What is the impact of company specific adjustments on the acceptance and diffusion of logistic standards?

Transportation Networks and Logistics 4.0 work on the basis of integrated systems. These systems are enabled by standards which are widely used for the communication between IT-Systems. Due to individual requirements, standards are customized by companies. The extent of individualization has not yet been investigated. Therefore, we applied an empirical analysis on two mature logistic communication standards to identify the standard-application gap by calculating the interoperability between the applied standards. Within these results, we expand the standardization theory by simulating the network effects and the standard diffusion and quantify the impact of the company specific individualization of logistic standards. The identified findings help to improve the standard diffusion model and to improve the development of logistic standards

Trauma Psycho Social Support Plus® and EMDR therapy for children and adolescents in a post-conflict setting: Mental health training in Kurdistan

Abstract: Being confronted with the alarming situation in countries like Iraq and Syria – areas shaped by war, of people having lost their homes and suffering from horrible experiences - TraumaAid has designed and conducted a training program, especially for health workers in refugee camps. Clearly the intervention would have to adjust to specific circumstances; it would need a method adapted to another language and culture, an approach that could be used in a not-yet-secure situation with an undetermined number of sessions with every client. Resilience is an important aspect enabling people who suffered from different traumata to resume an everyday life again. Resource installation is a basic technique in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) which intensifies an integral awareness of individual resources for the client. As easy as this method may seem, a careful priming for its actual use is required. A profound understanding of how a traumatic experience affects body, thoughts and emotions is needed as background knowledge. Moreover qualified skills concerning the interaction with children are needed to be able to establish a trustful relationship in the first place. The following article describes a pilot project in Kurdistan / Northern Iraq - a training for psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals working in different refugee camps. The aim was to provide the staff members with background knowledge of the dynamics of traumatization and teach them how to use resource installation in a responsible way to work with children, adolescents and their parents.&nbsp

Requirements and a Meta Model for Exchanging Additive Manufacturing Capacities

In an environment shaped by digital transformation and globalization, manufacturers face increasing market dynamics, cost pressure, and more sophisticated customer requirements. As this demands flexibility and adaptability, enterprises rely on new solutions for collaboration. A marketplace for production capacities supports companies in reducing order risks and improving responsiveness to changing market conditions. We seek to define requirements for a marketplace that is capable of matching products with production processes. With an initial focus on additive manufacturing, we aim to build a blueprint for similar application scenarios in other industrial contexts. Therefore, we employ a qualitative research based on expert interviews. Our results suggest that a marketplace for production capacities must address various requirements, which can be grouped under the categories of technologies, machines, and products. We further build a conceptual meta model that sets the groundwork for the matching and thus facilitates the implementation of the marketplace in practice

A Platform Business Model for Collaborative Additive Manufacturing

Modern manufacturing is caught in a trade-off between maximizing efficiency and staying flexible in dynamic markets. Inter-organizational sharing of manufacturing capacities on a digital marketplace could contribute to gain flexibility, reduce cost and capital employed as well as provide further business opportunities. Although current research has already prepared the ground for its technical conceptualization, research on such a marketplace’s implementation in a business model is scarce. However, since an efficient matching of supply and demand requires a sufficient number of platform users, attracting corporate customers with a suitable business model is crucial. The present research aims to address this problem by developing and evaluating a business model for a marketplace provider, illustrated for the case of additive manufacturing

Taking Lithography to the Third Dimension

Stereolithography is a new technology which allows the rapid building of plastic models directly from CAD data. The photopolymers needed for this process are developed at Ciba's research center in Marly by a project team from the Polymers Division and the corporate Materials Research. The stereolithography process is described as well as the requirements for the photosensitive monomer formulations. Two types of stereolithography resins have been developed so far: acrylate mixtures which polymerize by a radical mechanism and epoxy-based formulations which are cured cationically. The acrylate resins polymerize very rapidly and several formulations with different mechanical properties are available. Cationic resins are a development of the past two years. They are less photosensitive than the acrylates, but have other advantages, such as low viscosity, high green strength and very high dimensional accuracy. With these resins, parts can be built which can be used directly as patterns for the investment casting process

DEVELOPMENT OF A COMMERCIAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM DESIGNED TO ENHANCE PERFORMANCE OF ELITE SWIMMERS IN STARTS, TURNS & RELAY CHANGEOVERS

This paper will provide information concerning the development of the PAS-S swimming start, turn and relay changeover analysis system, designed to enhance the performance of elite competition swimmers. The objective of this project was to provide a system that is able to be retro fitted into almost any training pool. A predecessor of PAS-S was the Wetplate Swim Analysis system which was developed at the Australian Institute of Sport in a pool specifically designed to accommodate it. The Wetplate System proved to be invaluable in the preparation of elite Australian swimmers for international competition in starts, turns and relay changeovers. However, replicating Wetplate at other training facilities was therefore not an option. This project was initiated to develop the PAS-S analysis system that may be installed to the advantage of swimmers in almost any pool

Fractionation processes of δ13C in a soil-shallow groundwater system of a potential CO2 sequestration site: Wandoan, QLD, Australia

Near-surface leakage detection is often a crucial part of verifying the success of CO sequestration projects, and it cannot be achieved without a detailed description of the natural state of an operational site prior to injection. Without baseline studies, it is difficult to define CO anomalies outside natural variation in the subsurface that may be related to leakage. CO concentrations and δC-CO values (of DIC, dissolved gas, and soil gas) were investigated to establish a baseline modelling of natural chemical processes leading to CO occurrence and δC-CO fractionation in the soil-groundwater interface on an example at the Glenhaven site in Queensland, Australia. This was analysed within the context of the hydrogeology and hydrogeochemistry of a shallow aquifer system

Process Selection in RPA Projects – Towards a Quantifiable Method of Decision Making

The digital age requires companies to invest in value-creating rather than routine activities to drive innovation as a future source of competitiveness and business success. Thus, many companies are reluctant to invest in large-scale, costly backend integration projects and seek adaptable solutions to automate their front-office activities. Bridging artificial intelligence and business process management, robotic process automation (RPA) provides the promise of robots as a virtual workforce that performs these tasks in a self-determined manner. Many studies have highlighted potential benefits of RPA. However, little data is available on operationalizing and automating RPA to maximize its benefits. In this paper, we shed light on the automation potential of processes with RPA and operationalize it. Based on process mining techniques, we propose an automatable indicator system as well as present and evaluate decision support for companies that seek to better prioritize their RPA activities and to maximize their return on investment