This article presents an infrastructure, called the experience factory, aimed at capitalization and reuse of life cycle experience and products. The experience factory is a logical and physical organization, and its activities are independent from the ones of the development organization. The activities of the development organization and of the experience factory can be outlined in the followi...

The mathematical models used to compute the materials balance a t the various stations in a sugar factory are described and the overall logic of , the computer program to prepare a factory materials balance is discussed. The use of the program to study the effect on the factory of varying one process parameter is illustrated and other applications of the program are discussed.

OBJECTIVES After a plastic reprocessing factory began to operate in August 2004, the residents around the factory in Neyagawa, Osaka, Japan, began to complain of symptoms. Therefore, we conducted an exposure assessment and a population-based epidemiological study in 2006. METHODS To assess exposure, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and total VOCs were measured at two locations in the vicinit...

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...