All systems can be understood using an input-process-output (IPO) model, and the system we call “innovation” is no exception. This model is likely familiar to you from information technology and ...

Our work represents one of the first attempts to assess the impact of IT (information technology) on both process output and quality. We examine the optical character recognition and barcode sorting ...

We could be here for a while. This is Zoe. Zoe knows that systems are made of inputs, processes and outputs and how they work. So, an input device is something that takes a real-world signal like ...

Industrial control systems can be categorized in two types: open-loop and closed-loop systems. The open-loop control system is a continuous control system that provides no feedback from its output.

We model a CONWIP (CONstant Work-in-Process) production line with deterministic processing times and exponential failure and repair times as a closed queueing network. We derive an approximation for ...

Demand for TSMC's advanced process support has been strong. The foundry is set to move the 3nm node to volume production in 2022, with monthly output expected to reach 100,000 wafers in 2023. It ...