Experimental constraints on fluid-rock reactions during incipient serpentinization of harzburgite
Klein, Frieder
2014-10-20
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The purpose of this research is to develop Benefits, Costs, and Financial Risks (CoBeFR) model to show and measure the impact of ERP related decisions, such as degree of business process re-engineering and the level of hardware investment, on the organisational financial value (OFV). OFV is based on current time value of money (i.e. interest rate), financial risk, and net cash flows emerged from ERP system. Financial risk, the sensitivity of the organisation net profit to changes in market conditions, is affected by organisational adoption of ERP system. The main conclusion is that there are interrelated impacts of ERP implementation decisions to the organisational financial value. Therefore, decision maker should look at the implementation decision from a new perspective which is Organisational Financial Value (OFV) perspective
This paper details the development of the AUTONOM project, a project that aims to provide an enterprise system tailored to the planning needs of the rail industry. AUTONOM extends research in novel sensing, scheduling, and decision-making strategies customised for the automated planning of maintenance activities within the rail industry. This paper sets out a framework and software prototype and details the current progress of the project. In the continuation of the AUTONOM project it is anticipated that the combination of techniques brought together in this work will be capable of addressing a wider range of problem types, offered by Network rail and organisations in different industries.
Traditional manufacturing work practices do not consider human variability issues during the design process. However, most manual assembly activities demand high levels of repetition and speed without compromising product quality and work productivity. Individual factors including age, gender, skill, experience and anthropometry cause variations in task strategies that lead to variations in individual and organizational work performance. The ergonomics-based risk assessment methods OWAS, REBA and RULA have been used to evaluate risk levels associated with working methods. This paper discusses the need for these methods to understand and highlight the key issues generated by these variations with the objective of minimizing these variations. Methods that can be used to promote working strategies that minimize the level of risk are descr...
This paper reports on the conception of a collaborative, internet-based innovation platform with semantic capabilities, which implements a new methodology for the adoption of a systematic innovation process in globally-acting networked SMEs. The main objective of the innovation platform is to stimulate the generation of ideas, the selection of good ideas and their ultimate implementation. The platform will support SMEs to manage and implement the complex innovation processes arisen in a networked environment, taking into account their internal and external links, by enabling an open multi-agent focused innovation system, facilitating customer, provider, supplier and employee- focused innovation. The solution is specifically focused on the needs of manufacturing SMEs and will observe product, process and management innovation. The paper...
Globalisation and stiff competition have changed the landscape of doing
business. Decrease in customer loyalty and increase in customer expectations
have challenged businesses to come up with unique methods of enhancing their
quality of service. The same is true for airlines industry too. As a result, many
airlines have transformed their marketing strategies, especially with regard to
service quality, in order to compete efficiently in the global market. The marketing
literature has introduced models of service quality, e.g.: SERVQUAL and
AIRQUAL to help organisations measure and enhance customer experiences.
SERVQUAL has been extensively researched and applied in many industries.
Similarly, AIRQUAL, a model for the airline industry, has been developed but
applied only in Cyprus. Moreover, the AIRQUAL scale lacks validity, as its
devel...
In today’s current business world it is becoming exceedingly difficult not only for
organisations to compete but also to sustain competitive advantage. Organisations are
realising that the key to this is not only knowing what knowledge resides in the
organisation but knowing how to use this knowledge to create an innovative and
differentiated product or service. Organisational knowledge provides a platform for
innovation and allows individuals across the organisation to share creative ideas and
inject these ideas into reinventing existing products and services as well as designing
and creating new ones. Innovation is enormously dependent on knowledge and
therefore its availability and quality. As part of promoting innovation, organisations are
assigning teams of employees to take part in creative and technical thinking meetings to
supp...
Estimating the costs for the whole lifecycle of long-term digital preservation (LTDP) activities ena-bles decision makers to choose carefully what data to preserve, duration of preservation and type of preservation techniques best applied for their information. To address this need, a framework is de-veloped to generate a cost model that will estimate costs for long-term digital preservation activities using storage in the cloud and taking into consideration the impact of mitigating uncertainties, espe-cially obsolescence issues on future costs. This cost estimating framework is part of the European pro-ject entitled ‘Enabling kNowledge Sustainability Usability and Recovery for Economic value’ which aims to provide a total long-term digital preservation solution for companies and public sector organi-sations interested in keeping their...
Start-up SMEs face various challenges and difficulties during their existence and due to their nature they often lack knowledge and resources to fully address these challenges. Unlike large companies which have access to various resources, those resources are a significant gap for SMEs and the business owners have to rely on their own limited knowledge. The “Make or buy” decision is a critical decision in an organisation. This decision can affect current and future costs, capability and competences in the company and by taking best practice approaches and measures towards the decision making, extensive costs can be potentially saved. In this study, literature best practices have been reviewed. In addition a small company has been studied and the current practices of the company have been compared to academic best practices. The result...
The challenge of flexibility and productivity for manufacturing operations needs a new concept based on “human-centered manufacturing process”. This concept must consider basically the ergonomics of workplaces and workload balancing. The application of this concept is achievable through the detailed knowledge of the interaction between human and workplace, in particular as far as the mechanical load (or work load) arising from product design and from manufacturing process definition (included tools and equipment). The measurement of workload then is a fundamental for new (and existing) workplaces. In this paper is described the methodology that considers the procedure and instruments for measuring ergonomic parameters and the use of EAWS method to assess the ergonomic risk level of the workplace summarized by a score. EAWS considers ...
Blackheart (BH) is a non-pathogenic internal physiological disorder induced in potato
tubers during storage. It is usually associated with oxygen (O2) depletion and/or carbon
dioxide (CO2) accumulation. BH symptoms are characterized by a dark brown to black
discoloration in the central portion of the tuber tissues. It is believed that phenolic compounds
are related to tuber tissue discoloration and development of BH. In recent years, this disorder
has been a particular problem for the UK fresh and packed potato industry and to date there is
still no true understanding of the causal factors that govern BH susceptibility in stored potato
tubers. Accordingly, the aim of this project was to elucidate the physiological and
metabolomic mechanisms involved in potato blackheart disorder and to have a better
understanding of the factors which c...
