The first step in process monitoring with control charts is to estimate process parameters. The effect of this phase, called Phase I, on online process monitoring (Phase II) performance is known to be significant. In this ...

Electricity sector in Turkey has three main activities as generation, tranmission and distribution. After the completion of privalization of electricity distribution sector in 2013, the electricity distribution activities ...

Many companies use information management systems to ensure their efficiency and internal communication. From medium-sized companies to large-scale companies, enterprise resource planning systems are used for reasons such ...

By offering quality products or services to the customers with low costs, organizations are trying to ensure sustainability and development in the national/international domains, which are becoming more and more competitive, ...

Reliability engineering focuses on analyzing the properties related with failure times of high valued items. Bayesian Networks (BNs) are an effective way of analyzing causal relations, they allow incorporating expert ...

A network is an important tool for modeling data in different domains including physics, chemistry, biology, sociology, engineering, and computer science. Most of the graphs created in these areas are non-symmetric networks ...

Bayesian Networks (BNs) are effective tools in analysis of causal relations in uncertain environments. BNs can make probabilistic calculations when a part of their variables are unknown. They can be constructed based on ...

Flexible manufacturing systems are seen as a new competitive force among contemporary manufacturing systems. This system, however, offers many advantages to the manufacturer, have led to highly complex analysis methods ...