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Laser-induced liquid micro-jets for drug delivery

Jet injection devices have been studied and developed for transdermal drug delivery to avoid the use of needles. Such contact-less devices provide several advantages such as better dose control, lateral and depth localisation, lower collateral damage than ...

EPFL2021

Product assortment and space allocation strategies to attract loyal and non-loyal customers

Ralf Seifert, Anna Timonina-Farkas, Argyro Katsifou

Assortment planning deserves much attention from practitioners and academics due to its direct impact on retailers' commercial success. In this paper we focus on the increasingly popular retail practice to use combined product assortments with both "standa ...

2020

Smart Factory Information Service Bus (SIBUS) for manufacturing application: requirement, architecture and implementation

Jumyung Um, Ian Anthony Stroud

The Smart Factory is an important topic worldwide as a means for achieving Industry 4.0 in the manufacturing domain. Contemporary research on the Smart Factory has been concerned with application of the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) to the shop floor. ...

2019

Dual-Facet Mechanism in Copper Nanocubes for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction into Ethylene

Raffaella Buonsanti, Jianfeng Huang, Giulia Mangione

The product selectivity in the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide depends on the structure of the copper electrode. Cube-shaped copper catalysts, enclosed by {100} terraces, {110} edges, and {111} corners, exhibit a size-dependent enhanced only se ...

2019

Competitive Pressure on the Rate and Scope of Innovation

Kenneth Younge

While executives play an important role in leading firm innovation, they may economize on efforts to innovate when protected from takeover threat. Middle managers may curtail the rate and scope of innovation when executives are expected to reduce their inn ...

2018

Catalytic Enantioselective Double Carbopalladation/C−H Functionalization with Statistical Amplification of Product Enantiopurity: A Convertible Linker Approach

Jieping Zhu, Qian Wang, Shuo Tong, Aurore Kamilia Limouni

Combining a catalytic enantioselective reaction with dimerization in a single operation is an efficient way to upgrade the enantiomeric excesses (ee) of the product. Palladium-catalyzed reaction of N-(2-iodophenyl)-N-methyl methacrylamide derivatives with ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Diving into the dynamics of product evolution : analyzing technological discontinuities during the era of incremental change and cognitive convergence on a dominant design

Olivier Waeber

Three distinct stages describe the technological evolution of a product over time: ferment, convergence on a dominant design and an era of incremental change. Until recently, the era of incremental change has been characterized as stable and one that invol ...

EPFL2017

Machine Learning Techniques to address classification issues in Reverse Engineering

Dimitrios Kyritsis

This paper aims to provide a road map for future works related to reverse engineering field of expertise. Reverse Engineering, in a mechanical context, relates to any process working in a bottom-up fashion, namely that it goes from a lower level concept or ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2017

Dynamic Product Portfolio Management with Life Cycle Considerations

Ralf Seifert, Isik Bicer

We consider a portfolio of products in which each product probabilistically transitions through various life cycle stages. The evolution through these life cycle stages is impacted by both marketing support and product launch decisions, which are bound by ...

2016

Closed-Loop Lifecycle Management of Service and Product in the Internet of Things: Semantic Framework for Knowledge Integration

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Min-Jung Yoo

This paper describes our conceptual framework of closed-loop lifecycle information sharing for product-service in the Internet of Things (IoT). The framework is based on the ontology model of product-service and a type of IoT message standard, Open Messagi ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Minimal entropy for uniform lattices in product of hyperbolic planes

Louis Georges Eric Merlin

Let M be a quotient of H-2 x ... x H-2 (product of hyperbolic planes) by a uniform lattice of. PSL2(R))(n). We prove that, among metrics of M of prescribed volume, the sum of hyperbolic metrics has minimal volume entropy. ...

European Mathematical Soc2016

Ontologies in the context of product lifecycle management: state of the art literature review

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Soumaya El Kadiri

The use of ontologies in the context of product lifecycle management (PLM) is gaining importance and popularity, while at the same time it generates a lot of controversy in discussions within scientific and engineering communities. Yet, what is ontology? W ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2015

Towards Seamless Continuation of Knowledge in Product Lifecycle Management

Apostolos Perdikakis

The current ICT for manufacturing landscape is characterized by scattered data formats, tools and processes dedicated to different phases in the product lifecycle. Due to the diversity of tools and data formats, manufacturing struggles to cope with new tre ...

EPFL2015

Knowledge-based decision support for improving the adaptive product development process

Predrag Spasojevic

The product development process (PDP) is a complex process encompassing many very diverse activities, and involving a fairly big number of actors, spread across different professions, teams and companies. In todayâ s product development, more often than n ...

EPFL2015

Design modification supporting method based on product usage data in closed-loop PLM

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Paul Xirouchakis

Thanks to recent technology related to product monitoring and data communication, it is now possible for a company to gather various kinds of product usage data during its operation in a ubiquitous way. However, the application of the newly gathered data i ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2015

Degradation mode and criticality analysis based on product usage data

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Paul Xirouchakis

Over the last decade, a rapid development of internet, wireless mobile telecommunication, and product identification technologies make whole product life cycle visible and controllable, which can improve several operational issues over the whole product li ...

Springer London Ltd2015

On the optimal frequency of multiple generation product introductions

Ralf Seifert, Shuangqing Liao

This paper considers a firm that introduces multiple generations of a product to the market at regular intervals. We assume that the firm has only a single production generation in the market at any time. To maximize the total profit within a given plannin ...

2015

A Methodology for Holistic Lifecycle Approach as Decision Support System for Closed-loop Lifecycle Management

Fatih Karakoyun

Sustainability of their products and practices provides companies with a competitive set of methods and tools to maintain, improve and expand customer and supplier relationships and to ensure access to strategic markets. Companies pay a lot of attention to ...

EPFL2015

Observation of X(3872) in B -> X(3872)K pi decays

Olivier Schneider, Chao Wang, Yiming Li, Sun Hee Kim, Jun Yong Kim

We report the first observation of B-0 -> X(3872)(K+pi(-)) and evidence for B+ -> X(3872)(K-0 pi(+)). We measure the product of branching fractions for the former to be B(B-0 -> X(3872)(K+pi(-)) x B(X(3872) -> J/psi pi(+)pi(-)) = (7.9 +/- 1.3(stat) +/- 0.4 ...

American Physical Society2015

Reduction and Abstraction Techniques for BIP

Simon Bliudze

Reduction and abstraction techniques have been proposed to address the state space explosion problem in verification. In this paper, we present reduction and abstraction techniques for component-based systems modeled in BIP (Behavior, Interaction and Prior ...

Springer2014