Decisions in the current and future mining environment are increasingly tied to reducing operating costs. Improving performance, productivity and profitability is crucial. Production, ancillary, plant and shipping equipment need to be monitored and controlled by online systems delivering production statistics and real-time information. Traditional systems currently in use today, operate in an i...

The Internet revolution has led to a massive increase in data traffic. This trend is set to continue; over the next few years and it is likely that 95% of all communication traffic will shift to data. The need to support high bandwidth traffic has required that equipment performance grow at an exponential rate. WAN equipment which only two years ago operated at speeds of OC-48 (2.5Gbps) now run...

The habitation, development, and exploration of lunar and martian environments will require a human and equipment surface transport vehicle. Although a human surface transport vehicle was designed and used on the Apollo missions, the capabilities required to support the build-up, maintenance, and exploration activities associated with a prolonged stay on the lunar and martian surfaces will requ...

Manufacturers have the challenge to increase productivity given complex manufacturing environments. A source that provides substantial levels of productivity is the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) metric, which is an indicator to improve not only equipment utilization; but also the overall manufacturing operations, because of the valuable information that comes from the availability, perf...

The need for more performance from computer equipment in data centers has driven the power consumed to levels that are straining thermal management in the centers. When the computer industry switched from bipolar to CMOS transistors in the early 1990s, low-power CMOS technology was expected to resolve all problems associated with power and heat. However, equipment power consumption with CMOS ha...

W study the demand forecast-sharing process between a buyer of customized production equipment and a set of equipment suppliers. Based on a large data collection we undertook in the semiconductor equipment supply chain, we empirically investigate the relationship between the buyer’s forecasting behavior and the supplier’s delivery performance. The buyer’s forecasting behavior is characterized b...