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Akif Alanli Mehmet - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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UAS Manager
Xios, 2011Co-Authors: Akif Alanli MehmetAbstract:The UAS (Unattended Automatic System) is one department in Zetes. The UAS is responsible for the installation of Zetes products and services for these products. Basically, the aim is to develop a form-based application for the UAS department that consists of the following important functions: Contract Management: The user can make a new contract with existing Customers and modify the existing contract with new machines or new maintenances or a new validity date. The maintenance is valid only if it is related to a valid contract. Main Agenda: The user can view all the filtered services with requested parameters in four custom calendars. The user can assign the pending service to an exact date and a technician or modify the service such as changing the technician or the service date. The assigned service will be added to the technician agenda and an automatic e-mail will be sent to the technician to inform him about his service. Technician Agenda: The logged in technician is able to view his agenda in four custom calendars in the same structure as the main agenda. Clicking on a date button, he will view the related information about his task and he is also able to change the date of a task to an available date. Repair Form: After the technician finishes his task, he fills in the repair form related to his task such as duration of service, used materials etc. When the repair form is confirmed, the invoice will be created. Emergency: Emergency is another type of service but its process is different than maintenance. The important point is that emergency is valid only for existing Customers. After all required confirmation for the emergency, it will be added to the main agenda and it will be possible to assign a date and a technician for this emergency. Some Tables such as the Customer Table correspond with the ERP system of Zetes which is called SAGE. This means that the Customer Table in our database will be updated by windows service which will be implemented by me or someone else. In case the user wants to run the application outside of Zetes\u27 local network, he has to connect to the Zetes server via VPN which stands for Virtual Private Network. VPN enables the user to connect remotely to the Zetes network and run the application as the user is in local network of Zetes. The application will be written in C# and SQL-server as a database, so I am developing the application under Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server Management Studio
Andersson Sofia - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Gender mainstreaming as a part of quality management : Götakvarteren - Skanska’s most gender equal project
Luleå tekniska universitet Institutionen för ekonomi teknik och samhälle, 2019Co-Authors: Andersson SofiaAbstract:Bakgrund: Under flera årtionden har företag arbetat med kvalitetsledning i syfte till att förbättra och utveckla sina verksamheter. Metoder och verktyg har fungerat som stöd för att möta företagets värderingar och möta de interna och externa kundernas behov med minskad mängd resurser. Nyligen utförda projekt har kunnat bekräfta att jämställdhetsintegrering fungerar som en effektiv metod vid förbättrings- och utvecklingsarbete. Metoden påstås ha positiv inverkan på företags prestanda genom bland annat förbättrad arbetsmiljö, förhöjd kreativ och innovativ förmåga hos medarbetare samt ökad förmåga att attrahera välutbildad personal. Förutom detta anses jämställdhetsintegrering även bidra till social hållbarhet och uppfylla FN:s globala mål snabbare, vilket i sin tur leder till hållbar utveckling. Syfte: Syftet med den här studien har varit att undersöka hur jämställdhetsintegrering och kvalitetsledning samverkar, samt hur jämställdhetsintegrering kan bidra till förbättring av byggprojekt. Metod: Studien har genomförts enligt fördjupad fallstudie på Skanska Fastigheter Göteborg. För att förstå fallföretagets problem och nuvarande situation utfördes kvalitativ metod med kvantitativ inslag. Studiens kvalitativ data syftade till att skapa grundlig förståelse av ämnesområdet och fallföretagets, medan inslag av kvalitativ data motsvarade statistik från fallföretaget och byggbranschen. Som analysmetod av studiens primära datainsamling utfördes en Tematisk analys och Voice Of The Customer Table (VOCT). Resultat: I studiens teoretiska referensram identifierades flera likheter mellan kvalitetsledning och jämställdhetsintegrering, där jämställdhetsintegrering ansågs betraktas som en metod för ständiga förbättringar. Efter undersökning av Skanskas nuvarande arbetssätt framgick det att det inte finns någon koppling mellan företagets kvalitetsarbete och jämställdhetsarbete. Det medför att jämställdhetsintegrering i projektet Götakvarteren kan innebära större förändring då nya tankegångar och arbetssätt måste upprättas. Däremot indikerade analysen av medarbetarnas behov att jämställda byggprojekt är fördelaktigt för företagets hållbara utveckling. Efter analysen kunde även åtgärder och rekommendationer tas fram på hur projektet Götakvarteren kan bli mer framgångsrikt och jämställt. Slutsats: Det finns en tydlig koppling mellan jämställdhetsintegrering och kvalitetsledning, där jämställdhetsintegrering kan argumenteras för att vara en kvalitetsmetod. Just som Skanskas nuvarande kvalitetsarbete bör jämställdhetsarbetet vara integrerat i den dagliga verksamheten och accepteras som en metod för ständiga förbättringar. Utifrån Skanskas nuvarande situation togs åtgärder fram på hur jämställdhetsintegrering kan bidra till kvalitetsarbete och skapa framgångsrika och jämställda byggprojekt.Background: Over decades, companies have been integrating quality management to constantly improve and develop their businesses. Techniques and tools have been used as support to meet the company’s values, and to increase external and internal Customer satisfaction with a reduce amount of resources. Recent projects have demonstrated that gender mainstreaming works as an effective approach for business improvement and development. The method is claimed to have a positive impact on the company’s business performance, for instance by improved working environment, increased creative and innovative capacity of employees and an increased ability to attract well-trained staff. In addition, it is considered that gender mainstreaming contributes to social sustainability and the achievement of the UN’s global goals faster, which in turn leads to sustainable development. Purpose: The purpose of this study has been to investigate how gender mainstreaming and quality management interact, and how gender mainstreaming can contribute to the improvement of construction projects. Methodology: The study has been carried out as an in-depth case study at Skanska Commercial Development Nordic in Gothenburg. In order to understand the business case, its problem and current situation, a qualitative methodology with quantitative data was made. The qualitative data was used to obtain a deeper understanding of the case, and the quantitative data consisted of statistics from the company and the construction industry. As method of analysis, a Thematic analysis and Voice Of The Customer Table (VOCT) was done to understand the needs of the employees at Skanska. Result: In the study’s theoretical framework, several similarities between gender mainstreaming and quality management were identified, in which gender mainstreaming could be seen as a technique within quality management. From the study of Skanska’s way of working, it emerged that there is no link between their work with quality and gender equality. That entails gender mainstreaming in the project Götakvarteren will involve major changes as new ideas and methods must be established. On the other hand, the analysis indicated that the employees need of an equal construction project would be beneficial for the company’s sustainable development. Based on the needs of the employees, recommendations have been given for how Götakvarteren could become profiTable by becoming Skanska’s most equal project. Conclusion: There is a distinct link between gender mainstreaming and quality management, in which gender mainstreaming can be argued to be a technique within quality management. Just as Skanska’s current quality management system, the work with gender equality should be integrated in the daily activities and accepted as a method for continuous improvement. After identifying the company’s challenges, opportunities and needs, actions have been developed for how gender mainstreaming can contribute to successful and equal construction projects
Rajestary Razieh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Management of postharvest decay of strawberies by using natural compounds
Università Politecnica delle Marche, 2020Co-Authors: Rajestary RaziehAbstract:Postharvest losses of fruit and vegeTables amounted up to half of the production through the chain from the field to the Customer Table. Therefore, the investigations on sustainable approaches to minimize postharvest decay and food losses would be the goal of research in the next years. In order to reduce the presence of pathogens, the application of chemical fungicides was used, however, due to potential environmental and health issues, this practice need to be evaluated carefully. Alternative approaches such as the use of edible coatings, essential oils (EOs), salts, and natural compounds (plant extracts) were emerging technologies to manage postharvest decay of fresh fruit. The aim of this work was to investigate the effectiveness of natural compounds known as plant defense inducers on postharvest decay. In the first work, we used the meta-analyses approach to investigate the potential effect of 1% chitosan on postharvest fungal pathogens, summarizing 13 years of data related to disease incidence, mycelium growth of Botrytis cinerea, Rhizopus stolonifer, Penicillium spp., Colletotrichum spp., Alternaria spp. and the activity of enzymes linked to host defense mechanisms. This meta-analysis confirmed chitosan antimicrobial and eliciting activity. The other works were focused on testing, the effectiveness of the control of postharvest decay of strawberry following the application of commercial compounds, mainly chitosan-based coating and plants essential oils. The preharvest application of (‘Chito Plant powder’,’KiForce’ ‘Prev-Am Plus’ compounds) and postharvest application of (‘Chito Plant powder’, ‘Chito Plant solution’, ‘Kaitosol’, ‘OII-YS’, ‘MeJA’, ‘3 Logy’, ‘DF-100 Forte’, ‘Prev-Am Plus’, ‘Humic acid’ compounds and bergamot, rosemary, mentha EOs, combine under hypobaric environment at 50 kPa, were tested. Gray mold, caused by B. cinerea, and Rhizopus rot, caused by R. stolonifer, were monitored after incubating fruits at 20±1 °C or 7 day storage at 4±1 °C following two days shelf life at 20±1 °C. Besides, the changes of qualitative parameters in preharvest application was analyzed. Our results showed the effectiveness of the different compounds on strawberry decay, however, among the chitosan-based coating ‘Chito Plant powder’ was the most effective compound at both pre and postharvest application at cold storage condition and in maintaining fruit quality. Rosemary and mentha EOs, combine under hypobaric environment, and sweet orange EOs with commercial formulation Prev-Am Plus following grapefruit seed extract EOs with commercial formulation DF-100Forte were the most effective compounds against gray mold infection at room temperature. Our results showed that the application of these innovative compounds was a suiTable approach for strawberry postharvest decay management
Georgewashington, Solomon George - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Performance evaluation and extension of Cachejoin in a real-life environment
'Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library', 2015Co-Authors: Georgewashington, Solomon GeorgeAbstract:Active or real-time data warehousing is becoming very popular in business intelligence domain. In order to build a real-time or active data warehouse an online processing of stream of end users’ transaction with disk-based master data is required. This is also called processing of semi-stream data. Fundamentally, this semi-stream processing is a process of joining an incoming stream data (transactional data) with the disk-based slow retrieving master data by using an effective join operator. Typically this join operator works with a limited amount of main memory which cannot hold the entire disk-based master data. Recently a number of semi-stream join algorithms have been proposed in the literature. Most of these algorithms have been tested using synthetic dataset while only a few using real-life dataset. It is always interesting to see how these algorithms behave in real environment. As each semi-stream join performs differently under the different characteristics of the stream data, it is important to select appropriate semi-stream join based on the characteristics of the stream data. Also these join algorithms use different strategies to access the disk-based master data e.g. index (clustered index or non-clustered index) or no index. Based on an intensive literature review, in this thesis we select a well-known semi-stream join CACHEJOIN (Cache Join) and implement it in MITRE 10 NZ, one of the leading home improvement and hardware retail store. We study the behavior of the algorithm under two different datasets (synthetic dataset and MITRE 10 NZ dataset). We study the performance of the algorithm under both datasets. Our performance study shows that under MITRE 10 NZ dataset CACHEJOIN performs very closer to that of synthetic dataset. As an extension of our work we find that MITRE 10 NZ incoming stream data (transactional data) needs to join with two Tables in disk-based master data. First join is performed with product Table (sc) using stock_code as a join attribute. While second join is performed with Customer Table (cs_person) using account_code as a join attribute. This gives us an opportunity to extend our existing CACHEJOIN for two-stage join. The stream tuples move to the second stage as soon as they complete the first stage. The performance of two-stage join is studied against normal CACHEJOIN using MITRE 10 NZ dataset. After analyzing the performance we are confident that extended CACHEJOIN performs reasonably well for MITRE 10 NZ real environment. As a future work, we have a plan to explore more in two-stage join by trying different semi-stream joins and find out the best join combinations, and also explore more on parallelization of running 2 parallel nodes to handle the future growth of MITRE 10 NZ transactional data
