154 research outputs found
A Prescriptive Maintenance Aligned Production Planning and Control Reference Process
Digital innovations can improve various business processes, such as production planning and control (PPC). In the last years, prescriptive maintenance (PxM) emerged as a strategy to increase overall production performance, but an alignment of the PPC process with PxM has not been examined yet. To tackle this problem, a PxM-aligned PPC process is designed and evaluated in this study using a reference model development methodology, including a narrative literature review, a multivocal literature review, and eight expert interviews. The reference model shows where process elements benefit from PxM alignment, how alignment can be achieved from a process and output, data, function, and organization view, and where fits and gaps between theory and practice are
Exploring the Relevance and Maturity of Digital Supply Chain Transformations in Academia and Practice
Nowadays, the management of supply chains has become an indispensable success factor, and the digital transformation changes supply chains fundamentally, increasing competitive advantage. Even though the importance of going digital is undisputed, previous research lacks clear insights into the fundamental capabilities to facilitate a successful transformation and how far they are realized in practice. Therefore, this paper presents nine capabilities crucial for the digital transformation of supply chains. We explore the coverage of these capabilities with an extensive multivocal literature review where we juxtapose theoretical white and practical grey literature. Additionally, the maturity of the capabilities is assessed in a survey and discussed with experts. Furthermore, we discuss fits and gaps between the findings and provide explanations and avenues for future research
Quantum mechanical considerations on algebraic structure of central molecular chirality
The chiral algebra of tetrahedral molecules, derived from Fischer
projections, is discussed in the framework of quantum mechanics. A quantum
chiral algebra is obtained whose operators, acting as rotations or inversions,
commute with the Hamiltonian of the system. It is shown that energy and
chirality eigenstates are strictly related through the Heisenberg relations,
while chirality operators conserve parity eigenstates.Comment: 16 page
High resolution spectroscopy of methyltrioxorhenium: towards the observation of parity violation in chiral molecules
Originating from the weak interaction, parity violation in chiral molecules
has been considered as a possible origin of the biohomochirality. It was
predicted in 1974 but has never been observed so far. Parity violation should
lead to a very tiny frequency difference in the rovibrational spectra of the
enantiomers of a chiral molecule. We have proposed to observe this predicted
frequency difference using the two photon Ramsey fringes technique on a
supersonic beam. Promising candidates for this experiment are chiral oxorhenium
complexes, which present a large effect, can be synthesized in large quantity
and enantiopure form, and can be seeded in a molecular beam. As a first step
towards our objective, a detailed spectroscopic study of methyltrioxorhenium
(MTO) has been undertaken. It is an ideal test molecule as the achiral parent
molecule of chiral candidates for the parity violation experiment. For the
187Re MTO isotopologue, a combined analysis of Fourier transform microwave and
infrared spectra as well as ultra-high resolution CO2 laser absorption spectra
enabled the assignment of 28 rotational lines and 71 rovibrational lines, some
of them with a resolved hyperfine structure. A set of spectroscopic parameters
in the ground and first excited state, including hyperfine structure constants,
was obtained for the antisymmetric Re=O stretching mode of this molecule. This
result validates the experimental approach to be followed once a chiral
derivative of MTO will be synthesized, and shows the benefit of the combination
of several spectroscopic techniques in different spectral regions, with
different set-ups and resolutions. First high resolution spectra of jet-cooled
MTO, obtained on the set-up being developed for the observation of molecular
parity violation, are shown, which constitutes a major step towards the
targeted objective.Comment: 20 pages, 6 figure
From Fischer projections to quantum mechanics of tetrahedral molecules: new perspectives in chirality
The algebraic structure of central molecular chirality can be achieved
starting from the geometrical representation of bonds of tetrahedral molecules,
as complex numbers in polar form, and the empirical Fischer projections used in
organic chemistry. A general orthogonal O(4) algebra is derived from which we
obtain a chirality index related to the classification of a molecule as
achiral, diastereoisomer or enantiomer. Consequently, the chiral features of
tetrahedral chains can be predicted by means of a molecular Aufbau. Moreover, a
consistent Schroedinger equation is developed, whose solutions are the bonds of
tetrahedral molecules in complex number representation. Starting from this
result, the O(4) algebra can be considered as a quantum chiral algebra. It is
shown that the operators of such an algebra preserve the parity of the whole
system.Comment: 33 pages, to appear in Adv. Quantum Che
Progress toward a first observation of parity violation in chiral molecules by high-resolution laser spectroscopy
Parity violation (PV) effects in chiral molecules have so far never been
experimentally observed. To take this challenge up, a consortium of physicists,
chemists, theoreticians and spectroscopists has been established and aims at
measuring PV energy differences between two enantiomers by using
high-resolution laser spectroscopy. In this article, we present our common
strategy to reach this goal, the progress accomplished in the diverse areas,
and point out directions for future PV observations. The work of Andr\'e Collet
on bromochlorofluoromethane enantiomers, their synthesis and their chiral
recognition by cryptophanes made feasible the first generation of experiments
presented in this paper.Comment: 30 pages, 11 figure
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