Markets are becoming increasingly dynamical and unpredictable. Trends such as the shortening of the product life cycle, individualization of customer requirements and globalization, which includes an adaptation to international markets and standards, can be observed. In result, demands for adaptable factory systems are increasingly addressed towards industrial engineering. The department of Fac...

The IT landscape of telecommunications companies is far more dynamic than IT landscapes in most other application domains. The main reason for this is the fast development of new technologies that form the basis of new telecommunications products. These products very often require new or adapted technological devices as well as IT processes for production, operation and assurance of new or exis...

Factory is an extension of Java which provides a template-based reflection mechanism for generative programming. Java classes can be parameterized by types, and the structure of the classes can be described dependent on these type parameters. Factory can address a wide range of applications and save programmers a lot of work. It is designed to integrate seamlessly with Java, to be intuitive for...

No doubt, user experience (UX) has become of high relevance within the HCI community. Within this paper, we present initial results from a qualitative study on UX in the factory context, more precisely in a semiconductor factory. We highlight the challenges of performing UX research in this particular context and the usefulness of probes for collecting feedback from operators in the factory con...

Operational-level scheduling decisions on the factory floor include the release policy and the dispatching rule. Recent work by researchers suggests that factory performance depends heavily on the release policy. Several heuristic factory release rules have been developed that generate release decisions based on the status of the bottleneck machine. The heuristic rules perform very well in redu...

Plant factory is known as the closed controlled plant production systems with the artificial lighting. Environmental factors have been concerned as the most important factors to influence quality of product in plant factory. One of the most applicable technologies for optimizing plant production system in plant factory is Infotronics. In the plant factory, Infotronics is defined as a combinatio...

BACKGROUND Microscopic fungi are the biological agent of occupational risk in the woodworking environment. Microbiological and chemical methods were used for determination of their concentration and species composition in dust. MATERIAL AND METHODS Dust was sampled in 3 factories producing furniture using different materials. The 1st factory (A) processes solid wood, the 2nd (B) - chipboards ...

The socialist factory, as the 'incubator' of the new socialist (wo)man, is a productive entry point for the study of socialist modernization and its contradictions. By outlining some theoretical and methodological insights gathered through field-research in factories in former Yugoslavia, we seek to connect the state of labour history in the Balkans to recent breakthroughs made by labour histor...

The impressive performance of current (KEKB) and recent (PEP-II) B-Factory colliders has increased interest in developing even higher luminosity B-factories. Two new designs are being developed (SuperKEKB and SuperB). Both designs plan to deliver a luminosity in the range of 1×10 cms, nearly 100 times the present B-factory level. Achieving this high luminosity requires high-current beams and sh...

The AEFTA (Application Enabler Technology for Factory Automation) experiment, which involves Digital Equipment Corporation, Politecnico di Torino and SYCO, with staff of seven, develops a factory automation product using BASEstar Open (1990) and object technology, notably OMT (Rumbaugh et al. 1991), G++ (Menga et al. 1993) and C++. The goal of the application experiment is to verify if object o...