Given the dynamism of markets and economic growth, nowadays companies must look for mechanisms that allow them to develop new strategies compete successfully. The objective this work is a statistical analysis complexity manufacturing system. methodological approach starts with data obtained through Likert technique, identifying characteristics associated high complexity, consequently, an inquir...

The developments in information technology and multimedia give new opportunities to increase the efficiency and quality of skills education. This paper presents three applications developed in the Netherlands to enhance professional skills learning in different areas of psychology: (1) BioPsy, an application developed to teach and train the technical and practical backgrounds for conducting bio...

The management and control of material flow forms the core of manufacturing execution systems (MES) in the petrochemical industry. The bottleneck in the application of MES is the ability to match the material-flow model with the production processes. A dynamic material-flow model is proposed in this paper after an analysis of the material-flow characteristics of the production process in a petr...

This paper reviews a set of studies designed to test the hypothesis that the presence of animated pedagogical agents in multimedia environments can promote deep learning. This was done by first comparing the learning and motivational outcomes of students who learned in the context of social-agency to students who learned in a more traditional text and graphics context. Second, the particular fe...

Connie Strittmatter is Head Librarian, Access Services & Collection Maintenance in Boston College University Libraries, e-mail: [email protected]; Virginia K. Bratton is Assistant Professor in the College of Business at Montana State University, e-mail: [email protected]. ©2014 Connie Strittmatter and Virginia K. Bratton, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses...

Implementing a highly flexible manufacturing approach, like mass customization manufacturing, demands an integrated design and simulation system. This system must be able to cope with difficult issues such as a high level of product variety, uncertainty in the product demand forecast, and the reconfiguration of manufacturing resources to support the introduction and integration of new manufactu...