost savings due to reduced use of other health services. AIMS OF THE STUDY: To es...

PURPOSE To estimate the economic impact of a TegadermTM chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) gel dressing compared with a standard intravenous (i.v.) dressing (defined as non-antimicrobial transparent film dressing), used for insertion site care of short-term central venous and arterial catheters (intravascular catheters) in adult critical care patients using a cost-consequence model populated with da...

Published proposals and solutions for building software product families rely on some of the most complex, resource intensive, capital intensive, and intellectually demanding software engineering practices developed to date[1,2,6]. For most software engineering organizations, the complexity, cost, and perceived risk are a prohibitive barrier for implementing formal software product family pract...

Cell culture seed trains-the generation of a sufficient viable cell number for the inoculation of the production scale bioreactor, starting from incubator scale-are time- and cost-intensive. Accordingly, a seed train offers potential for optimization regarding its layout and the corresponding proceedings. A tool has been developed to determine the optimal points in time for cell passaging from ...

Abstract A Swarm Production System (SPS) aims to be an agile and resilient Reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) paradigm that incorporates mobile workstations transport robots on the factory production floor. This paper primarily focuses SPS’s initial but recurring planning stage termed topology planning, which dynamically changes throughout runtime with spatially adaptive transporters han...

The rapid respond to marketplace in apparel logistics is objective requirement of market competition to modern clothing enterprises. Apparel logistics emphasize the precision and timeliness of data information strongly, therefore, data mining technology should be used to analyze the data information, and thus support the smooth functioning of the entire apparel logistics. Data mining technology...

The management of solid waste has become an urgent problem in nations with a great population density. Accordingly, waste reduction through source reduction and recycling has become increasingly important. Our purpose is to show how prevention, recycling and disposal of waste could be part of a theory of the firm. We first derive efficient production functions from production processes with was...

Motivated by a problem faced by a large manufacturer of a consumer product, we explore the interaction between production planning and capacity acquisition decisions in environments with demand growth. We study a firm producing multiple items in a multiperiod environment where demand for items is known but varies over time with a long-term growth and possible short-term fluctuations. The produc...