scholarly journals A Systematic Model for Process Development Activities to Support Process Intelligence

Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 600
Author(s):  
Edrisi Muñoz ◽  
Elisabet Capon-Garcia ◽  
Enrique Martinez Muñoz ◽  
Luis Puigjaner
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Process Development ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Production Plant ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Technology Application ◽  
Architecture Model ◽  
Formal Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Models ◽  
Development Framework

Process, manufacturing, and service industries currently face a large number of non-trivial challenges ranging from product conception, going through design, development, commercialization, and delivering in a customized market’s environment. Thus, industries can benefit by integrating new technologies in their day-by-day tasks gaining profitability. This work presents a model for enterprise process development activities called the wide intelligent management architecture model to integrate new technologies for services, processes, and manufacturing companies who strive to find the most efficient way towards enterprise and process intelligence. The model comprises and structures three critical systems: process system, knowledge system, and transactional system. As a result, analytical tools belonging to process activities and transactional data system are guided by a systematic development framework consolidated with formal knowledge models. Thus, the model improves the interaction among processes lifecycle, analytical models, transactional system, and knowledge. Finally, a case study is presented where an acrylic fiber production plant applies the proposed model, demonstrating how the three models described in the methodology work together to reach the desired technology application life cycle assessment systematically. Results allow us to conclude that the interaction between the semantics of formal knowledge models and the processes-transactional system development framework facilitates and simplifies new technology implementation along with enterprise development activities.

Labour 4.0: developing competences for smart production

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid Heideman Lassen ◽  
Brian Vejrum Vejrum Waehrens
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Competence Development ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Industrial Transformation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Development Framework

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine how companies develop and acquire competences to capture the benefits of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies. The authors argue that this is a fundamental and often overlooked prerequisite for industrial transformation. Design/methodology/approach The authors conduct a process study of 33 small- and medium-sized companies engaged in the transformation of a manufacturing industry from the different perspectives of manufacturers or manufacturing solution providers. Findings Key findings indicate a strong link between the specific competence development approach, the specific intricacies of the application domain and the process outcomes. On this basis, a competence development framework is proposed. Research limitations/implications The conclusions are drawn from a Danish population of companies in the manufacturing industry and are based on particular contingencies, such as low volume/high mix, high skill, low tech and high cost. However, the findings are believed to be applicable across different sets of contingencies where the need to combine legacy and emerging technologies is present, and where the human factor is central to leveraging technology beyond predefined supplier specifications. Practical implications In a time of extraordinary investments in the manufacturing of technologies in support of digital transformation, the development of strategic and operational competences to support these investments is lagging behind. This paper develops a conceptual outset for closing this gap. Originality/value The research is based on the fundamental argument that to efficiently apply new technology, a strategic approach to the acquisition of new knowledge and skills is required. The empirical research demonstrates that new skills and knowledge are often assumed to follow automatically from the use of new technologies. However, we demonstrate that this perspective in fact limits the ability to capture the potential benefits ascribed to I4.0 technologies. The authors propose that the competence strategy needs to be expansive and cover not only the technological competences but also the organizational- and individual-level competences. These results add to our understanding of how the digital transformation of manufacturing companies unfolds.

scholarly journals Sex, human rights and AIDS: an analysis of new technologies for HIV prevention in the Brazilian context

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 89-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dulce Ferraz ◽  
Vera Paiva
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Process Development ◽  
Technical Information ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Risk Compensation ◽  
Pubmed Database

ABSTRACTWorldwide, HIV prevention is challenged to change because clinical trials show the protective effect of technologies such as circumcision, preexposure prophylaxis, and the suppression of viral load through antiretroviral treatment. In the face of demands for their implementation on population levels, the fear of stimulating risk compensation processes and of increasing riskier sexual practices has retarded their integration into prevention programs. In this article, following a narrative review of the literature on risk compensation using the PubMed database, we offer a critical reflection on the theme using a constructionist approach of social psychology integrated to the theoretical framework of vulnerability and human rights. The use of biomedical technologies for prevention does not consistently induce its users to the increase of riskier practices, and variations on the specificity of each method need to be carefully considered. Alternatives to the theories of sociocognitive studies, such as social constructionist approaches developed in the social sciences and humanities fields, indicate more comprehensive interpretations, valuing the notions of agency and rights. The critical analysis suggests priority actions to be taken in the implementation process: development of comprehensive programs, monitoring and fostering dialog on sexuality, and technical information. We highlight the need to implement a human rights-based approach and to prioritize dialog, stressing how complementary these technologies can be to meet different population needs. We conclude by stressing the need to prioritize sociopolitical changes to restore participation, dialog about sexuality, and emphasis on human rights such as core elements of the Brazilian AIDS policy.

scholarly journals Study on Energy-saving Insulation Materials in the Building’s Exterior

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Yang Zhang ◽  
Yazhi Hu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Insulation Material ◽  
Curtain Wall ◽  
Construction Engineering ◽  
Technology Application ◽  
Insulation Materials

<p>Construction industry has been one of China's energy guzzlers, if we can reduce the energy consumption of the building industry through the use of new materials or new technologies, which will have a significant impact on the development of economy and society. The status quo of China's construction industry, high energy consumption, paper use energy-saving technologies in the field of construction works to expand the analysis, discusses the necessity of the construction industry currently uses energy-saving insulation materials and analyzes the current energy field of construction engineering technology application status, on the basis of focus on the application of energy-saving insulation materials in construction, particularly in the new system and the new glass curtain wall insulation material in construction applications, which further enhance the energy-saving technology within the field of construction engineering the application level has a certain reference.</p>

Tourism, linkages, and economic development in Jamaica

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Karagiannis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Alternative Development ◽  
Macroeconomic Performance ◽  
Industrial Competitiveness ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Commodity Production ◽  
Related Service ◽  
Growth Promoting

This article offers, briefly, a production‐oriented development framework for Jamaica, based on growth‐promoting linkages between tourism, commodity production sectors, and complementary and related service industries. These linkages can boost the Jamaican endogenous competency and industrial competitiveness, while improving the country’s macroeconomic performance. Alternative development policy considerations are also within the scope of this article.

Ambidexterity strategic model-behavior logic and path choice

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 751-777
Author(s):  
Zijie Li ◽  
Qiuling Gao
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Alternative Framework ◽  
Strategic Model

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer an alternative framework and solution for balancing exploitation–exploration tensions and their management. Design/methodology/approach A case study method was adopted to uncover what underlies tensions and contradictions between exploitation–exploration that emerge for Chinese manufacturing companies due to the competitive global environment and their latecomer disadvantages when they source new technologies by cross-border mergers and acquisitions. The acquiring firm that acquires two companies is thus not a single but a cross-case study. Findings The authors present three contradictory points needing to be balanced and according to which three paradoxes emerge: exploitation from a similar knowledge base and innovation from a complementary knowledge base, efficiency and flexibility, as well as profit and breakthroughs. The authors theorize how paradoxical integration helps manage these interwoven tensions. Further, the assimilate-integration-apply (AIA) path suggests a new behavior logic and path choice for Chinese companies when they follow an ambidextrous strategy. Research limitations/implications This paper has implications for future research and for companies’ everyday practice on ambidexterity in Chinese society. Originality/value The authors combine ambidexterity perspective and AIA path with linkage-leverage-learning (LLL) to offer an alternative framework and solution for balancing exploitation–exploration paradoxes in EE firms’ internationalization to increase LLL’s explanatory power.

Embedding formal knowledge models in active documents

1999 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian R. Gaines ◽  
Mildred L. G. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Formal Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Models

New Technologies in Process Development

2018 ◽  
pp. 73-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter W. Sutton ◽  
Joseph P. Adams ◽  
Charles Wade ◽  
Katherine Wheelhouse
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Process Development
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