A Mechanism of Transferring Manufacturing Competences to Increase Market Performance

This study uses competence transferring theory to establish a mechanism for transferring competence from the outside of an organization. Data were collected in the US from over 300 manufacturing companies. The mechanism of competence transferring is empirically supported. Also, the transferred competences increase manufacturing process competences including process automation, process integration, and process modularity. Furthermore, the process competences lead to higher market performance of firms

The Relationship of Trust and Information Sharing: A Comparative Study of Suppliers in the US and China

Trust is essential for a business relationship within a supply chain. On the basis of 208 responses from suppliers in the U.S. and China this study empirically tests the relationship between trust and each of five types of manufacture-supplier information sharing. High trust can lead to frequent information sharing between suppliers and manufacturers, such as in new product development, manufacturing process, logistics, and quality control. High trust also cause frequent financial information sharing between buyers and suppliers for Chinese and Japanese brand supply chains while it is not supported for western brand supply chains after in-depth comparative study of four groups suppliers in the U.S. and China

The Effect of Grip Span on Hand-gripping Control Strength

Abstract. The economic developments and industrial progressions, the automatic operations were getting more wide-spread. However, currently in various operation occasions, the workers are still required to face how to operate all kinds of hand tooling and equipments. In the industrial cases, there were many opportunities to use hand grip strength to operate machines. Hand grip strength has received increasing attention from industrial engineers and ergonomic researchers. The relation between hand grip strength and tool's grip span was important issues in ergonomics. Occasionally, it was little research to conduct. This study aims at exploring the relationship of tool's grip span and hand grip strength. Seventy two subjects rose from volunteers' participators, including 29 males and 43 females. Dependent variables were maximum volitional contraction and hand gripping control (HGC-70% , target value 70% MVC). Three different diameters of grip span were significance differences in maximum volitional contraction and hand gripping control. The study finds that the best diameter of tool's grip span was 47.6 mm. The finding will be served as a reference for task design, instrument design as well as for disease protected for industrial staffs

Standard Biological Part Automatic Modeling Database Language (MoDeL)

This BioBricks Foundation Request for Comments (BBF RFC) describes the Standard Biological Part Automatic Modeling Database Language (MoDeL). MoDeL provides a language and syntax standard for automatic modeling databases used by synthetic biology software. Meanwhile, MoDeL allows detailed description of biological complex, and presents the concept of Chain-Node Model