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Lean manufacturing

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This study applies Six-Sigma DMAIC methodology to enhance the efficiency of a manufacturing production line, specifically targeting the "gaps" between planned and actual working time. Key findings reveal that meetings, scanning, follow-up activities, walki ...

2024

Field Guide to Northern Tree-related Microhabitats: Descriptions and size limits for their inventory in boreal and hemiboreal forests of Europe and North America

Rita Bütler Sauvain

A tree-related microhabitat (abbreviated as TreM) is a morphological feature present on a tree, which is used by sometimes highly specialised species during at least one part of their life cycle. These features may serve as shelters, breeding spots, or cru ...

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland2024

Determinants of urban environmental quality in Morocco: The roles of energy consumption, urbanization, manufacturing, and financial development in SDG 13

Jérôme Chenal, Hassan Radoine

Studies on urban environmental quality are evolving emphasizing the need for policy response concerning the enactment of environmental regulations to attain sustainable development goals (SDGs), mainly target 13. Over the years, the concerns to improve urb ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Diaryl ether compound and manufacturing method from lignin

Paul Joseph Dyson, Mingyang Liu

Herein described are diaryl ether compounds having the structure (I) as well as a method for their manufacture from lignin. ...

2023

Autologous and Allogeneic Cytotherapies for Large Knee (Osteo)Chondral Defects: Manufacturing Process Benchmarking and Parallel Functional Qualification

Corinne Scaletta, Sandra Jaccoud, Philippe Abdel Sayed, Nathalie Hirt-Burri, Robin Martin, Salim Elias Darwiche, Cédric Peneveyre, Annick Jeannerat, Alexis Laurent

Cytotherapies are often necessary for the management of symptomatic large knee (osteo)-chondral defects. While autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) has been clinically used for 30 years, allogeneic cells (clinical-grade FE002 primary chondroprogenitor ...

Basel2023

New Sensing Technologies for Monitoring Machinery, Structures, and Manufacturing Processes

Luc Thévenaz, Yi Huang

Sensing is the fundamental technique for sensor data acquisition in monitoring the operation condition of the machinery, structures and manufacturing processes. In this paper, we briefly discuss the general idea and advances of various new sensing technolo ...

2023

Cost-Based Decision Support System: A Dynamic Cost Estimation of Key Performance Indicators in Manufacturing

An attempt is made to translate five generic key performance indicators (KPIs) into a continuous real-time cost function in a batch order-based manufacturing environment. The challenge of controlling and optimizing resource utilization, production efficien ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Manufacturing and toughening effects on the material properties of wind turbine blade adhesives

Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Dharun Vadugappatty Srinivasan

Hybrid adhesives can be developed using commercially available adhesive materials and customized to the required loading conditions. In this paper, SPABONDTM 820HTA (non-toughened) and SPABONDTM 840HTA (toughened) adhesives are hybridized by two strategies ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Impact of Urbanization and economic growth on environmental quality in Western Africa: What is the role of manufacturing activities and renewable energy?

Jérôme Chenal, Hassan Radoine

The countries in Western Africa have the greatest potential for renewable energy generation in the world and are likely to be vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. Unfortunately, only a few of them have tapped into this potential, as non-ren ...

2022

Ontology-based system to support industrial system design for aircraft assembly

Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng

The development of an aircraft industrial system is a complex process which faces the challenge of digital discontinuity in multidisciplinary engineering due to various interfaces between different digital tools, leading to extra development time and costs ...

ELSEVIER2022

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