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COVID-19, an opportunity for developing countries?

2020

The COVID-19 outbreak was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as global pandemic in March 2020. Considering the necessity to implement rapid response to control the pandemic and the fragility and the state of need of low income countries, it will be mandatory to develop a global approach in order to reduce the spread of infection and the creation of community viral reservoirs. So far, we could hypothesize a worst case scenario in which when the COVID-19 outbreak hits a peak in Africa and in low-income countries, the majority of such countries will be unprepared, with low resources allocated for affording the viral emergency and the consequences will be catastrophic with no lesso…

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Reconfiguration: a key to handle exceptions and performance deteriorations in manufacturing operations

2005

During a manufacturing operation, exceptions may occur dynamically and unpredictably. Their occurrence may lead to the degradation of system performance or, in the worst case scenario may interrupt the production process by causing errors in the schedule plan. This paper classifies three families of exceptions: (1) out-of-order events such as machine breakdowns, (2) operational out-of-ordinary events such as rush orders and (3) deteriorations of manufacturing resource performance such as reductions of machines' utilization. In all cases, in order to maintain an adequate level of system performance, it is necessary to detect exceptions, to diagnose them quickly and to recover them by taking …

ScheduleEngineeringbusiness.industryStrategy and ManagementException handlingFlexible manufacturing systemControl reconfigurationWorst-case scenarioManagement Science and Operations ResearchDedicated lineIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringReliability engineeringOperations managementManufacturing operationsInterruptbusinessInternational Journal of Production Research
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