Collaborative Robotics in Metrology: The Next Generation Technician?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Miller ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Robot Programming ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Collaborative Robotics ◽  
Viable Solution ◽  
Commercial Off The Shelf ◽  
Programming Knowledge

Collaborative robots (COBOTs) are robots designed to safely work with people and have made significant strides in next generation applications, making them metrology ready. The ability to record and repeat movements, integrate sensors, reduce cost, improve quality, provide process sustainment, decrease attrition, improve throughput, and not require benefits packages, all in one system, can seem like a dream. COBOTs have developed to a level where they have become a viable solution with ROIs within months. The need for elaborate robot programming knowledge and specialized machining has been replaced with commercial off the shelf (COTS) resources that quickly provide solutions. How to manage a COBOT metrology laboratory, address personnel concerns, cost benefit analysis, and accreditation concerns, along with how to integrate COBOT capabilities are the basis of discussion for this paper.

The Evolution of Integrated Assessment: Developing the Next Generation of Use-Inspired Integrated Assessment Tools

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 471-487
Author(s):  
Karen Fisher-Vanden ◽  
John Weyant
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Coupled Model ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Emissions Scenarios ◽  
Temporal And Spatial

In this review, we attempt to describe the evolution of integrated assessment modeling research since the pioneering work of William Nordhaus in 1994, highlighting a number of challenges and suggestions for moving the field forward. The field has evolved from global aggregate models focused on cost-benefit analysis to detailed process models used to generate emissions scenarios and to coupled model frameworks for impact analyses. The increased demand for higher sectoral, temporal, and spatial resolution to conduct impact analyses has led to a number of challenges both computationally and conceptually. Overcoming these challenges and moving the field forward will require not only greater efforts in model coupling software and translational tools, the incorporation of empirical findings into integrated assessment models, and intermethod comparisons but also the expansion and better coordination of multidisciplinary researchers in this field through better training of the next generation of integrated assessment scholars and expanding the community of practice.

The Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis for Evaluating Efficiency of Public Investment Projects (The Case of Sochi-2014 Winter Olympic Games)

2011 ◽  
pp. 57-78
Author(s):  
I. Pilipenko
Keyword(s):  
Net Present Value ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Investment Efficiency ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Step Method ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
The Usa

The paper analyzes shortcomings of economic impact studies based mainly on input- output models that are often employed in Russia as well as abroad. Using studies about sport events in the USA and Olympic Games that took place during the last 30 years we reveal advantages of the cost-benefit analysis approach in obtaining unbiased assessments of public investments efficiency; the step-by-step method of cost-benefit analysis is presented in the paper as well. We employ the project of Sochi-2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Russia to evaluate its efficiency using cost-benefit analysis for five accounts (areas of impact), namely government, households, environment, economic development, and social development, and calculate the net present value of the project taking into account its possible alternatives. In conclusion we suggest several policy directions that would enhance public investment efficiency within the Sochi-2014 Olympics.

Hostile Takeovers and Anti-takeover Defenses in the Russian Corporate Market

2007 ◽  
pp. 70-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Demidova
Keyword(s):  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Hostile Takeovers ◽  
Russian Market ◽  
Takeover Defenses ◽  
The Cost ◽  
European Markets

This article analyzes definitions and the role of hostile takeovers at the Russian and European markets for corporate control. It develops the methodology of assessing the efficiency of anti-takeover defenses adapted to the conditions of the Russian market. The paper uses the cost-benefit analysis, where the costs and benefits of the pre-bid and post-bid defenses are compared.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document