Nowadays, customers request more variation in a company’s product assortment leading to an increased amount of parts moving around on the shop floor. To cope with this tendency, a kitting process can be implemented. As it gathers the necessary parts into a container prior to assembly, kitting enables a more cost-efficient and qualitative production. However, the performance of this preparation ...

PURPOSE This study was performed to investigate the prevalence, morphology, and calcification pattern of the elongated styloid process in the Mathura population and its relation to gender, age, and mandibular movements. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study analyzed digital panoramic radiographs of 2,706 adults. The elongated styloid process was classified with the radiographic appearance based on ...

Nowadays every business is using different quantitative measures and techniques to assess peiformance of their products! services. It is well known that different manufacturing processes very often manufacture products with quality characteristics that do not follow normal distribution. In such cases, fitting a known non-normal distribution to these quality characteristics would lead to erroneo...

As the use of web grows, organizations are increasingly choosing to use it to provide their services. The modeling process is a previous step in the systematization of a process. Due to the great number of modeling tools in existence, it is necessary to identify the information that tools allow to specify. A set of concepts is proposed to evaluate modeling tools using three levels of abstractio...

Web services composition is an emerging paradigm for enabling inter and intra organizational integration, and a landscape of languages and techniques for modeling business processes in web service based environments has emerged and is continuously being enriched. With the advent of modeling standards, different business sectors are investigating the options for modeling their workflows. In term...

Process Capability: Definition and standard evaluation: Process Capability tells you, to what extent the process is likely to satisfy the customer's wish. Standard Process Capability calculations assume 99.73% coverage of the process mapped as σ 3 ± x. Where x is the process mean σ is the process standard deviation. The standard evaluation of Process Capability Indices Cp & Cpk is given by the ...

Departamento de Informática Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero Avenida Belgrano (S) 1912 4200 Santiago del Estero Argentina [email protected] Facultad de Informática Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Campus de Montegancedo 28660 Boadilla del Monte Spain {angelica, xavier, jlmate}@fi.upm.es Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 USA mlopez@s...

New product development (NPD) is one of the most importance processes for firms to increase their profit and competitiveness. This study presents the results of a comparison study between Taiwan and Indonesia in the employment of evaluation criteria for NPD process. This study is guided by a stage-gate process to derive a structured NPD performance evaluation framework. In this study we use 20 ...

Last year, a process evaluation protocol was designed by Government of India (GOI), United Nations Childrens' Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO) consisting of a rapid qualitative evaluation by independent observers throughout the country. The process evaluation was carried out on the first day of the PPI to provide information for improving the effectiveness of the day 2 activiti...

Organisations can derive significant benefits from the use of practices, techniques, and tools from the area of business process management. Through the concomitant focus on processes they may acquire a substantial number of process models and such large collections of models require management, including support for versioning, merging, conformance checking, and retrieval. Model retrieval thus...