Flexible product research

Glasmeier, A. 1991. Technological discontinuities and flexible production networks the case of Switzerland and the world watch industry. Research Policy, 20(5) 469-485. 

Stevens, W. C. and Turner, N., Technical Brochure, "Experiments with Flexible Wood." Forest Products Research Laboratory, Princess Risborough, April 1966. 

It is now apparent, however, that the Specialist Periodical Reports on "The Alkaloids", "Biosynthesis", "Terpenoids and Steroids" and "Aliphatic and Related Natural Product Chemistry" are not financially viable in their present book format and in 1984 they are to be replaced by a review journal to be called "Natural Product Reports". The new journal is to be published every two months and will continue to give comprehensive annual surveys of the four areas of natural product research additional articles on subjects not covered by existing Specialist Periodical Reports on topics such as chemotaxonom.y and enzymology and on advances in physical techniques will be included periodically and author and subject indices are to be provided. The flexible production timetable should ensure more rapid publication of manuscripts compared with S.P.R. s. In order to maintain continuity the S.P.R. Senior Reporters are members of the Editorial Board of Natural Products Reports and in the case of the alkaloid chapters it is expected that the present authors will contribute to the Journal. We all hope that the support we have received over the years from alkaloid chemists will be extended to this new and exciting venture. As always comments and suggestions will be much appreciated. 

Huang, H., and Chang, P. (1992), Specification, Modeling and Control of a Flexible Manufacturing Cell, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 30, No. 11, pp. 2515-2543. 

Wu, S. D., and Wysk, R. A. (1989), An Application of Discrete-Event Simulation to On-line Control and Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing, International Journal of Production Research, VoL... 

WUhelm, W. Shin, H. (1985). Effectiveness of alternative operations in a flexible manufacturing system International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 23, pp.65-79. 

Increased power and load factor of the research reactor The operational flexibility of research reactors coupled with new needs, such as radioisotope production and fuel qualification programmes, have led in some cases to an increase the reactor power and its... 

Ivanov, Dmitry, Boris Sokolov, and Alexandre Dolgui. The Rip>ple Effect in Supply Chains Trade-off Efficiency-Flexibility-Resilience in Disruption Management. International Journal of Production Research 52, no. 7 (2014) 2154—2172. 

Common plasticizers, such as those based on phthalates or trimeUitates, have been used frequently, particularly with poly(vinyl chloride), allowing an otherwise hard material (e. g., drain pipes) to be used in flexible products (e.g., shower curtains or water hoses). Several recent studies showing migration of plasticizers out of materials during their lifetime has led to the development of more stable or less toxic plasticizers, such as citrates that are used in medical plastics (e.g., IV bags and tubing). A recent review paper covers the major uses of common plasticizers and discusses the numerous applications and research trends [10]. 

Chang, Shih-Chia, Neng-Pai Lin, and Chwen Sheu. Aligning Manufacturing Flexibility with Environmental Uncertainty Evidence from High-Technology Component Manufacturers in Taiwan. International Journal of Production Research (2002) 40(18), 4765 780. 

Garetti, M. Pozzetti, A. Bareggi, A. "On-line Loading and Dispatching in Flexible Manufacturing Systems", paper accepted for publication in International Journal of Production Research. 

Koltai, T. Lozano, S. Guerrero, E. Onieva, L. (2000) A flexible costing system for flexible manxifacturing systems using activity based costing. In International Journal of Production Research, 38(7), 1615-1630. 

Determination of die mechanical properties of a cured polymer serves to characterize its macroscopic (bulk) features such as flexibility and hardness. Using standardized methods of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and die International Standards Organization (ISO) allows direct comparison to otiier materials. The vast majority of polyurethane research and development is conducted in industry where mechanical properties are of vital importance because tins information is used to design, evaluate, and market products. General test categories are presented here with a few illustrative examples. 

Points 1 and 5 refer to the increased importance of functional chemicals [291]. Owing to the wide parameter space determining functionality (not only molecular diversity), this demands much higher flexibility and speed in the preparation of new samples during the research phase. The behavior of complex molecular mixtures needs to be understood. In particular, product application, formulation, and blending skills need to be developed and acquired. In a more remote vision, this demands on-site distributed manufacture of functional chemicals such as paints and similar products. 

BPD is a contract research facility, which started operations in 1996. From the storage of frozen materials, the customized laboratory services to the consulting in process development and scaling up, BPD has been accumulating useful experiences in the biotechnological scenario. Very flexible set of fermenters are used to satisfy customer needs, through very small and fast adaptation and modifications. Bioreactors productivity varies from 100 mg to 1000 mg scale. 

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