An Integrated Scheduling Algorithm for the Same Equipment Process Sequencing Based on the Root-Subtree Vertical and Horizontal Pre-Scheduling

Given the existing integrated scheduling algorithms,all processes are ordered and scheduled overall,and these algorithms ignore the influence of the vertical and horizontal characteristics of the product process tree on the product scheduling effect.This paper presents an integrated scheduling algorithm for the same equipment process sequencing based on the Root-Subtree horizontal and vertical pre-scheduling to solve the above problem.Firstly,the tree decomposition method is used to extract the root node to split the process tree into several Root-Subtrees,and the Root-Subtree priority is set from large to small through the optimal completion time of vertical and horizontal pre-scheduling.All Root-Subtree processes on the same equipment are sorted into the stack according to the equipment process pre-start time,and the stack-top processes are combined with the schedulable process set to schedule and dispatch the stack.The start processing time of each process is determined according to the dynamic start processing time strategy of the equipment process,to complete the fusion operation of the Root-Subtree processes under the constraints of the vertical process tree and the horizontal equipment.Then,the root node is retrieved to form a substantial scheduling scheme,which realizes scheduling optimization by mining the vertical and horizontal characteristics of the process tree.Verification by examples shows that,compared with the traditional integrated scheduling algorithms that sort the scheduling processes as an overall,the integrated scheduling algorithmin this paper is better.The proposed algorithmenhances the process scheduling compactness,reduces the length of the idle time of the processing equipment,and optimizes the production scheduling target,which is of universal significance to solve the integrated scheduling problem.

INTERNAITONAL COOPERATION IN MEDICAL EQUIPMENT TECHNOLOGY

There is a long history of failure in international cooperation in medical equip-ment technology.IFMBE and JSMEBE have made great efforts to remedy the situa-tion.Recently,JSMEBE is asked by Japanese Goverment to provide a guideline forthe activities.A committee was formed for 3 years,and as a result of extensive sur-vey studies by questionaries,interviews and correspondences,the final guideline waspublished (in Japanese) March 1993.It is available on request,and English transla-

Equipment selection knowledge base system for industrial styrene process

Equipment selection for industrial process usually requires the extensive participation of industrial experts and technologists, which causes a serious waste of resources. This work presents an equipment selection knowledge base system for industrial styrene process(S-ESKBS) based on the ontology technology. This structure includes a low-level knowledge base and a top-level interactive application. As the core part of the S-ESKBS, the low-level knowledge base consists of the equipment selection ontology library, equipment selection rule set and Pellet inference engine. The top-level interactive application is implemented using S-ESKBS, including the parsing storage layer, inference query layer and client application layer. Case studies for the industrial styrene process equipment selection of an analytical column and an alkylation reactor are demonstrated to show the characteristics and implementability of the S-ESKBS.

Formalization of Rules for the Cooperation between Goal and Process

To meet the end-user's dynamically changed requirements for software and achieve the on-demand changes of operational process in time, based on the Goal model and the Process model, the user's personalized operations of the related work were simplified and integrated, and rules for the cooperation between Goal and Process which fit for software engineers were proposed and formalized. The user's personalized operations of the related work were analyzed to conclude the pattern of Goal modification. By the direct drive of Goal modification, the corresponding changes of Process were induced and specified. Then rules for the cooperation between Goal and Process were concluded and the formalization was achieved in Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL). In this paper, reasoning support was provided for the model modification based on ontology and the dynamic evolution of Process model.

Acoustic Characteristics Analysis of Industrial Premises with Process Equipment

Process equipment placing in industrial premises leads to essential change of room acoustic characteristics: mean length of sound rays’ free runs, reverberation time and mean absorption factor in a room. The changes influence distribution of the reflected sound energy in premise volume. Failure to take account of the given circumstance results in errors at definition of sound pressure levels and an estimation of efficiency of building-acoustic measures of noise abatement. In the paper the results of computer modeling of acoustic processes in premises with the process equipment are considered and influence of the equipment on a sound absorption indoors is analyzed. The computer simulation is carried out on the basis of the ray tracing method with taking into account rays’ energy distribution in a room. It is shown that such approach allows determining objectively the integral acoustic characteristics of industrial premises, takes into account influencing to them the room parameters, the presence and scattering characteristics of the equipment and makes more accurate the equations putting into engineering practice.

Independent integration practice on revamping 4200/3500 mm medium and heavy plate rolling mill of Bayi Steel in terms of process and make-up equipment

This study systematically reviews and summarizes relocation and revamping project of medium and heavy plate rolling mill in Bayi Steel.After detailed analysis was made on the main deficiency and problems of the original production line of Pudong Steel,systematical integration and improvement for the process and equipment were carried out accordingly.Through innovative practice of integration,Baosteel Engineering has greatly improved the technical process and equipment make-up,as well as the grades and quality of the products.The original man-operating line is redesigned into an automatic system controlled by Level 2 computer,reaching the advanced technical level of home-made medium and heavy plate production line in recent years.The project is constructed in two phases;The original product mix of Pudong Steel is maintained as much as possible in Phase I.After 3 500 mm single stand finishing mill is put into operation, capacity of hot- rolling medium and heavy plate reaches 650 000 t/a,with the maximum thickness at 40 mm.Equipment or facilities are reserved for production of pipeline steel and other grades.Pipeline steel, vessel plate,wind power plate and other TMCP and heat treatment products are projected in PhaseⅡ.After 4 200 mm roughing mill and its matched facilities are put into operation,capacity of hot-rolling medium and heavy plate will reach 120 000 t/a,with the maximum thickness at 80 mm.Through the optimization of process equipment and its function,the relocated medium and heavy plate mill production line has reached advanced level among similar domestic mills.The prominent achievements of the project are the revamping of thickness control system of the finishing mill and the newly installed shape control system.Automation control of the whole line is realized.

Evaluation of Transboundary Water Resource Development in Mekong River Basin: The Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process in the Context of Water Cooperation

Mekong River is one of the major international freshwater sources in the world. The Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) comprised of four downstream countries, including Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The utilization of the basin’s water brings not only substantial benefits to the region ranging from hydropower to navigation, but also negative impacts caused by the unbalanced water using. The essential role of Mekong River requires all member nations to cooperate effectively for the sustainable development of the region. One of the most popular methods in the field of water resource management is a trustable tool called the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). AHP is much appropriate for water resource policymaking. The literature, however, points out that there is no study to both structure the water using hierarchy and employ quantitative (objective) criteria to the AHP model in LMB case. With regard to water resource management, there are no previous studies applying AHP models to evaluating sustainable development of transboundary water resource in LMB case. This paper explores the evolution of water cooperation among Mekong countries and subsequently evaluates the water development scenarios in the LMB based on the water cooperation preferences of four LMB countries This study proposes a novel approach to analyzing, assessing water resource development scenarios characterized by sustainability indicators and to assisting in developing a suitable water policy in LMB according to the best cooperation scenario.

Managing Innovation in the Sports Equipment Industry： Upstream Process Management

The point under study is the first of such a nature. This paper investigates the management of innovation adopted by the European leader in sports equipment： Decathlon （Oxylane Group）. In recent years, vertical integration push and innovation have secured the company＇s leadership and success in a number of sports markets throughout Europe. It now has 909 stores located globally. Oxylane Group designs, manufactures, and sells sports products for sports people worldwide. It offers fitness, dance, gymnastics, and combat sports products; bicycles, equipment, and accessories; team sports products; nautical and water sports products （surf sports, diving, sailing, and kayaking products）; swimming products; mountain sports products （for hiking, mountain trailing, camping, skiing, and snow shoe hiking）; skiing and snowboarding products （for snowboarders and skiers）; and climbing and mountaineering products. The company is now a direct challenger for world sports leaders. Since the end of the 1990＇s, Decathlon different sports brands have not taken a unique and rational path to success. The company has built insights about its customers, identified and evaluated unique market opportunities, and prepared a bold game plan to seize them. By doing so, Decathlon has developed a stream of winning products. The process of new business creation generally splits into two parts： an upstream process （sensing and creating opportunities） and a downstream process （converting the selected opportunities into successful products）. Most businesses have a formal process implemented to manage the downstream part. Few that people know of have set up an equivalent process like Oxylane and Decathlon to sense and create new opportunities in the sports equipment industry. The aim of the paper is to examine how the brand has developed two of its successful product： the tent two seconds and the wetsuit ＂Inergy＂. These two products are chosen as examples to understand how the upstream process articulate with the downstream one.

Research on Storage Capacity of Compressed Air Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Equipment

Compressed air pumped hydro energy storage equipment combines compressed air energy storage technology and pumped storage technology. The water is pumped to a vessel to compress air for energy storage, and the compressed air expanses pushing water to drive the hydro turbine for power generation. The novel storage equipment saves natural gas resources, reduces carbon emission, and improves the controllability and reliability. The principle of compressed air pumped hydro energy storage is introduced and its mathematical model is built. The storage and generation process of the novel equipment is analyzed using the model. The calculation formula of the storage power is deduced in theory in different situations of isothermal and adiabatic compression. The optimal storage scheme is given when the capacity and withstand pressure of the vessel is definitive, and the max available capacity and the equipment utilization efficiency evaluation of the scheme is given.

Optimization of dynamic sequential test strategy for equipment health management

Testing is the premise and foundation of realizing equipment health management （EHM）. To address the problem that the static periodic test strategy may cause deficient test or excessive test, a dynamic sequential test strategy （DSTS） for EHM is presented. Considering the situation that equipment health state is not completely observable in reality, a DSTS optimization method based on partially observable semi-Markov decision pro- cess （POSMDP） is proposed. Firstly, an equipment health state degradation model is constructed by Markov process, and the control limit maintenance policy is also introduced. Secondly, POSMDP is formulated in great detail. And then, POSMDP is converted to completely observable belief semi-Markov decision process （BSMDP） through belief state. The optimal equation and the corresponding optimal DSTS, which minimize the long-run ex- pected average cost per unit time, are obtained with BSMDP. The results of application in complex equipment show that the proposed DSTS is feasible and effective.

A REPLACEMENT MODEL FOR QUEUEING SYSTEM WITH REPAIRABLE ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT OF AUTOMATIC STEEL ROLLING

The optimal replacement model for the repairable queueing system con-sisting of single electrical equipment of automatic steel rolling is studied. Assumingthat the equipment after repair is not “as goed as new” , by using geometric pro-cess, we take the n

Cooperative Optimization of Reconfigurable Machine Tool Configurations and Production Process Plan

The production process plan design and configurations of reconfigurable machine tool （RMT） interact with each other. Reasonable process plans with suitable configurations of RMT help to improve product quality and reduce production cost. Therefore, a cooperative strategy is needed to concurrently solve the above issue. In this paper, the cooperative optimization model for RMT configurations and production process plan is presented. Its objectives take into account both impacts of process and configuration. Moreover, a novel genetic algorithm is also developed to provide optimal or near-optimal solutions： firstly, its chromosome is redesigned which is composed of three parts, operations, process plan and configurations of RMTs, respectively; secondly, its new selection, crossover and mutation operators are also developed to deal with the process constraints from operation processes （OP） graph, otherwise these operators could generate illegal solutions violating the limits; eventually the optimal configurations for RMT under optimal process plan design can be obtained. At last, a manufacturing line case is applied which is composed of three RMTs. It is shown from the case that the optimal process plan and configurations of RMT are concurrently obtained, and the production cost decreases 6.28% and nonmonetary performance increases 22%. The proposed method can figure out both RMT configurations and production process, improve production capacity, functions and equipment utilization for RMT.

The integrated monitoring system for running parameters of key mining equipment based on condition monitoring technology

An integrated monitoring system for running parameters of key mining equipmenton the basis of condition monitoring technology and modern communication networktechnology was developed.The system consists of a client computer with functions ofsignal acquisition and processing, and a host computer in the central control room.Thesignal acquisition module of the client computer can collect the running parameters fromvarious monitoring terminals in real-time.The DSP high-speed data processing system ofthe main control module can quickly achieve the numerical calculation for the collectedsignal.The signal modulation and signal demodulation are completed by the frequencyshift keying circuit and phase-locked loop frequency circuit, respectively.Finally, the signalis sent to the host computer for logic estimation and diagnostic analysis using the networkcommunication technology, which is helpful for technicians and managers to control therunning state of equipment.

V-BLAST BASED LDPC-CODED RELAY COOPERATION

An efficient LDPC-coded multi-relay cooperation architecture is proposed based on virtual vertical Bell Labs layered space-time （V-BLAST） processing for uplink communication, where minimum-mean-square-error （MMSE） and BP-based joint iterative decoding based on the introduced muhi-layer Tanner graph are effectively de- signed to detect and decode the corrupted received sequence at the destination. By introducing V-BLAST transmis- sion to the coded multi-relay cooperation, relays send their streams of symbols simultaneously, which increases the data rate and significantly reduces the transmission delay. The theoretical analysis and numerical results show that the new LDPC coded cooperation scheme outperforms the coded non-cooperation under the same code rate, and it also achieves a good trade-off among the performance, signal delay, and the encoding complexity associated with the number of relays. The performance gain can be credited to the proposed V-BLAST processing architecture and BP-based joint iterative decoding by the introduced multi-layer Tanner graph at a receiver-side.

ANALYSIS OF A TOW－SUPPLEMENTAL EQUIPMENT COLD STANDBY REPAIRABLE SYSTEM ON LARGE POWER STATION

This paper considers a cold standby repairable system consisting of twosupplemental equipments and a single repoirman. In the system, the failure distribu-tions and repair distributions of the two-supplemental equipments are assumed to beexponential distributions, but one supplemental equipment after repair will be “asgood as new” and the other one not. Under these assumptions, seme reliability in-dices are derived by using the geometric process and the method of supplementaryvariable.

On-line monitoring of insulation quality of high voltage electric power equipment

Discusses on-line monitoring of electric parameters, such as dielectric loss, divulging current, equivalent capacitance and running voltage, and presents an on-line monitoring system of insulation quality, based on monitoring divulging current and dielectric loss of high voltage equipment, and its advantages, such as helping people to discover the hidden problems in a timely manner, to reduce power cut and overhaul and to improve security of power supply.

Multiple mode cooperation based software engineering talents training

The main problems of the traditional software talent training are that the knowledge learned is out of touch of the industry,weak ability to solve complex engineering problems and the comprehensive quality cannot meet the requirements of enterprises.Taking the course of digital image processing as an example,this paper analyzes the key steps in the training process in details,and proposes a multiple mode collaborative based software engineering talent training mechanism,which brings the key subjects of teaching materials,teachers,students,enterprises,subjects into a unified training mechanism,so as to provide a new ideas for software talent teaching.

Development of in-situ testing equipment of rock and soil thermophysical properties

A mobile in-situ testing equipment used to detect geotechnical thermophysical properties was developed. The equipment is composed of a heat pump, frequency pumps, an electric tee joint regulator valve, some sensors, an electric control system, data acquisition and control system, which can do tests under the condition of extracting and storing subsurface heat. Applying the line source and the cylinder source heat transfer model, and combining the parameters estimation, the average thermophysieal property parameters of rock and soil will be calculated, which provides the basis for designing the ground source heat pump systems.

基于精细化管理的大型医用设备全生命周期绩效评价体系的构建

目的构建大型医用设备全生命周期绩效评价体系,为大型医用设备的精细化管理提供参考。方法采用文献回顾和专家访谈建立原始指标池,经研究小组对初始指标整理讨论后编制专家函询问卷。采用德尔菲法对遴选的40名医用设备管理相关领域专家进行函询,构建大型医用设备全生命周期绩效评价体系,采用层次分析法确定指标权重。以青岛市某三级甲等医院某分院区健康体检中心CT设备为例,开展实证分析。结果构建了大型医用设备全生命周期绩效评价体系,包含4个一级指标、12个二级指标和117个三级指标。根据此评价体系,对青岛市某三级甲等医院某分院区健康体检中心CT设备展开评价,其采购配置阶段评分为47.1分,运行管理阶段评分为37.9分,根据评价标准该CT机综合评价结果为优秀。结论本研究的专家积极程度、权威程度和协调程度均符合标准,构建的大型医用设备全生命周期绩效评价体系具有较高的科学性和可靠性,可以为大型医用设备的精细化管理提供参考。

从“化繁为简”到“繁简相生”:公共安全政民合作治理的过程机制研究——以深圳市B区义警为例

“乌卡时代”,厘清政民合作治理过程机制对于实现公共安全治理向事前预防转型至关重要。既有研究主要侧重于分析政民合作治理的前因条件与合作绩效,却忽视了对中国情境下政民合作治理过程的分析。鉴于此,以合作治理理论为基础,立足政民双主体视角,构建了基于公共安全政民合作治理“合作动机一行为过程一价值共创”的过程机制解释模型。公共安全政民合作治理是政民双方基于各自的合作动机,通过利益互融、资源互补、协调互动、信任互惠、成效助推,最终实现价值共创的循环选代过程。