A current EPSRC project, product introduction process: a simulation in the extended enterprise (PIPSEE) is discussed. PIPSEE attempts to improve the execution of the product introduction process (PIP) within an extended enterprise in the aerospace sector. The modus operandi for accomplishing this has been to develop process understanding amongst a core team, spanning four different companies, t...

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is an integrated business approach to the collaborative creation, management and dissemination of engineering information throughout the extended enterprise. Concretely, PLM enables a supply chain to become much more competitive by an effective collaboration among customers, developers, suppliers and manufacturers at various lifecycle stages of a product. Our ...

the most frequent adverse effects of indomethacin like other nsaids are gastro–intestinal and central nervous system disturbances. extended release or enteric release formulations minimize these symptoms. the objective of this study was to develop an extended release pellet formulation of indomethacin by the centrifugation (rotary fluid bed granulation) or powder layering method. layered, nonpa...

A new extended (G′/G)-expansion method is presented in this paper to construct more general type and new traveling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. To illustrate the novelty and advantage of the proposed method, we solve the (3+1)-dimensional Jimbo-Miwa equation. Abundant exact traveling wave solutions of this equation is obtained, which successfully recover most of t...

This paper presents a solution for cooperation between companies that belong to a supply chain in the ceramic tile sector, where competitiveness requires constant innovation in product design. Since it is becoming ever more frequent for these companies to design products and work collaboratively within the framework of the Extended Enterprise, a need arises for a methodology for the successful ...

Many active galactic nuclei (AGN) show strong variability of the optical continuum. Since the line flux, profile shapes and intensity ratios are changing, we analyze the variability patterns and possible periodicity of Type 1 AGN NGC 5548, using the Eigenvector 1 (EV1) diagram in different variability states, taking advantage of very long term monitoring campaign data. The preliminary results s...

In this study, a comparison of solutions for tracking data from the term project obtained by using two different overlapping sets of range and range rate data was completed. The original data file contained 385 points over a time period of 18,340 seconds, or approximately 5 hours. This data was divided into two parts with some overlapping data points. The first data set covered the time period ...

AbstrAct Developing service-laden products in a virtual extended enterprise implies a wider distribution of resources and product development (PD) team members than what is the case today. In this setting, the challenge is getting a cross-disciplinary distributed team to collaborate effectively over distance using not only the tools available today, but also new tools and approaches. One such a...

This article considers a new function to propose a new lifetime model. The new model is introduced by utilizing the linear scheme of the two logarithms of cumulative hazard functions. The new model is named as new extended Weibull distribution, and is able to model data with unimodal or modified unimodal shaped failure rates. A brief explanation of the mathematical properties of the proposed mo...