Lean and Ergonomics decision support tool assessment in a plastic packaging company

30th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM2021) 15-18 June 2021, Athens, GreeceThis paper intends to apply and improve a workstation assessment tool called ErgoSafeCI. Lean manufacturing methods and guidelines, together with safety and ergonomics aspects, were thoroughly researched with the ultimate objective of finding a way to improve the workplace by considering the efficiency and well-being of workers. The assessment tool was applied in the plastics packaging sector, in a process which relied on both practical and theoretical ideas. This tool originates in the notion that for a successful Lean implementation, managers should start the Lean process with a Lean assessment which is then repeated on a regular basis. In addition, it is also important to integrate ergonomic conditions in this journey because ergonomic risks can sometimes result in Lean wastes and vice versa, so workplace ergonomics and Lean manufacturing are to a great extent inter-related. This tool aids practitioners in the assessment of the implementation of Lean principles and safety matters in their processes.We acknowledge the financial support of CIDEM, R&D unit funded by the FCT – Portuguese Foundation for the Development of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, under the Project UID/EMS/0615/2016.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

EMBRACING DI[VERSHTY: A FRAMEWORK FOR RESOLVING CONFLICT BETWEEN MIS AND MANUFACTURING

Turf wars between corporate Management Information Systems (MIS) and corporate manufacturing threaten the success of computer integrated manufacturing (CIM). Cooperation between MIS and manufacturing is essential in the planning, design and implementation of cross-functional information systems, and it is information systems that are the biggest source of CIM failure. This paper takes the position that both MIS and manufacturing have been slow to recognize their contrasting corporate cultures and to deal with resolving the conflict between the two groups. In order to better understand the conflict between MIS and manufacturing, the authors identify the technical and organizational differences. From this, seven points of conflict are identified that are the focal point of the turf wars. A framework for resolving the MIS/manufacturing conflict, based on prior research in organizational diversity, is presented. An empirical research agenda is proposed that will test the framework for applicability, completeness and accuracy. In conclusion, the authors recommend collaborative research between the MIS and manufacturing communities to study the technical and organizational issues related to CIM

MARS: aRISC-based architecture for Lisp

[[abstract]]A RISC-based chip set architecture for Lisp is presented in this paper. This architecture contains an instruction fetch unit (IFU) and three processing units—integer processing unit (IPU), floating-point processing unit (FPU), and list processing unit (LPU). The IFU feeds instructions to the processing units and supports fast procedure call/return and branch, the IPU and FPU execute operations of different data type, and the LPU handles the Lisp runtime environment, dynamic type checking, and fast list access. In this architecture, the critical path of complex register file access and ALU operation is distributed into the LPU and IPU, and the tracing of a list can be done quickly by the non-delayed car or cdr instructions of the LPU. Performance simulation shows that this architecture would be about 6.2 times faster than SPUR and about 2.2 times faster than MIPS-X.[[booktype]]紙本[[booktype]]電子