Production Team Research Articles

Cultivating a Team Mindset about Productivity with a Nudge: A Field Study in Hybrid Development Teams

While there has been significant study of both individuals and teams of knowledge workers, research has focused largely on one or the other, with less focus on the interaction between the two. In this paper, we explore the tensions between the individual and their team, focusing on the choices an individual makes towards their own productivity versus their team's productivity. We developed a technology probe with a team nudge that fosters recurring reflection and prompts individuals to consider how their team helps them to be productive. We examined its impact through a longitudinal field study with 48 participants. We chose to undertake this study with software development teams as they are examples of knowledge workers who collaborate on a shared set of tasks with specific goals. Our exploration took place with hybrid development teams, which have increasingly become the norm. Our analysis of a total of 8338 hourly self-reports and 1389 daily diary entries found that the team nudge increased participants' productivity ratings and team awareness, led to participants spending more time on their own tasks, reshaped their perceptions of themselves and their team, yet, in general, did not increase team cohesion or affect well-being.

Motion Study

Abstract Recently, ASME’s Video Production team visited the VISN 2 Gait and Motion Analysis Laboratory, located in a Veterans Affairs hospital in New York City, to view a study on how wounded veterans walk using their prosthetic legs.

Special Issue on Monitoring and Diagnostics of Renewable Energy Systems

Concerns about global warming and recent advances in the integration of renewable energy sources into power systems have necessitated the timely need for more powerful control and monitoring methods. The detection and diagnosis of potential to failures, at their onsets, in such power systems would improve their availability thus, increases the generation of clean energy and reduces the carbon footprint. This special issue is devoted to collection of state-of-the-art on modelling, data processing, condition monitoring, and preventive maintenance methods for renewable energy systems, including wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries and solar panels, to enhance their performance and overall effectiveness. The guest editorial would like to thank all the contributing authors for making their research outputs publicly available via this special issue. Thanks also extended to reviewers for their valuable comments for improving the quality of the submitted articles. We also would like to thank the journal’s production teams and editorial board for their assistance with the special issue.

Research Accelerator Program: A Strategic Initiative to Facilitate Interdisciplinary Collaboration That Advances Translational Research.

Developing a culture of innovative thinking and one that emphasizes clinician-researcher interaction is critical for the future of rehabilitation. We designed and implemented a strategy to build a culture of interdisciplinary communication and collaboration that facilitates translational research across several disciplines in our inpatient rehabilitation hospital. We colocated clinicians and researchers in workspaces within a new hospital and created the Research Accelerator Program-a collection of team-focused initiatives that promote communication and collaboration among researchers, clinicians, and other staff. The purpose of this article is to disseminate this strategy, which has increased staff participation in research activities and increased scientific productivity of interdisciplinary research teams over the past 8 yrs.

Application of Multivariate Reinforcement Learning Engine in Optimizing the Power Generation Process of Domestic Waste Incineration

Garbage incineration is an ideal method for the harmless and resource-oriented treatment of urban domestic waste. However, current domestic waste incineration power plants often face challenges related to maintaining consistent steam production and high operational costs. This article capitalizes on the technical advantages of big data artificial intelligence, optimizing the power generation process of domestic waste incineration as the entry point, and adopts four main engine modules of Alibaba Cloud reinforcement learning algorithm engine, operating parameter prediction engine, anomaly recognition engine, and video visual recognition algorithm engine. The reinforcement learning algorithm extracts the operational parameters of each incinerator to obtain a control benchmark. Through the operating parameter prediction algorithm, prediction models for drum pressure, primary steam flow, NOx, SO2, and HCl are constructed to achieve short-term prediction of operational parameters, ultimately improving control performance. The anomaly recognition algorithm develops a thickness identification model for the material layer in the drying section, allowing for rapid and effective assessment of feed material thickness to ensure uniformity control. Meanwhile, the visual recognition algorithm identifies flame images and assesses the combustion status and location of the combustion fire line within the furnace. This real-time understanding of furnace flame combustion conditions guides adjustments to the grate and air volume. Integrating AI technology into the waste incineration sector empowers the environmental protection industry with the potential to leverage big data. This development holds practical significance in optimizing the harmless and resource-oriented treatment of urban domestic waste, reducing operational costs, and increasing efficiency.

Monitoring The Quality of a Reverse Osmosis System in The Energy Systems of The Milk Processing Plant

The objective of the present work is to monitor and control the physicochemical quality of the osmosis water that feeds the dairy industry in our case the power plant, specifically in terms of energy services. The three energy installations fed by reverse osmosis water are the boiler room, the cold room and the compressed air. These facilities respectively allow the production of steam, the absorption of heat from water through ammonia and the production of compressed air. During a period of 30 days, we monitored the pH, conductivity, alkalinity, hydrometric title, and chlorine content on water samples at the feed tank, boiler, and condenser. The results of the majority of the experimental analyzes comply with the standards imposed except for a few days.

Implicit Incentives and Delegation in Teams

We study an infinitely repeated game of team production, where agents must supply costly effort under moral hazard. The principal also has the option to delegate an additional production-relevant decision to a team member. We provide conditions under which delegation changes the scope of peer sanction and thus influences the implicit incentives generated by the agents’ repeated interaction. Delegation can then become strictly optimal, despite misaligned preferences and symmetric information regarding the efficient decision. We show that implicit incentives under delegation are strongest in diverse teams and use our results to discuss various aspects of organizational design, including self-organized teamwork. This paper was accepted by Suraj Srinivasan, accounting. Funding: This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Project-ID 403041268—TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency]. Supplemental Material: The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.02212 .

Assessment and optimization of co-firing power plant in Thailand: Seasonal effects and dust emission concerns

In this work, the industrial-scale co-fired power plant in Thailand was analyzed and the optimization model was proposed to provide a proper fuel selection for the feedstock seasonal planning to minimize the cost of electricity generation. Also, the dust emission model was introduced in this work to investigate the environmental concern of the proposed fuel formula. The seasonal effects including feed price, properties, and availability were also included in the optimization model. The optimum solution reported a set of fuel formulas for each season that is capable of maintaining power production stability and minimizing fuel costs. Although, the global demand for coal was at its peak in the winter season, using biomass (wood chip, wood bark, and fiber) could increase the production to achieve its minimum requirement. The optimization could reduce the cost of electricity (COE) production by up to 14% (in the winter season). Also, the emission model indicated that to increase the steam production rate to meet the requirement in the summer season, a larger amount of mixed fuel consumption rate was needed. This led to an increase in dust emissions in the summer season. However, in the winter season, the result from optimization could decrease dust emissions by up to 50%. In conclusion, increasing biomass utilization is a favorable option in both economic and environmental aspects.

The Potential of Vapor Compression Heat Pumps Supplying Process Heat between 100 and 200 °C in the Chemical Industry

The supply of process heat in the chemical industry is dominated by fossil fuel combustion. Heat with temperatures up to 200 °C could, however, be supplied by vapor compression heat pumps (VCHPs), allowing for efficient electrification. However, there are still several barriers that need to be overcome before they can be widely implemented. In this work VCHPs are thermodynamically compared to heat-driven heat pumps and heat transformers, exploiting the potential of VCHPs. Moreover, steam production, distillation and drying are found to be of primary interest within the chemical industry, and potential integration points are presented and discussed for these applications. Finally, a financial analysis is performed based on a steam production and a superheated steam drying case study. The analysis calculates the levelized cost of heat (LCOH) of a VCHP, heat transformer, natural gas boiler and electric boiler. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis of the LCOH to the annual operating hours, carbon pricing and waste heat availability is presented. Generally, when no emissions trading scheme (ETS) is applied, both the VCHP and a combination of a heat transformer with auxiliary natural gas boiler appeared as the most optimal solutions, depending on the energy prices. Due to the limited utilization of waste heat by the heat transformer, an auxiliary natural gas or electric boiler is essential to fully meet the required heating load. When an ETS is being applied the VCHP generally appeared to be most financially attractive technology for both the case studies.

Power-to-methane via co-electrolysis of H2O and CO2: Reactor operation and system simulation

The traditional pathway of electrolysis based power-to-methane systems consists of water (liquid or vapor) electrolysis followed by CO2 methanation. The use of solid-oxide electrolysers allows an alternative pathway, i.e., steam and CO2 electrolysis followed by syngas methanation which can be more efficient than the traditional pathway but requires additional considerations related to cost and operation. The operation of an evaporating water-cooled CO2 methanation reactor in syngas methanation is first validated: (1) H2 concentrations between 10.3 and 21.0 % are measured with the lowest concentration occurring at higher reactant pressure and cooling water pressure and lowest reactant flow rate. (2) Increasing the CO concentration in the reactant, while supplying the stochiometric ratio of H2 and a ratio of H2O to CO of 1, increases the measured hot spot temperature but it remains under 700 °C. However, the changes in H2 concentration at the outlet are within the error of the injected reactant.Furthermore, an idealized power-to-methane system is analyzed, using various system layouts, to identify the impact of the steam production’s energy source, as well as the additional steam requirement for syngas methanation, on the system’s heating value efficiency and on the key operating variables. Restricting the internal steam production to the cooling system of the reactor causes a decrease in maximum efficiency from 94.1% to 91.1%. Directly compressing the humid mixture to be injected into the reactor as it exits the solid-oxide electrolyzer partially alleviates the stress of restricting the evaporation process to reach a maximum efficiency of 92.4%. When including heat losses in the reactor, avoiding the condensation offered a gain of up to 1.2% compared to condensing the water before the compression step.

Before Play, With Play, After Play: The Shaping of ‘formal integrity’ in the Early Drafts of Play

The present essay argues that Beckett's concept of ‘formal integrity’, which he first articulated in his discussion of Film with the production team in 1964, was in fact shaped long before Film was on Beckett's writing desk. Rather, it emerged gradually during the early genesis of Play, the work that has often been associated with Film as the two were written around the same time and deal with similar themes. In order to make this point, the essay engages with the draft material in a recently discovered notebook that contains the earliest stage of the play's genesis – the manuscripts that were long considered lost and not recoverable. While paying due attention to the relevance to Play of the other works populating the notebook, the main focus lies on the development of what it terms Beckett's conceptual (rather than textual) writing style, which is a consequence of his quest for ‘formal integrity’. More specifically, the essay demonstrates that this ‘formal integrity’ goes beyond Beckett's extreme attention to Play's form (something that has been noted in literature), but hinges on correspondences between both formal and textual elements. In other words, it refers just as much to the content as it does to form, but content differently conceived as compared to his earlier plays.

Hydrogen production and geometry optimization of ethanol steam reforming combining water gas shift reaction in a crossflow membrane tube reactor

Crossflow tube reactors are a novel design showing excellent H2 production and separation potential. A membrane reactor enables H2 production and separation in the same unit and helps the reaction overcome the equilibrium conversion limitations. This work investigates the performance of ethanol steam reforming (ESR) followed by a water gas shift reaction (WGSR) for H2 production and separation. Crossflow catalytic tubes are designed in ESR and WGSR, and Pd-based membrane tubes are installed behind the WGSR to permeate H2 and enhance the chemical reaction. The effects of inlet temperature, steam-to-ethanol molar (S/E) ratio, and reaction pressure on the system performance are investigated. The results showed that a higher inlet temperature lowers H2 yield, and 600 °C is the most suitable temperature for this system. The S/E ratio at 3 leads to the highest H2 recovery. Higher S/E ratios may increase ethanol conversion but result in more steam in the reactor, lowering the H2 partial pressure and recovery. Two-stage design optimization is performed for the WGSR catalytic membrane tubes. In the first stage with parametric sweep, the H2 yield and recovery are improved by 1.25% and 22.27%, respectively. In the second stage via the Nelder-Mead method, the H2 yield and recovery are further improved by 6.79% and 18.76%, respectively. The two-stage optimization in total intensifies 8.8% H2 yield and 45.22% H2 recovery. A comparison between ESR + WGSR/without membrane and ESR + WGSR + membrane with optimization suggests the H2 yield is substantially lifted by 22.26%, and only 0.34 times catalyst is applied in the system. The results show that an optimized crossflow membrane reactor has excellent prospects for effective hydrogen generation and separation.

"A New Appropriate Poetry": Gender and the Language Track in Muriel Rukeyser's A Place to Live

Abstract: Amid the active landscape of documentary film in the early 1940s, the poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a short screenplay advocating for public housing in Philadelphia. Despite its distinguished production team and Oscar nomination, A Place to Live (Brandon Films, 1941) has not been contextualized by scholarly work. This essay considers Rukeyser's narrative innovations as A Place to Live follows one family's desire for publicly funded housing. Rukeyser uses montage to establish a dialectical contrast between the conventions of male enunciatory authority and the film's female subject, who rises to an identificatory position that requires audience response.

뮤지컬 제작진의 제작 경험 네트워크가 뮤지컬 흥행에 미치는 영향

This study empirically analyses the impact of production team composition on the box office success of musicals, a prominent sector of the performing arts industry. To do so, we categorize production team teamwork into two types: interpersonal and functional, and examine the relationship between these two types of production team configurations and the total ticket sales of musicals. We collected data from the top 212 musicals in terms of ticket sales over a period of approximately three years, from July 2019 to June 2022. Based on the production team information for each performance, we formed a producer network, measured the number of co-productions of participating producers as a variable for interpersonal teamwork, and calculated betweenness centrality as a variable for functional teamwork. These were then entered into a regression analysis with total ticket sales for each production as the dependent variable. The analysis showed that experience in co-producing musicals and the average betweenness centrality of the production team had a positive effect on box office success. However, production teams with high co-production experience and high average betweenness centrality did not significantly increase box office success. This suggests that it is not easy to simultaneously achieve the dual tasks of improving production efficiency through interpersonal teamwork within a limited time frame and enhancing creativity through the combination of diversity. This study not only elucidates the theoretical relationship between production team composition in the performing arts and box office success, but also has practical implications for production team configuration strategies that can enhance the box office success of musical works.

Solar Enhanced Oil Recovery as the Solution to Enhance Oil and Gas Production for Mature Fields in Indonesia

Indonesia has a target of reducing 29% of GHG emissions by 2030 (NDC, 2022), reaching net-zero emissions in 2060 (LTS-LCCR, 2021), and obtaining 1 million BOPD oil production and 12 BSCFD gas production in 2030. Oil and gas companies have particular challenges to achieve the target in line with paying attention to national energy security despite the oil reserve and production declining since 1995 because of the maturity of the fields. In such a case, the enormous amount of remaining oil in place left by the primary and secondary production stages has led to the EOR method as the best way to improve oil production. In Indonesia's mature fields with specific reservoir conditions, steamflooding is currently a highly effective EOR method to increase oil production by 20–300% and reduce viscosity by up to 98%. However, the production of steam in huge quantities conventionally would require vast amounts of fossil fuel resources. Hence, replacing fossil fuel-derived steam with solar-derived steam would solve the twin problems of energy scarcity and greenhouse gas emissions. Solar EOR is a viable alternative to gas-fired steam production for the oil industry by using the sun's energy to generate steam. For designing the long-term Solar EOR, Ayman Solar Concentrator (ASC) technology on low-cost solar thermal energy storage will generate high-temperature steam for 24 hours all day by enabling the system to achieve higher temperatures with less mirror surface. The evaluation of annual energy output from the solar project's design could save more than 8,672,400 MMBTU/year of natural gas and cut the environmental footprint up to 1200 metric tonnes per day of net CO2 so that natural gas can be sold and allocated to various sectors. Furthermore, the economic analysis shows that solar EOR has the lowest operational. This technology's novelty is its low cost and ability to generate steam to supply it upon demand in Indonesia's ongoing steamflood project.

PENERAPAN METODE TOPSIS DALAM EVALUASI KINERJA PADA PT. BPR PANDANARAN JAYA

This study was done at PT BPR Pandanaran Jaya so that the TOPSIS (Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method could be used to improve how employee work is judged. Employee performance is an important part of a company's growth, and employee performance evaluations are done to find high-performing workers and help them improve. In this study, it was found that PT BPR Pandanaran Jaya has hardworking workers who are very committed to doing their jobs well. But there are also workers who need to work on how well they do their jobs. The TOPSIS method is used to compare how well each employee does their job based on important factors. The data showed that Linda Luciana Anggraeni and Dwi Jasminto were the employees with the best performance ratings, followed by Rudi Purnama. Mita Safira Mediana, Mia Arifah, Gea Ananda, Indra Utama, and Yunia Ningrum, on the other hand, were given lower scores for their work. Overall, PT BPR Pandanaran Jaya has high-performing workers, but some of them could do better. So, the company can use the results of this review to come up with plans to help employees grow, give them more training, and give them the help they need to improve their total performance. With these steps, PT BPR Pandanaran Jaya should be able to reach its organizational goals and keep a skilled and productive work team.

REVIEW ANALYSIS ON BIYAHE NI DREW TRAVEL EPISODES AIRED IN 2019-2021

Biyahe ni Drew is a travel documentary show in the Philippines where the host and its production crew members travels to a different destination and takes the viewers to adventures and showcases the beauty of the destinations both locally and internationally. This study is focused on reviewing the top 15 full episodes of Biyahe ni Drew from the year 2019 up to 2021 selected based on the number of views, five destinations each from the three major island groups, Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao if it were able to showcase the 4as of tourism; attractions, activities, accommodation and accessibility which is important because it provides the overall need of a tourist when visiting a destination. The data was collected with the help of Likert Scale. The results revealed that Biyahe ni Drew is more focused on showcasing the tourist attractions, but it lacks information when it comes to the accessibility of the destination. The finding of this study is beneficial to the Biyahe ni Drew production team because it was able to discuss some areas that need improvements for their show from viewer’s point of view. Also, to the researcher and other tourism students because this study provides knowledge on how they can effectively showcase Philippine destinations.

Deconvolution of an Soc-Dependent Contact Resistance in a Multilayer Pouch Cell Using Impedance Spectroscopy

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) can be used as an effective non-destructive and easy-to-implement measurement method to determine the electrochemical response and state-of-health of battery cells. However, the analysis of the individual impedance contributions of the anode and cathode in a conventional two-electrode setup is quite complex due to several overlapping processes and the dominating inductive contributions at high frequencies (f ≥ 1 kHz) [1]. Therefore, in the absence of prior knowledge at the electrode level, statements about specific SoC-dependent characteristics may lead to an erroneous analysis of the impedance data. As an example, in a study by Kollmeyer et al. [2], a SoC-dependent change of the high-frequency x-axis intercept - in the literature also often defined as the high-frequency ohmic resistance Rhf [3] - is observed, which in this case, however, rather indicates superimposed impedance contributions of an interfacial contact impedance Rcont/Qcont due to dominating inductances.To address the latter point, we simulate impedance spectra of a model electrode in blocking conditions with a contact impedance Rcont/Qcont and series-connected inductance, scaling the parameter for different geometric electrode areas Ageo. We show how, for larger electrodes, the decreasing high-frequency impedance contributions of Rcont/Qcont are increasingly superimposed by the inductance. To validate our theoretical finding, we compare laboratory-scale impedance spectra (Ageom= 0.94 cm²) acquired with a gold wire microreference (GWRE) T-cell setup with those of a large-scale cell (Ageom= 1475 cm², Fig. 1), both built with the same anode and cathode electrodes. For this, we measure SoC-dependent EIS of the NCA cathode in a 3.6 mAh NCA/Si T-cell via the GWRE, which shows an SoC-dependent contact resistance at high frequencies that is clearly visible as a high-frequency feature in the 50% SoC full-cell spectrum (f ≥ 1 kHz, Fig. 1b). In contrast, for the 5.6 Ah multilayer pouch cell with the same electrodes we see an SoC-dependent apparent high-frequency resistance Rhf app, as observed by Kollmeyer et al. [2], but, as shown in the 50% SoC impedance spectrum depicted in Fig. 1a, we do not observe the high-frequency semicircle (f ≥ 1 kHz) that was observed for the 3.6 mAh T-cell (Fig. 1b). Based on the simulation results and T-cell analysis, we can attribute the SoC dependence of the Rhf app of the multilayer pouch cell spectra to the SoC-dependent cathode contact resistance superimposed by inductances.Acknowledgments:S.H. gratefully acknowledges the financial support from the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany), under the auspices of the ExZellTUM III project (grant number 03XP0255). The authors want to thank the research battery production team at the iwb (TUM) for manufacturing the large-format pouch cells.

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Impact of trust in virtual project teams: structural equation modelling approach

Purpose This study aims to focus on model development to analyse key factors affecting trust in virtual project teams (VPTs). Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire survey was conducted on construction professionals participating in virtual teams. Structural equation modelling technique was performed to establish the effect of relevant factors on trust-building in VPTs. Findings Team performance is highly affected by the trust among the team members. Trust building can be enhanced by improving the quality of team communication, organisation culture, team bonding and team members’ characteristics. Originality/value The model developed in this study would benefit team productivity and team members’ learning in VPTs.