編修英文 (Copyediting Skills)


[ Exercise 8 ]
  1. The machines can process the family of parts, ensuring that it reaches full capacity.
  2. All parts have the same transportation costs, which limits the effectiveness of traditional approaches.
  3. The team attempts to optimize the thickness by minimizing the variation and maintaining the desired mean. This accounts for why the effects of process parameters on the silicon nitride deposition process are studied.
  4. In previous literature, they do not examine the feasibility of incorporating PS into SA to develop a more efficient stochastic optimization approach at such times as the two variables are constant.
  5. The department chairman told the research assistant that she needed to perform the simulations in the event that the experiment fails.
  6. Deterioration is set to a constant fraction of the stock level, which implies that shortages are not permitted and the demand rate is assumed to decrease exponentially.
  7. When a machine is assigned to a manufacturing cell, it attempts to reduce the total cost.
  8. The posterior objective concentrates on balancing intracell and intercell machine loadings, which allows us to formulate the cell formation problem as follows.
  9. Factors C, D, F, G and H significantly affect the response average. This indicates that F can be adjusted based on the target value.
  10. You should maintain a constant cutting speed even though the effective diameter of the cutting changes during machining.
  11. In most previous investigations, they do not consider the simultaneous effects of deterioration and inflation.
  12. A numerical example demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method, which further indicates that the total system cost will be incorrectly estimated if the deteriorating effect and/or inflationary effect are neglected.

 

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[ Exercise 9 ]

  1. Cell formation is the first and most difficult step in CMS design in that it identifies parts with similar processing requirements and the set of machines capable of processing the corresponding family of parts.
  2. Taguchi's two-step procedure is in many cases inefficient if certain conditions are not satisfied, which may prevent this procedure from attaining the minimum quality loss despite a maximized SN ratio.
  3. Factors A, C, E, F and H significantly affect SN. This means that a larger SN ratio has a better quality.
  4. It is widely recognized that a constant speed can be obtained if the spindle speed does not vary.
  5. Their consumption rate item in most cases stipulates that its demand rate depends on the stock level when it is increasing.
  6. As the machine operator, you must assume that a hazardous situation could occur on the shop floor at any time.
  7. Developing a more feasible approach to resolve the MCG problem is extremely difficult when it contains many unknown variables.
  8. The regression coefficient is statistically significant, which implies that a significant relationship exists in the following form.
  9. Only the first-order interaction effect is considered. This is since the second-order or higher-order interaction effect can generally be ignored in industry.
  10. You know that the Internet has significantly affected commercial activity worldwide.
  11. It is the responsibility of the department chairman to handle all administrative matters.
  12. On the shop floor, it is a standard safety precaution for workers to wear a safety helmet.

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[ Exercise 10 ]

  1. While the GA method searches along the contour of the optimized function, it makes no assumption about the problem space.
  2. The proposed technique is similar to industrial control charts, which makes it easily understood by the practitioner.
  3. Conventional approaches for analyzing censored data are computationally complicated and often difficult to explain to practitioners. That explains why this work presents an effective procedure based on the rank transformation of the responses.
  4. In Taiwan's semiconductor industry, they are applying state-of-the-art technologies in view of the fact that the island has a highly skilled labor force.
  5. Increasing parameter k increases the optimal ordering quantity. This affects the total system cost as well.
  6. The optimal ordering quantity increases, which increases the total system cost.
  7. The conveyor belt transports the machine part to the assembly line, where it proceeds to the workstation.
  8. Taguchi's two-step procedure can identify optimal settings of the design factors, which minimizes the expected quadratic loss when the following conditions are met.
  9. In addition to the proposed procedure considering the variability of the control factors, it can concurrently perform censored data analysis for replicated and unreplicated experiments.
  10. They showed in an earlier investigation [4] that the turned parts on CNC lathes have continuous forms.
  11. They stated in their report the manner in which changes should be made.
  12. The graduate student reported to the academic advisor that his experiments were almost finished.

 

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[ Exercise 11 ]

  1. It is our opinion that, when a decision reaches the final stage, it must be implemented promptly.
  2. No adjustment factors exist if (C1) is violated, which means that the transformation approach can be carried out.
  3. Taguchi [4] treated censoring times as actual failures, which may lead to serious deficiencies. This arises because the unobserved failure and censoring times may significantly differ.
  4. A number of studies have examined how inflation affects an inventory policy, which also considered the time value of money and different inflation rates.
  5. Increasing parameter k increases the optimal ordering quantity. This affects the total optimal total system cost.
  6. An optimal inventory policy which considers the simultaneous effects of deterioration and inflation should be developed.
  7. Optimizing a large-scale problem to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach is problematic when it adopts the integer programming model.
  8. The uniformity of the output was unstable, which made it impossible for engineers to adjust the process parameters when the wafer quality did not match the required specifications.
  9. Besides their method relying on the existence of MLEs, it does not consider the variability of control factors.
  10. Inventory replenishment policies are considered for deteriorating items in a declining market under a continuous price increase. They lead to a differential equation that describes the system's inventory dynamics.
  11. Driving a car and talking on a cellular phone at the same time is dangerous; this could cause an accident.
  12. When different approaches employ variables to implement the procedure, they encounter several obstacles.

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