The success that banks have had deploying remote deposit capture has been tremendous over the past few years. The ability to decrease manual handling of checks and increases deposit breadth has certainly been a positive in what otherwise has not been the greatest of times in the banking community. However, as with any success along comes scrutiny. Echoes from the halls of Congress of not enough...

This paper presents the findings of a study with a Unilever bottle-filling plant and its key bottle supplier, ALPLA. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the complexity associated with before and after integration. The nature of the complexity alters as the supplier-customer relationship changes, in this case from pre-integration to post-integration system. The areas in which complexity ...

Abstract Applying machine learning methods to improve the efficiency of complex manufacturing processes, such as material handling, can be challenging. The interconnectedness multiple components that make up real-world processes and typically very large number variables required specify procedures plans within them combine it difficult map details a formal mathematical representation suitable f...

The globalization of the Indian economy has thrown a great challenge to the Indian industries in respect of productivity, quality, cost, delivery etc. Achieving success• the global market has required fundamental shift in the way business is conducted and has dramatically affected virtually every aspect of process industry. The internal manufacturing process and supporting infrastructure should...

Human-robot collaborative systems (HRCS) have the potential to dramatically change many aspects of surgery, manufacturing, hazardous-material handling, and other dextrous tasks. We are particularly interested in precise manipulation tasks, which are typically performed under an admittance-control regime, where the controlled velocity is proportional to the user-applied force. During precise fas...

Material handling systems consist of discrete or continuous resources to move entities from one location to another. They are more common in manufacturing systems compared to service systems. Material movement occurs everywhere in a factory or warehouse—before, during, and after processing. Apple (1977) notes that material handling can account for up to 80 percent of production activity. Althou...