This communication addresses the integration of the supplier capacity in the procurement planning process of a customer within a supply chain. Since this supply chain evolves within an uncertain environment, uncertainties may be due to an ill-known demand (prevision) and to the customer production system (scraps, imprecise processing time...). Thus, we propose a collaborative process where the ...

SAGE.2 is a production system that improves its search strategies with practice. The program incorporates four different heuristics for assigning credit and blame, and employs a discrimination process to direct its search through the space of move-proposing rules. The system has shown its generality by learning search heuristics in five different task domains. In addition to improving its searc...

This paper argues for the immediate use of Kansei engineering to help deal with the chaotic situation of poorly implemented and disconnected technologies. A theoretical criticism of the current industrial capitalism, together with the promotion of a new post-industrial form of capitalism lays the foundation for a explanation of how this transition can be achieved through a proper understanding ...

Coping with evolution in automated production systems implies cross-disciplinary challenges along the system’s life-cycle for variant-rich systems of high complexity. We provide an interdisciplinary survey on challenges and research directions in the evolution of automated production systems. After an initial discussion about the nature of automated production systems and their specific develop...

Women play a significant role in smallholder production system in Pakistan. They actively participate in various activities relating to crop and livestock production in addition to conducting their routine domestic duties often working non-stop from dawn to dusk. But the extent of their participation varies from region to region. The aim of this field survey was to investigate the involvement o...

I. Introduction Korean automobile industry achieved dramatic development from the stage of simple assembly of knocked-down parts to the country of 5th production volume in the world during last 30 years. This development might be achived by many factors inside or outside of the country compositely, but it might be impossible without the support of production system by which automobiles were pro...

SAGE is an adaptive production system model of strategy learning. The system begins a task with weak, overly general operators and uses these to find a solution to some problem by trial and error. The program then attempts to resolve the problem, using its knowledge of the solution path to determine blame when an error occurs. Once the faulty operator has been found, the system employs a proces...

A production system (PS) is a forward chaining rulebased system used to build large expert systems. Testing a PS must involve the construction of a covering set of test data but it is not clear what the meaning of covering a PS is and how a test data set can be measured according to coverage. We propose a test data coverage measure for a subset for PS with well defined semantics. We use a corre...

This paper, considers Network Failure Manufacturing System (NFPMS) and production control policy of unreliable multi-machines, multi-products with perishable items. The production control policy is based on the Hedging Point Policy (HPP). The important point in the simulation of this system is assumed that the customers who receive perishable item are placed in priority queue of the customers w...