Failure detection and separation in SOM based decision support

Failure management in process industry has difficult tasks. Decision support in control rooms of nuclear power plants is needed. A prototype that uses Self-Organizing Map (SOM) method is under development in an industrial project. This paper has focus on failure detection and separation. A literature survey outlines the state-of-the-art and reflects our study to related works. Different SOM visualizations are used. Failure management scenarios are carried out to experiment the methodology and the Man-Machine Interface (MMI). U-matrix trajectory analysis and quantization error are discussed more in detail. The experiments show the usefulness of the chosen approach. Next step will be to add more practical views by analyzing real and simulated industrial data with the control room tool and by feedback from the end users

Failure detection and separation in SOM based decision support

Failure management in process industry has difficult tasks. Decision support in control rooms of nuclear power plants is needed. A prototype that uses Self-Organizing Map (SOM) method is under development in an industrial project. This paper has focus on failure detection and separation. A literature survey outlines the state-of-the-art and reflects our study to related works. Different SOM visualizations are used. Failure management scenarios are carried out to experiment the methodology and the Man-Machine Interface (MMI). U-matrix trajectory analysis and quantization error are discussed more in detail. The experiments show the usefulness of the chosen approach. Next step will be to add more practical views by analyzing real and simulated industrial data with the control room tool and by feedback from the end users

Improving competitiveness of readymade garment (RMG) industry of Bangladesh - analysis of supply chains

This study attempts to develop a model of improving competitiveness through analysing the supply chain (SC) of RMG industry in Bangladesh. The main objective of this study is to investigate the influence of external stakeholders’ of RMG SC to the demand side and supply side issues for improving competitiveness. Mixed method research is adopted in this study and data are analyzed by Partial Least Square-based Structural Equation Modelling. This study revealed that stakeholders have influence to improve competitiveness

The drivers of Corporate Social Responsibility in the supply chain. A case study.

Purpose: The paper studies the way in which a SME integrates CSR into its corporate strategy, the practices it puts in place and how its CSR strategies reflect on its suppliers and customers relations. Methodology/Research limitations: A qualitative case study methodology is used. The use of a single case study limits the generalizing capacity of these findings. Findings: The entrepreneur’s ethical beliefs and value system play a fundamental role in shaping sustainable corporate strategy. Furthermore, the type of competitive strategy selected based on innovation, quality and responsibility clearly emerges both in terms of well defined management procedures and supply chain relations as a whole aimed at involving partners in the process of sustainable innovation. Originality/value: The paper presents a SME that has devised an original innovative business model. The study pivots on the issues of innovation and eco-sustainability in a context of drivers for CRS and business ethics. These values are considered fundamental at International level; the United Nations has declared 2011 the “International Year of Forestry”

On sustainable built environment. Between connections and greenery

Volume n. 7 of the series Project contains essays and critical considerations, research and experiments, projects and actions addressing the subject connections between people, between people and things-places and between things-places and greenery in symbiosis with the built form, two topics of pressing relevance