It has been estimated that consumers waste $500 million a year on medical quackery and another $500 million annually on some "health foods" which have no beneficial effect. Unnecessary deaths, injuries and financial loss can be expected to continue unti1 the law requires adequate testing for safety and efficacy of products and devices before they are made available to consumers. (President John...

In this paper an approach to design information systems for traceability is proposed. The paper applies gozinto graph modelling for traceability of the goods flow. A gozinto graph represents a graphical listing of raw materials, parts, intermediates and subassemblies, which a process transforms into an end product, through a sequence of operations. Next, the graphical listing has been translate...

The aim of this study was to assess to which extent the modernisation of an anode plant had reduced occupational chemical health hazards for jobs with the highest potential of exposure. Periodical measurements of dust and gases were performed at the same workplaces using the same methods, before and after modernisation. These measurements were compared with the recommended standards. Before mod...

Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) technique has been utilized extensively in industry field these days. This paper is a detailed review which will discuss the development history of DFMA, compare some other “DFMA-like” theories, and good stories about the successful implementations of DFMA in real-word product design. 1. DFMA and its development history 1.1 Traditional design paradigm ...

ion Problems in Software Manufacture