THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTS. By Oscar Kempthorne. New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1952. 631 pp. $8.50. This book by a teacher of statistics (as well as a consultant for \"experimenters\") is a comprehensive study of the philosophical background for the statistical design of experiment. It is necessary to have some facility with algebraic notation and manipulation to be able to use the volume intelligently. The problems are presented from the theoretical point of view, without such practical examples as would be helpful for those not acquainted with mathematics. The mathematical justification for the techniques is given. As a somewhat advanced treatment of the design and analysis of experiments, this volume will be interesting and helpful for many who approach statistics theoretically as well as practically. With emphasis on the \"why,\" and with description given broadly, the author relates the subject matter to the general theory of statistics and to the general problem of experimental inference. MARGARET J. ROBERTSON

The Design and Analysis of Experiments

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Reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chain: A comprehensive review to explore the future

Environmentally conscious manufacturing and product recovery (ECMPRO): A review of the state of the art

A review on the application of deep learning in system health management

Sustainability is and will be a crucial issue for the present and future generations. The current assumption that natural resources are infinite and that the regenerative capacity of the environment is able to compensate for all human action is no longer acceptable. Hence, sustainability issues will influence all organisational aspects of the human life, from the economical, political, social and environmental points of view. The reason is simple: until now, all human activities have been based on the paradigm of unlimited resources and unlimited world's capacity for regeneration; from now on, the awareness of the termination of this assumption means that all related behavioural models must be changed. This is a very impressive objective embracing all fields of culture, economy, technology and much more. A continuing effort, together with a reasonable time span, will be required to pursue this goal. Fortunately, nature and the environment are capable of self-regulation and will give man a chance to recove...

Sustainable manufacturing: trends and research challenges

On condition based maintenance policy

Research issues on closed-loop PLM

Parking problem becomes one of major issues in the city transportation management since the spatial resource of a city is limited and the parking cost is expensive. Lots of cars on the road should spend unnecessary time and consume energy during searching for parking due to limited parking space. To cope with these limitations and give more intelligent solutions to drivers in the selection of parking facility, this study proposes a smart parking guidance algorithm. The proposed algorithm supports drivers to find the most appropriate parking facility considering real-time status of parking facilities in a city. To suggest the most suitable parking facility, several factors such as driving distance to the guided parking facility, walking distance from the guided parking facility to destination, expected parking cost, and traffic congestion due to parking guidance, are considered in the proposed algorithm. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, simulation tests have been carried out. The proposed algorithm helps to maximize the utilization of space resources of a city, and reduce unnecessary energy consumption and CO2 emission of wandering cars since it is designed to control the utilization of parking facility efficiently and reduce traffic congestion due to parking space search.

A study on smart parking guidance algorithm

This paper focuses on lot release control and scheduling problems in a semiconductor wafer fab producing multiple products that have different due dates and different process flows. For lot release control, it is necessary to determine the type of a wafer lot and the time to release wafers into the wafer fab, while it is necessary to determine sequences of processing waiting lots in front of workstations for lot scheduling. New dispatching rules are developed for lot release control and scheduling considering special features of the wafer fabrication process. Simulation experiments are carried out to test the dispatching rules. Results show that lot release control and lot scheduling at photolithography workstations are more important than scheduling at other workstations. Also, it is shown that new dispatching rules work better in terms of tardiness of orders than existing rules such as the EDD (earliest due date) rule and other well-known dispatching rules for multimachine scheduling.

Due-date based scheduling and control policies in a multiproduct semiconductor wafer fabrication facility

This study introduces an overall framework for radio frequency identification (RFID) applications in product lifecycle management (PLM). Recently, with emerging technologies related to product identification and wireless mobile tele-communication, PLM provides a new environment that enables lifecycle actors to gather and analyse product lifecycle information, and make efficient decisions without spatial and temporal constraints. However, previous research has paid little attention to how to apply the emerging technologies into PLM. To cope with this limitation, in the current study, RFID applications in PLM are dealt with from technical and business viewpoints. To this end, an overall framework for RFID applications in PLM is proposed. It contains the definition of a product embedded information device (PEID) that uses RFID technology, its specification and operation scenarios for each application. Furthermore, application issues and their overall procedures are introduced for each lifecycle phase.

Hong-Bae Jun

Papers

On condition based maintenance policy

Research issues on closed-loop PLM

A study on smart parking guidance algorithm

Due-date based scheduling and control policies in a multiproduct semiconductor wafer fabrication facility

A framework for RFID applications in product lifecycle management