scholarly journals A Cloud-Based Digital Farm Management System for Vegetable Production Process Management and Quality Traceability

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Yang ◽  
Kaiyi Wang ◽  
Yanyun Han ◽  
Zhong Qiao
Keyword(s):  
Data Acquisition ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Management System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Farm Management ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Vegetable Farm

Farm Management Information Systems (FMISs) are being expanded to improve operation efficiency, reduce inputs, and ensure compliance with standards and regulations. However, this goal is difficult to attain in the vegetable sector, where data acquisition is time-consuming and data at different stages is fragmented by the potential diversity of crops and multiple batches cultivated at any given farm. This applies, in particular, to farms in China, which have small areas and low degrees of mechanization. This study presents an integrated approach to track and trace production efficiently through our Digital Farm Management System (DFMS), which adopts the cloud framework and utilizes Quick Response (QR) codes and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. Specifically, a data acquisition system is proposed that runs on a smartphone for the efficient gathering of planting information in the field. Moreover, DFMS generates statistics and analyses of planting areas, costs, and yields. DFMS meets the FMIS requirements and provides the accurate tracking and tracing of the production for each batch in an efficient manner. The system has been applied in a large-scale vegetable production enterprise, consisting of 12 farms distributed throughout China. This application shows that DFMS is a highly efficient solution for precise vegetable farm management.

Whole Process Management Research for Municipal Power Supply Enterprises’ other Expenses Based on Value Management

2015 ◽  
Vol 713-715 ◽  
pp. 1285-1288
Author(s):  
Jin Li ◽  
Ruo Chen Zhao ◽  
Jian Hua Wang
Keyword(s):  
Power Supply ◽  
Management System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Closed Loop ◽  
Cost Management ◽  
Value Management ◽  
Intensive Management ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Whole Process

With the implementation of State Grid’s management system, ‘Three Intensive Management And Five Large-scale Movements,’ it is inevitable for municipal power supply enterprises to promote and build value management. Based on value management, with management features of municipal power supply enterprises’ other expenses, whole process management will be combined with enterprises’ realities to build management system for other expenses, strengthen control of other management expenses in the event, track key projects and form a closed-loop dynamic cost management, which will make up for lack of the feedback of traditional cost management mode on other management expenses.

Toward the Ideal of Automating Production Optimization

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Michaloski ◽  
F. Proctor ◽  
J. Arinez ◽  
J. Berglund
Keyword(s):  
Data Acquisition ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Production Optimization ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Casting Operation ◽  
Automated Generation ◽  
Manufacturing Optimization ◽  
Production Models

The advent of improved factory data collection offers a prime opportunity to continuously study and optimize factory operations. Although manufacturing optimization tools can be considered mainstream technology, most U.S. manufacturers do not take full advantage of such technology because of the time-intensive procedures required to manually develop models, deal with factory data acquisition problems, and resolve the incompatibility of factory and optimization data representations. Therefore, automated data acquisition, automated generation of production models, and the automated integration of data into the production models are required for any optimization analysis to be timely and cost effective. In this paper, we develop a system methodology and software framework for the optimization of production systems in a more efficient manner towards the goal of fully automated optimization. The case study of an automotive casting operation shows that a highly integrated approach enables the modeling and simulation of the complex casting operation in a responsive, cost-effective and exacting nature. Technology gaps and interim strategies will be discussed.

scholarly journals APPROACHES TO THE CREATION AND STUDY OF EFFECTIVE ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olena Lozhachevska
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Minimum Cost ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Enterprise Management ◽  
Maximum Effect ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Enterprise Management System

The article covers the issues of modern construction of enterprise management systems. It is established that the last negative changes in the activity of enterprises are caused by post-transmission transformations. This gives grounds for business leaders to review and diagnose and monitor the enterprise management system. The search for new ways out of the crisis and stabilization of its activities depends on an effective management system of the enterprise. Thus, it is proved that all participants in market relations must independently and purposefully form and implement scientific and technical policy, promptly make new management decisions in the field of economics, technology and technology. And it is these changes that must be reflected in the transformed and improved enterprise management systems. The analysis of semantic understanding of the conceptual apparatus of the control system is carried out. This made it possible to form the structure of a modern management system. The main elements and subsystems of the modern enterprise management system are identified. The structural scheme of elements of modern system of management of the enterprise is given and constructed. The analysis of approaches is carried out. That is, an effective management system should cover all business processes of the enterprise and for their management it is necessary to use an integrated approach. A comprehensive approach to creating an effective management system in the enterprise must take into account and combine multifaceted aspects (technical, technological, economic, social, environmental, organizational, political, psychological and others), ie to ensure the unity of all components that be realized. The approach requires the internal unity of the entire system and process management to achieve maximum effect with minimum cost. There are three main ones that will enable the transformation, improvement and control of all subsystems and allow the integrated enterprise management system. That is, to create a modern effective management system requires constant diagnosis and improvement of its subsystems.

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OCEANOGRAPHIC MODELING AND OBSERVATION NETWORK (REMO) FOR PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY STUDIES AND OCEAN FORECASTING

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Antonio Moreira Lima
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
North Pacific Ocean ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Global Ocean ◽  
Height Anomaly ◽  
The North ◽  
Observation Network ◽  
Ocean Forecasting

This paper is concerned with the planning, implementation and some results of the Oceanographic Modeling and Observation Network, named REMO, for Brazilian regional waters. Ocean forecasting has been an important scientific issue over the last decade due to studies related to climate change as well as applications related to short-range oceanic forecasts. The South Atlantic Ocean has a deficit of oceanographic measurements when compared to other ocean basins such as the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean. It is a challenge to design an ocean forecasting system for a region with poor observational coverage of in-situ data. Fortunately, most ocean forecasting systems heavily rely on the assimilation of surface fields such as sea surface height anomaly (SSHA) or sea surface temperature (SST), acquired by environmental satellites, that can accurately provide information that constrain major surface current systems and their mesoscale activity. An integrated approach is proposed here in which the large scale circulation in the Atlantic Ocean is modeled in a first step, and gradually nested into higher resolution regional models that are able to resolve important processes such as the Brazil Current and associated mesoscale variability, continental shelf waves, local and remote wind forcing, and others. This article presents the overall strategy to develop the models using a network of Brazilian institutions and their related expertise along with international collaboration. This work has some similarity with goals of the international project Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment OceanView (GODAE OceanView).

scholarly journals System design for inferring colony-level pollination activity through miniature bee-mounted sensors

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haron M. Abdel-Raziq ◽  
Daniel M. Palmer ◽  
Phoebe A. Koenig ◽  
Alyosha C. Molnar ◽  
Kirstin H. Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Data Acquisition ◽  
Honey Bees ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Cluttered Environments ◽  
Robotic Mapping ◽  
Large Scale Data ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Engineered Systems

AbstractIn digital agriculture, large-scale data acquisition and analysis can improve farm management by allowing growers to constantly monitor the state of a field. Deploying large autonomous robot teams to navigate and monitor cluttered environments, however, is difficult and costly. Here, we present methods that would allow us to leverage managed colonies of honey bees equipped with miniature flight recorders to monitor orchard pollination activity. Tracking honey bee flights can inform estimates of crop pollination, allowing growers to improve yield and resource allocation. Honey bees are adept at maneuvering complex environments and collectively pool information about nectar and pollen sources through thousands of daily flights. Additionally, colonies are present in orchards before and during bloom for many crops, as growers often rent hives to ensure successful pollination. We characterize existing Angle-Sensitive Pixels (ASPs) for use in flight recorders and calculate memory and resolution trade-offs. We further integrate ASP data into a colony foraging simulator and show how large numbers of flights refine system accuracy, using methods from robotic mapping literature. Our results indicate promising potential for such agricultural monitoring, where we leverage the superiority of social insects to sense the physical world, while providing data acquisition on par with explicitly engineered systems.

scholarly journals Joint Gravity and Seismic Reflection Methods to Characterize the Deep Aquifers in Arid Ain El Beidha Plain (Central Tunisia, North Africa)

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1310
Author(s):  
Hajer Azaiez ◽  
Hakim Gabtni ◽  
Mourad Bédir
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Reflection ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Seismic Analysis ◽  
Gravity Data ◽  
Geophysical Methods ◽  
Gravity Anomalies ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Central Tunisia ◽  
Deep Aquifers ◽  
Advanced Analysis

Electric resistivity sounding and tomography, as well as electromagnetic sounding, are the classical methods frequently used for hydrogeological studies. In this work, we propose the development and implementation of an original integrated approach using the unconventional hydro–geophysical methods of gravity and seismic reflection for the fast, large–scale characterization of hydrogeological potential using the Ain El Beidha plain (central Tunisia) as an analogue. Extending the values of vintage petroleum seismic reflection profiles and gravity data, in conjunction with available geological and hydrogeological information, we performed an advanced analysis to characterize the geometry of deep tertiary (Oligocene and Eocene) aquifers in this arid area. Residual and tilt angle gravity maps revealed that most gravity anomalies have a short wavelength. The study area was mainly composed of three major areas: the Oued Ben Zitoun and Ain El Beidha basins, which are both related to negative gravity trends corresponding to low–density subsiding depocenters. These basins are separated by an important NE–SW trend called “El Gonna–J. El Mguataa–Kroumet Zemla” gravity high. Evaluation of the superposition of detected lineaments and Euler deconvolution solutions’ maps showed several NE–SW and N–S relay system faults. The 3D density inversion model using a lateral and vertical cutting plane suggested the presence of two different tectonic styles (thin VS thick). Results from the gravity analysis were in concordance with the seismic analysis. The deep Oligocene and Eocene seismic horizons were calibrated to the hydraulic wells and surrounding outcrops. Oligocene and Eocene geological reservoirs appear very fractured and compartmented. The faulting network also plays an important role in enhancing groundwater recharge process of the Oligocene and Eocene aquifers. Finally, generated isochron maps provided an excellent opportunity to develop future comprehensive exploration surveys over smaller and more favorable areas’ sub–basins.

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