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Author : J. Gunnarsson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461342473
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Production systems and hierarchies of centres written by J. Gunnarsson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Gunnarsson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9781461342489
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Production systems and hierarchies of centres written by Jan Gunnarsson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G.A. Carlino
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461340691
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Economies of scale in manufacturing location written by G.A. Carlino and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research reported in this book began as part of a Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the University of Pittsburgh in 1976. Revisions were accomp lished at Florida International University in Miami. There have been many people who were instrumental in the formation and completion of this research. The contributions made by Jack Ochs are far too numerous to mention. Jack's insights and suggestions will always be appreciated. I am also grateful to Melvin Greenhut, David Houston, Tatsuhiko Kawashima, Asatoshi Maeshiro, William Miernyk, Josephine Olson, Peter Nijkamp and Harry Richardson who read and critically re viewed earlier manuscripts. I am doubly indebted to Harry Richardson who initially suggested this investigation. Special thanks are in order for Gene Gruver, Peter Montiel, Randy Miller and James Wheller for always finding the time to hear out many of my arguments. In addition, I appreci ate the valuable suggestions they made as well. I am grateful, moreover, to Janice Carlino who most generously gave of herself to assist in this in any way she could. Janice not only helped with data preparation and with typing-entire drafts of earlier manuscripts, but, more importantly, showed an unusual degree oftolerance toward one for whom the research effort is not the most tranquil of experiences.
Author : Constanze Clarke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3790816280
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Automotive Production Systems and Standardisation written by Constanze Clarke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 2000, Mercedes-Benz started to implement the Mercedes-Benz Prod- tion System (MPS) throughout its world-wide passenger car plants. This event is exemplary of a trend within the automotive industry: the creation and introduction of company-specific standardised production systems. It gradually emerged with the introduction of the Chrysler Operating System (COS) in the mid-1990s and represents a distinct step in the process towards implementing the universal pr- ciples of lean thinking as propagated by the MIT-study. For the academic field of industrial sociology and labour policy, the emergence of this trend seems to mark a new stage in the evolution of the debate about production systems in the auto- tive industry (Jürgens 2002:2), particularly as it seems to undermine the stand of the critics of the one-best way model (Boyer and Freyssenet 1995). The introduction of company-level standardised production systems marks the starting point of the present study. At the core of it is a case study about the M- cedes Benz Production System (MPS).
Author : S.H. Putman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780898380118
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Urban residential location models written by S.H. Putman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1979-05-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decade of the 1970's has seen substantial improvement in our under standing of the determinants of urban spatial patterns. It is typical of western science and technology of the past several centuries that these advances in urban spatial analysis have resulted from the efforts of many individuals. No one of these claims to have found the answer; rather, each contributes some additional understanding of a rather complex set of inter related phenomena. All of this most recent work, in one way or another, rests on preliminary analysis work done in the previous ten to fifteen years. Those earlier efforts are the subject of this book. A very few studies of urban spatial patterns were done prior to 1960. However, it was not until then, with the coming of age of electronic data processing machinery, that work began in earnest. Many theories and theoretical models of urban form were postulated, and some were tested. Often the tests were inconclusive or unsuccessful. The theories often lacked consistency and coherence. Some of the testing was inadequate or even inappropriate. Much of the research was done amidst the turmoil (and sometimes chaos) of attempted (and often premature) application. The results were frequently incompletely described, if described at all. Yet, out of all this, there began to emerge some clearer notion of the determinants of urban spatial patterns.
Author : U. Rembold
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483152782
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Information Control Problems in Manufacturing Technology 1979 written by U. Rembold and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information Control Problems in Manufacturing Technology 1979 is a compilation of papers presented at the second IFAC/IFIP Symposium held at Stuttgart, Germany on October 22-24, 1979. The book discusses the following topics: flexible manufacturing systems research; information processing in large and small systems; materials handling in a manufacturing system; control requirements in industrial robot use; and quality assurance in automated manufacturing processes. The text gives an overview of the Integrated Computer Aided Manufacturing program employed in aerospace batch manufacturing. One paper then presents a research and development program of Japan pertaining to use of lasers in a flexible manufacturing system complex. Another paper discusses the development and set-up of two flexible and different manufacturing systems; the paper also explains the appropriate information processing system that will control such complicated manufacturing processes. Another paper presents the advances in computers for quality control applications that are expected through lower hardware costs and better utilization of statistical methods. Mechanical engineers, technical designers, and students with serious interest in automatic control and computer-aided systems will find this book valuable.
Author : C.P.A. Bartels
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146134249X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Economic aspects of regional welfare written by C.P.A. Bartels and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the product of research which I undertook for my doc toral thesis. The project was started whilst I was at the Free Univer sity of Amsterdam, and the State University of Groningen gave me ample opportunity to complete the work. At both universities I was lucky enough to find kind colleagues who were willing to perform my teaching tasks, enabling me to spend much of my time some of on my research. I should like to thank Wietze Boomsma, Kees van den Hoeven and Jan Oosterhaven for their kind help. I was also most encouraged to discover several students at both institutions who were interested in the research topic. This meant that some research could be performed with their co-operation, which proved most stimulating. Harry ter Braak and Henk van Metelen were especially enthusiastic helpers. During the initial stage of research, Fons Bertens did a great deal of meticulous work, with never a com plaint. In the final stages, Arend Stemerding helped me greatly. The completed manuscript was read by Nol Merkies and Peter Nijkamp, who had some helpful comments on the contents. Pro fessor Nijkamp succeeded in stimulating me during the research by his interest in the project and subsequent edifying discussions. Several persons helped to type the manuscript, but Yvonne van Tuyl took the lion's share, typing a perfect final copy in record time.
Author : M.A. Ghali
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461342511
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Tourism and regional growth written by M.A. Ghali and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to analyze the alternative growth paths open to a region under various policies designed to control the growth oftour ism. This is motivated by the current interest of decision-makers in con trolling the growth of tourism. Such interest and any policies which emanate from it may prove detrimental unless a thorough understanding of the consequences of these policies are the foundation upon which the decisions are made. The study consists of four parts, each is written by an author or a group of authors. Thus, while the logical sequence of the parts and the feedbacks among them unify the study, the methodology adopted in each is different, reflecting the diversity and dexterity of forecasting techniques in econo mics. This variety of techniques is desirable in itself as it exposes the reader to some of the alternative approaches. In chapter 1, the theory of regional growth, and in particular the dis tinction between the supply-based and the demand-based models, is dis cussed. The role played by natural resource constraints is shown to be absent from both types of models, and it is argued that this role can be investigated by considering the alternative growth paths available to the region through variations in the rate oftuilization of the resource. To ac complish that, however, a model of regional growth is needed. The empiri cal evidence provided favour a demand-type model. A model of this type is developed and utilized in succeeding parts of the study.
Author : Peter Nijkamp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789020706895
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Multi-Criteria Analysis and Regional Decision-Making written by Peter Nijkamp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1977-07-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : F. Muller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780898380026
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Energy and Environment in Interregional Input-Output Models written by F. Muller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1979-08-31 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : I. Masser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461340675
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Spatial Representation and Spatial Interaction written by I. Masser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the development of spatial referencing techniques in com puter-based information systems has enormously increased the opportuni ties that exist for the treatment and presentation of both point and interaction data. The extent of this increase has drawn attention to the need for special aggregation and clustering procedures to be developed which enable data to be grouped in an efficient way for analytical pur poses with a minimum loss of detail. In the case of interaction data, economy of representation is particularly important as the analysis is further complicated by the two-way directionality that is inherent in each data set. Procedural rules of this kind are needed not only for descriptive analy sis and spatial accounting but also for hypothesis testing and the develop ment of operational models of spatial interaction. Yet the importance of spatial representation in this kind of research has only recently been fully understood. The first generation of urban development models that were developed in Europe and North America during the 1960's often treated matters of zoning system specification very casually, even though in some cases this imposed severe limits on the interpretation of their findings and it was not until the Centre for Environmental Studies/Cheshire project (Barras et al. , 1971) that a serious attempt was made to put forward general principles which could be used as guidelines in future work.
Author : Abdelhakim Artiba
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461311950
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)
Download or read book The Planning and Scheduling of Production Systems written by Abdelhakim Artiba and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If one accepts the premise that there is no wealth without production, whether at the individual or national level, one is immediately led to the conclusion that the study of productive systems lies at the forefront of subjects that should be intensively, as well as rationally and extensively, studied to achieve the desired 'sustainable growth' of society, where the latter is defined as growth in the quality of life that does not waste the available resources in the long run. Since the end of World War II there has been a remarkable evolution in thinking about production, abetted to a large measure by the nascent field of informatics: the computer technology and the edifices that have been built around it, such as information gathering and dissemination worldwide through communication networks, software products, peripheral interfaces, etc. Additionally, the very thought processes that guide and motivate studies in production have undergone fundamental changes which verge on being revolutionary, thanks to developments in operations research and cybernetics.
Author : M. Paul
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483298132
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Digital Computer Applications to Process Control written by M. Paul and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the application of modern control engineering on digital computers with a view to improving productivity and product quality, easing supervision of industrial processes and reducing energy consumption and pollution. The topics covered may be divided into two main subject areas: (1) applications of digital control - in the chemical and oil industries, in water turbines, energy and power systems, robotics and manufacturing, cement, metallurgical processes, traffic control, heating and cooling; (2) systems theoretical aspects of digital control - adaptive systems, control aspects, multivariable systems, optimization and reliability, modelling and identification, real-time software and languages, distributed systems and data networks. Contains 84 papers.
Author : B S Lim
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814556122
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Computer Integrated Manufacturing (Iccim '91): Manufacturing Enterprises Of The 21st Century - Proceedings Of The International Conference written by B S Lim and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1991-10-02 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 21st century, computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) systems will not only be the economic development tools but will also be the essential means of achieving a higher level of flexibility, cohesiveness and performance. CIM systems are beginning to settle into our society and industries, with greater emphasis on the integration of economic, cultural and social aspects together with design, planning, factory automation and artificial intelligent systems.This volume of proceedings brings together 10 keynote and invited speaker addresses, and over 180 papers by practitioners from 28 countries. It documents current research and in-depth studies on the fundamental aspects of advanced CIM systems and their practical applications. The papers fall into 3 main sections: CIM Related Issues; Industrial AI Applications Aspects; and Concurrent Engineering, Advanced Design, Simulation and Flexible Manufacturing Systems.
Author : F. E. Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135124163X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Industrial Change in Advanced Economies written by F. E. Ian Hamilton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987 and taking a review of the theories and processes of industrial relocation as its starting point, this book examines the nature of organisational and technologcal changes in detail and concludes with a series of industry case studies drawn from areas throughout the world. The book examines the salient features and implications of the reorganisation of industries and industrial enterprises, reflecting their development or harnessing of technological changes - not least ot increase their bargaining power with, control over, or use of labour. Various chapters discuss policy-making and the role of the State posed by the speed, scale and character of the changes.
Author : Suresh P. Sethi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146120285X
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Hierarchical Decision Making in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems written by Suresh P. Sethi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important methods in dealing with the optimization of large, complex systems is that of hierarchical decomposition. The idea is to reduce the overall complex problem into manageable approximate problems or subproblems, to solve these problems, and to construct a solution of the original problem from the solutions of these simpler prob lems. Development of such approaches for large complex systems has been identified as a particularly fruitful area by the Committee on the Next Decade in Operations Research (1988) [42] as well as by the Panel on Future Directions in Control Theory (1988) [65]. Most manufacturing firms are complex systems characterized by sev eral decision subsystems, such as finance, personnel, marketing, and op erations. They may have several plants and warehouses and a wide variety of machines and equipment devoted to producing a large number of different products. Moreover, they are subject to deterministic as well as stochastic discrete events, such as purchasing new equipment, hiring and layoff of personnel, and machine setups, failures, and repairs.
Author : María Semitiel García
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781958711
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Social Capital, Networks and Economic Development written by María Semitiel García and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses productive systems from a structural relational perspective, linking the structure and evolution of productive systems to economic development. This book adopts an epistemological approach that considers the social nature of economic actors and the importance of historical and geographical aspects.
