Firms have been investing over $5 billion a year in recent years on new information technology and software in their manufacturing plants. In this study, we develop a conceptual model based on the theory of dynamic capabilities to study how manufacturing plants realize improvements in plant performance by leveraging plant information systems to enable implementation of advanced manufacturing ca...

The selection of advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) is an essential yet complex decision that requires careful consideration various performance criteria. In real-world applications, there are cases observations difficult to measure precisely, represented as linguistic terms, or the data need be estimated. Since growth engineering sciences has been key reason for increased utilization A...

Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Materials Science and Technology, Karlsplatz 13/308, 1040 Vienna, Austria b The Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Materials and Machine Mechanics, Račianska 75, 83102 Bratislava, Slovak Republic Branch Lab Dresden of the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing and Advanced Materials, Winterbergstrabe 28, 01277 Dresden, Germany Austrian Researc...

Kenya has started to rely significantly on technologies developed in developing countries particularly China rather than those from advanced countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan. Using data from furniture manufacturing firms in Kenya, the paper compares the investment cost and the scale characteristics of the technologies (machines and equipment) from China with those from ad...

This paper describes a framework for evaluation of spoken dialogue systems. Typically, evaluation of dialogue systems is performed in a controlled test environment with carefully selected and instructed users. However, this approach is very demanding. An alternative is to recruit a large group of users who evaluate the dialogue systems in a remote setting under virtually no supervision. Crowdso...

As the increasing use of RFID technology in manufacturing companies, the real-time production data collection is inadequate. Companies especially small and medium-sized manufacturing entities, contemplate to implement advanced planning and scheduling (APS) so as to achieve real-time production. This paper, motivated by a reallife case, proposes a real-time planning and scheduling model to reali...

This paper presents problems and issues that are within the broad scope of the IFAC Manufacturing and Instrumentation Coordinating Committee. These issues include from the technologies involved in the components to the methods used in enterprise integration. Information processing and communications are considered as key topics in all the involved technological fields. Also, the paper deals wit...

This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in AMT if available. Impact of temperature field inhomogeneities on the retrieval of atmospheric species from MIPAS IR limb emission spectra M.Kiefer, E. Arnone, A. Dudhia, M. Carlotti, E. Castelli, T. von Clarmann, B. M. Dinelli, A. Kleinert, A....