To better handle situations where additional resources are available to carry out a task, many problems from the manufacturing industry involve “optimally” dividing a task into k smaller tasks. We consider the problem of partitioning a given set S of n points (in the plane) into k subsets, S1, . . . ,Sk, such that max16i6k |MST (Si)| is minimized. A variant of this problem arises in the shipbui...

BACKGROUND This study is the first cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of occupational health and safety (OHS) in a low-income country. It focuses on one of the largest shipbuilding companies in Bangladesh, where globally recognised Occupational Health and Safety Advisory Services (OHSAS) 18001 certification was achieved in 2012. OBJECTIVES The study examines the relative costs of implementing OHS me...

This paper examines the potential costs a country faces when it fails to develop domestic arms manufacturing. I examine these costs using the historical example of Canada’s decision to not develop domestic naval shipbuilding capacity prior to World War II. Canada’s primary naval responsibility during the war was to escort convoys between the United Kingdom and North America. However its lack of...

In a large-scale design process, designers cooperate in a complex situation where a variety of software tools run on different hardware platforms. This paper presents a data enhancement approach to integrate heterogeneous Computer-Aided Ž . Design CAD databases through the Internet. The data enhancement means topological changes in a geometric model and additional information in design semantic...