Factory operations have been modeled for years to understand the relationship between the different design and policy factors and the performance measures of interest. The increasing awareness of the need to manage factories as a link in the supply chain places a corresponding requirement for an enhanced approach for factory modeling. This paper describes the modeling of a computer assembly fac...

Das Blue Print Plant Model ist ein integriertes Unternehmensmodell, welches Objekte und deren Parameter einer Fabrik mit Prozessen sowie den Berechnungs- Auslegungsverfahren verbindet. Dabei werden Partikularmodelle, wie zum Beispiel Wirtschaftlichkeitsanalysen, flexibel eingebunden. Die integrierte Betrachtung unterstützt eine Datendurchgängigkeit, der sich Medienbrüche entlang Planungsphasen ...

This paper reflects the current work on the integration of Time Management in the Digital Factory. To eliminate deficits in the integration of leading planning tools, a methodical approach was established in order to develop application protocols based on a systematic basis for the Digital Factory. Therefore, a joint project with both industrial and research partners has been initiated. Beside ...

Estimating the job cycle time is very important for the control of a factory. However, the uncertainty in the job cycle time is not easy to deal with. In order to effectively estimate the job cycle time in a wafer fabrication factory, a group of distributed sensors are used in this study. In the proposed methodology, each sensor monitors the factory conditions, and uses a fuzzy neural network t...

This chapter describes the application of the RAP/AOR methodology proposed by Taveter and Wagner (2005, 2006) to the modeling and simulation of a real ceramics factory. The chapter addresses the modeling of the ceramics factory from the interaction, information, and behavior aspects of the methodology. The chapter also discusses the simulation of the manufacturing processes of the ceramics fact...

Recent results on B mixing and CP violation from the B-factory experiments, BABAR at PEP-II and Belle at KEK-B, are summarized. A discussion of CP violation is then presented which concentrates on the CP parameter sin2β (also known as sin2φ1). The most recent measurements of this parameter from B-factory data yield sin2β = 0.741± 0.067 (stat)± 0.033 (syst) (BaBar) sin2φ1 = 0.719± 0.072 (stat)± ...

Software Factories pose a paradigm shift that promises to turn application assembly more cost e ective through systematic reuse. These advances in software industrialization have however reduced the cost of coding applications at the expense of increasing assembling complexity, i.e., the process of coming up with the nal end application. To alleviate this problem, we advocate for a new discipli...

This paper discusses broad features of the introduction of television in two Swampy Cree communities on the west coast of James Bay in northern Ontario, Canada. The first of these communities is Fort Albany, a village of about 580 Swampy Cree Indians located approximately 100 miles north of Moosonee and Moose Factory, Ontario. Fort Albany was founded between 1675 and 1679 as the third Hudson's ...

Analysis of a -new, higher resolution data set from the Heavy Nuclei Experiment on the HEA0-3 spacecraft has yielded the cosmic ray abundances relative to iron of oddeven element pairs with atomic number, Z, in the range 33sZs60. The abundances are consistent 'Yith a solar-system source provided an allowance is made for a source fraetionation based on first ionization potential (FIP). However, ...

The Next Generation Grids (NGG) expert group has pioneered the vision of “Invisible Grid” whereby the complexity of Grid systems and architectures is hidden to both developers and users. In this new vision, the Grid has a different role: it will not more provide a virtual computing environment but it will be the basis of a more complex service oriented, knowledge-based and collaborative environ...