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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Production facilities"”.
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Treatment of air pollutants emitted from corn-derived ethanol production facilities
… a result, the total annual capacity of ethanol production facilities in the United States is rising rapidly. However, ethanol has environmental issues that may limit its use as a gasoline additive or alternative fuel. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has recently …
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Balancing tax incentives with operational risks in captive overseas production facilities
… - sending a function overseas - to reduce production costs. While some companies elect to outsource overseas production to outside companies, many companies choose to keep production in-house and therefore create captive production facilities overseas. In many countries, the government will …
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A Survey of High School Media Production Facilities in First Class School Districts in Western Washington
… The services rendered by a well-organized local production center are an important facet of a media program that can assist in achieving these needs.
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A Survey of the Existing Production Facilities in the School Districts in the State of Washington
A survey conducted to determine: (1) what facilities exist now in Washington State's public schools for the production of instructional materials; (2) who staffs these facilities; and (3) how these facilities are utilized so it can be decided what is necessary for an adequate production program.
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Interaktive Optimierung des Betriebsmitteleinsatzes in der integrierten Projektplanung und -steuerung
… This paper focuses on optimising the use of production facilities. This very field is the least developed in intermediate data systems technology. One essential reason for this is that the computing procedures used so far take so much time even on large computers that they are hardly used in …
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Improving energy efficiency in a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment -- production facility
… efficiency in both its office buildings and production facilities. Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system was identified to be the major energy consumer in the plant. An HVAC specific energy management tool was developed to monitor the energy efficiency and calculate the heat …
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Condition monitoring für HFA-Hydraulik mit ölhydraulischen Geräten
Industrial production facilities ought to offer high "Technical Availability". Also due to the costs they have to satisfy demands for maintenance strictly according to actual conditions; for HFA-hydraulics this is equivalent to the requirement ofleading important components close to their limits of …
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Sustainable Value Creation Through Mass Timber Development in North America
… Codes (IBC) and increased investment in new production facilities will improve the scale and usability of mass timber, further reducing costs and environmental impacts. This dynamic presents developers with a unique opportunity to capitalize on changing tides and revolutionize the building …
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Soviet advanced technology: The case of high-performance computing.
… evolution of high-performance systems and the facilities within which they were developed. Although closely tied to the military, the HPC sector was not able to overcome basic systemic and technological difficulties. HPC illustrates the limits of centralized-directive economic management's …
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Constraint-based facilities planning
In recent years a large variation of production volume for the mass-production products happens frequently due to the changes in technology and market. Those changes cause introduction of new products having shorter life cycles, thus enforcing modification and renewal of production facilities much …
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Clausewitz and Counterproliferation: Defeating, Deterring and Disarming Rogues Possessing Weapons of Mass Destruction
… war and peace, and the preventive destruction of production facilities. To implement these strategies, the U.S. military needs new technical capabilities related to protection, counterforce capabilities, and nuclear retaliation. Nevertheless there remain distinct technical, operational, legal and …
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A Safeguards Design Strategy for Domestic Nuclear Materials Processing Facilities.
… requirements relating to the design of new production facilities. Project management and engineering design guides require that design documents contain specific and measureable statements relating to systems requirements. The systems engineering process evaluates alternatives for an …
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Analyzing tradeoffs between working capital and production capacity for multi-stage manufacturing processes
… to reduce work-in-process inventory in their production facilities. In our research, we focus on the tradeoff between inventory and production capacity through investing in new facilities and equipment. This tradeoff will depend on the company's objectives and what it is willing to give up in …
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Evaluating the Impact of Local Vaccine Manufacturing on the Resilience and Responsiveness of the Vaccine Supply Chain: A Case Study within South Africa
… a hybrid system integrating local mRNA vaccine production. The simulation model was developed using AnyLogistix, which enabled detailed representation of production facilities, inventory policies, distribution networks, and transportation paths. Key performance indicators, including service …
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An integrated intelligent shop control system
… for this CIM facility, the design of products, production facilities, and overall system must be taken into account. In order to manage this complex system, a control system called the “shop controller” has been developed using C++, an object-oriented programming language. In addition, three …
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An estimation of the costs associated with commercial broiler production in Virginia
This study is a summary of production costs of commercial broilers as reported by a sample of producers and contract feed dealers in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia. The results are presented in the form of estimated costs under stated situations of production facilities, performance, and …
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Lot-sizing in the wood furniture industry
We consider the problem of scheduling production in a wood furniture plant. In particular, we consider the problem of selecting orders from various types of furniture products and determining their lot-sizes for production when there are sequence dependent setup times involved in the production of …
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Analytics for Sustainable Logistics: Fuel Efficiency and Hydrogen Planning
… optimization to plan the deployment of hydrogen production facilities in future operations. In Chapter 2, we employ data-driven techniques to explore the drivers of fuel efficiency in the logistics sector in an effort to improve the current operating practices of Rivigo—a large logistics provider …
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Investing in quality : identifying the true value of advanced weld inspection technology
… was selected and validated in the laboratory and production environments. Although phased array was not new to Caterpillar, its adoption within the production facilities had previously been limited.
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Systems Engineering for Carbon Capture and Storage
… CO2 from power plants, ammonia, and chemical production facilities and utilizing onshore pipelines and saline aquifers offer high utility and low cost. The Gulf Coast and Permian & Midcontinent regions show better performance due to existing infrastructure and storage capacity. The study …
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