Metrics technology evaluation

There are members of the staff working on catalysis, solvents, bioprocesses, patents and technology evaluation and management. Their lectures are complemented by talks given by specialists on life cycles, metrics, biorefineries, ethics, synthetic biology, etc., as well as examples of projects with specific industrial applications. A list of invited speakers is given in Table 14.2. Talks given by invited speakers are followed by a question and answer period and their implications are discussed in subsequent classes. 

For feasibility studies, RMSECV is a good indicator of performance as long as the number of calibration samples is statistically sufficient (see Sectionl2.4.4.2). RMSEP, on the other hand, provides the ultimate objective metric by which any technology can be evaluated. 

Efforts to compare the pre- and post-1980 R D strategies are confounded by the fact that the metrics used to evaluate the performance of federal research have changed. In the older period, the measures used largely reflected the impact on the country and the countryside, such as the number of acres planted in the new hybrid and the rate of adoption of a new technology by farmers or processors. The new approach largely measures the impact on the agency or its private partner, considering factors such as the number of patents issued, the number of licenses issued, and the amount of royalties received. 

What metrics of performance are relevant to evaluate existing studies and to use existing facilities as effective test beds for validating tools, testing systems, and facilitating system technology transfer Where a metric is not relevant to all situations, identify and discuss its appropriate application. Discuss situational use of a combination of all relevant metrics where appropriate. 

Finding 4-7. Procedures for measuring the destruction and removal efficiency (DRE), destruction efficiency (DE), or some other metric of performance for detonation-type processes do not appear to have been established in the United States. This gap will seriously hinder future evaluations of such technologies for possible application to non-stockpile... 

Scholtz J. 2002. Evaluation methods for human-system performance of intelligent systems. Proceedings of the 2002 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) Workshop. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD. 

Definition of best practices for process Definition of supply chain metrics Supply chain planning Inventory strategies Facilitation of horizontal processes, like S OP Evaluation of new technologies Network design Establishment of goals Supplier development Other... 

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