In many industrial experiments involving lifetimes of machines or units, experiments have to be terminated early or the number of experiments must be limited due to a variety of circumstances (e.g. when expensive, etc.) the samples that arise from such experiments are called censored data. Cohen (1991) was one of the earliest to study a more general censoring scheme called progressive censor...

background: in addition to the various human environmental issues, environmental hazards due to the industrial waste mismanagement are one of the country's major problems. this especially is more important in the provinces such as bakhtiari province where there have been concentration and diversity of the natural resources and a rapid growth of technology and industry in the recent years. metho...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper aims to offer new theoretical and empirical insights into power dynamics in an industrial supplier workshop setting. Theoretically, it advances an institutional perspective on supplier workshops as an important venue in managing, preserving and instituting industrial market power. Based on a detailed ethnographic analysis of an industrial workshop setting, this ...

Brazil’s economy continues the expansion that began in the last quarter of 1999. The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics has reported that GDP, relative to 1999, grew 3.08% during the first quarter. The industrial sector was especially strong. Led by autos and capital goods products, the sector’s output jumped some 8%. Moreover, automobile production in May reached 150,000 units, th...

This paper investigates the implementation and design of a fuzzy system on an industrial controller. Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are key devices used in many industrial processes. Most of the time they implement discrete control functions involving sequential control, but the availability of basic features like arithmetic operations, floating point units etc. allow for more complex al...

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The Environmental Science and Technology Department engage in research to improve the scientific basis tor new methods in industrial and agricultural production. Through basic and applied research in chemistry, biology and ecology the department aspires to develop methods and technology tor the future industrial and agricultural production exerting less stress and strain on the environment. The...

The partner units problem (PUP) is an acknowledged hard benchmark problem for the Logic Programming community with various industrial application fields like surveillance, electrical engineering, computer networks or railway safety systems. However, computational complexity remained widely unclear so far. In this paper we provide all missing complexity results making the PUP better exploitable ...

the geomorphology is an important branch of natural geography that its goal is promotion of human life, ultimately. the geomorphic processes have considerable impact on human life, and opposing, human activities and behaviors have its impacts on the geomorphologic units and geomorphologic processes, enhancing the above argument. the gilan county, at its geographic position; embraced by two stru...

In the context of a global competitive environment, industrial companies have to pursue continuous performance improvement, leading to the popularity of Lean Manufacturing throughout the world. Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is considered the relevant performance measurement tool, which is able to take into account a machine’s availability, performance and quality. Therefore, many firms ...