The variability in customer demands necessitates careful monitoring of production processes. At this point, supplier selection, which is the first and most important stage production, gains importance. However, selection problem affected by many criteria with different weights depending on area. In addition, today's intense competition, such problems are too to be left intuition parties. case, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats promised Thursday to speed an economic recovery package through Congress, but vowed to rearrange President Bush’s budget proposal to ben­ efit m iddle-income Americans, not the rich. “ Democrats w ill not obstruct, but we w ill try to improve the p re s id e n t’s p acka ge ,” sa id House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., as the Budget Committee began hearings...

Abstract This paper introduces a web-platform system that performs semi-automatic compute of several risk indexes, based on the considered evaluation method (e.g., RULA—Rapid Upper Limb Assessment, REBA—Rapid Entire Body OCRA—OCcupational Repetitive Action) to support ergonomics estimation, and provides augmented analytics proactively improve ergonomic monitoring characteristics workers age, ge...

In the railway domain, an electronic interlocking is a computerised system that controls the railway signalling components (e.g. switches or signals) in order to allow a safe operation of the train traffic. Interlockings are controlled by a software logic that relies on a generic software and a set of application data particular to the station under control. The verification of the application ...

the high occurrence of upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders (uemsds) in iranian ironwork industries indicates a need to assess the risk factors of the disorders at such workplaces. in order to prevent such disorders, the occupational repetitive actions (ocra) carried out to obtain an integrated assessment of the various risk factors, classify different jobs and suggest ergonomic designing ...