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Wireless for Industrial Automation: Significant Trend or Overrated?
The paper gave an overview on the potential of wireless sensor systems in industrial applications. The emergence of wireless technologies for...
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Integrated Billing Solutions in the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things is one of the most promising technological developments in information technology. It promises huge financial and nonfinancial...
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The Role of the Internet of Things for Increased Autonomy and Agility in Collaborative Production Environments
This chapter discusses the contribution of the Internet of Things for providing a fine-grained information infrastructure within collaborative...
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Supply Network Management
The objective of logistics is to provide the right quantity of the right objects in the right place at the right time in the right quality for the...
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Towards a Core Integrative Framework for Complex Engineering Service Systems
Complex Engineering Service provision is a develo** area for both practitioners and academics. Delivery requires an integrated offering, drawing...
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Production Planning and Control for Mass Customization – A Review of Enabling Technologies
Production planning and control (PPC) is critical to the success of mass customization (MC). It ensures production systems fulfill individual...
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Industrial End Use Applications
Plastics remain the material of choice for packaging, increasingly substituting for other more traditional materials because they are lightweight,...
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Intelligent Cargo – Using Internet of Things Concepts to Provide High Interoperability for Logistics Systems
The advancements in technology and increased need for streamlined business operations demand new ways in cooperation. In recent years, the Internet...
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Sensor-Centric System Developments
Already the Phoenicians sailed the seas according to coastal marks, while in the early days of aviation navigation was based on roadmaps. Where no...
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Food Quality Systems in Turkey: Perspectives in Terms of Food Defence
The chapter summarizes the current food quality systems in Turkey from the perspective of food defense. Recently Turkey has formally adopted a number...
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Decision Support Systems for the Food Industry
Applications of Decision Support Systems (DSSs) in the food industry, and in particular the seafood industry, are discussed. The amount of data...
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Radio-frequency Identification (RFID): Technology and Applications
RFID is a big step forward when compared to bar codes. A technical description and the possible future progress of this technology are provided. The...
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Beyond the ID in RFID
Wireless sensing devices are increasingly utilized to gather information about the environment of deployment. In this chapter, we analyze the...
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Mine Communication Technique
Mining, being a dynamic and intricate operation, needs a multifaceted continuous stream of information from surface to underground and vice versa....
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Healthcare: A complex service system
Healthcare is indeed a complex service system, one requiring the technobiology approach of systems engineering to underpin its development as an...
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WIG Craft Development
Our aim in this chapter is to introduce the reader to the WIG development programmes carried out in a number of countries in the last half of the...
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Logistics
The term logistics can be used to describe the planning, execution, design and control of all material and information flows between a company and...
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Strategies of Logistics
Strategies are logical procedures to reach certain goals. Suitable strategies are prerequisites for the effective use of resources and often the...
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Integrated Spare Parts Management
Maintenance strategies are designed and implemented in order to reduce the frequency and duration of service interruptions, while satisfying...
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Logistic Costs and Controlling
Logistic costs are defined differently in companies. In many cases, the reported logistic costs of companies even within the same business differ...