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Business Definition for: Closed-loop System

  • a management control system which includes a provision for corrective action, taken on either a feedforward or a feedback basis

Additional Resources

Closed-Loop Control In Hardness Testing
When it comes to hardness testing, instruments that use the newer closed-loop systems are proving most effective for performing a wide range of tests. Their inherent design features offer benefits that can significantly improve performance compared to the dead-weight testers widely used in industry today. These older testers cannot match...
Tags: QCI International, Tester, Performance Management, Benefits, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Design Principles for Closed Loop Supply Chains: Optimizing Economic, Logistic and Environmental Performance
This paper studies the design principles for closed loop supply chains. Closed loop supply chains aim at closing material flows thereby limiting emission and residual waste, but also providing customer service at low cost. It further studies 'traditional' and 'new' design principles known in the literature. It appears that setting...
Tags: Sustainability, Supply Chain, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2001-10-01
Merck Implements Proscape® Closed Loop Marketing Suite of Products for United States Sales Force
Merck & Co. Teams with Proscape Technologies to Complete Transformation from Paper-Based Detailing to Integrated, Customer-Focused Closed Loop Marketing System
Tags: marketing, Merck & Co. Inc.
Research articles 2006-10-24
Speedline, Georgia Institute of Technology form technology agreement.(Suppliers)(Brief Article)
Speedline Technologies Inc. formed an exclusive agreement with the Georgia Institute of Technology for the license of patent-pending closed-loop printing technology. The intellectual property facilitates the closing of the loop between an AOI system and a printer with the intent to optimize the volume of printed...
Tags: agreement, FINANCE, Georgia Institute of Technology, printing, SOFTWARE, supplier
Research articles 2004-06-01
A cleaner alternative: geoexchange systems reduce reliance on fossil fuels: what do the jockeys at Saratoga Race Course, at least 18 public schools in New York State, and an increasing number of Manhattanites have in common? They all use an alternative cl
Types of Geoexchange Systems 1. Buried Horizontal Closed-Loop 2. Standing Column Well 3. Closed-Loop Pond System 4. Buried Vertical Closed Loop Colleges, hotels, museums, retail establishments and homes all across New York State have...
Tags: Digital Equipment Corp., Earth, Editor, GeoExchange
Research articles 2007-06-01
FarmTek Supply: Dyersville, Iowa
The new FarmTek Supply facility located in Dyersville, Iowa replaces outgrown facilities in nearby Hopkinton. The Dyersville FarmTek facility uses two separate earth connection systems. A closed-loop slinky system provides space conditioning for about 54,500 square feet of shop and storage areas, and a water well open loop system supports...
Tags: Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium, Iowa, Storage, Sales Strategy, Hardware, Sales
Case studies
Alpine Loop is closed until spring 2008
PROVO -- The Utah Department of Transportation has closed the Alpine Loop for the winter. The road runs through American Fork Canyon and Provo Canyon. It is closed from Pine Hollow to Aspen Grove. The road will remain closed until spring 2008.
Tags: Aspen Technology Inc., U.S. Department of Transportation
Research articles 2007-11-04
SpectRx closes the loop on diabetes treatment. (Commentary).
SpectRx Inc. SPRX is on a mission to develop a closed-loop system in the area of diabetes treatment - that means providing the system for individuals to both monitor their glucose levels and deliver insulin as needed. Earlier this month, th...
Tags: Sterling
Research articles 2002-01-14
The Closed Loop Medication Market: Stormy Clouds Twist the Winds
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The Healthcare IT / Life Sciences Group at Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce its 2008 Quarterly Analyst Briefing Presentation on the closed loop medication market to be held on Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. CDT / 1:00 p.m. EDT. The briefing...
Tags: Benefits, E-mail, Frost & Sullivan, HEALTHCARE, medication, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2008-03-12
IDC Predicts Big Growth in CRM Market - Industry Trend or Event - Brief Article
The industry research firm IDC recently released a report in which the company predicts enormous growth for the customer relationship management CRM market over the next four years. IDC (www.idc.com) looked at the development of CRM solutions within the context of a closed-loop CRM system. It is the data...
Tags: CRM, industry, International Data Corp., MARKETING, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2000-08-16
Omniture and Salesforce.com Jointly Announce Availability of New Omniture Closed-Loop Marketing Solution on the AppExchange
Omniture (NASDAQ: OMTR), a leading provider of online business optimization software, and salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced the availability of Omniture Closed-Loop Marketing on salesforce.com's AppExchange . Omniture Closed-Loop Marketing for Salesforce provides end-to-end visibility into...
Tags: marketing, Omniture Inc., Salesforce.com AppExchange, Salesforce.com Inc.
Research articles 2007-09-12
Mountain Cablevision Upgrades EGT Encoders for Closed-Loop; Programmable and Upgradeable Products Allows for More Digital Programming
ATLANTA -- EGT, Inc., delivering the world's best digital video quality experience, today announced that Mountain Cablevision Ltd., one of the first cable operators in the world to deploy digital simulcast services, has upgraded their EGT Constant Bit Rate CBR MPEG-2 Encoders to become Closed-Loop Variable Bit Rate VBR with...
Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., programming
Research articles 2006-02-07
McMoRan Exploration undeterred by Gov. Blanco veto threat
McMoRan Exploration Co. today said it will continue to push for approval of its Deepwater Port license application for its Main Pass Energy Hub proposed offshore liquefied natural gas project. Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said Louisiana will require the use of a closed loop regasification system, which uses natural...
Tags: technology
Research articles 2006-05-08
High-Profile Customers Demand No-Outage System
A large southeastern utility was experiencing outages on their 1984-vintage underground distribution system serving 500 high-profile commercial customers at a popular vacation spot. S&C, working with the utility, developed a system consisting of four closed-loop underground feeders utilizing S&C Remote Supervisory Vista Underground Distribution Switchgear. The main line, 600-A loop...
Tags: S&C Electric Co., Manufacturing, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
Case studies
i2 Web Seminar to Discuss Supplier Collaboration with Closed Loop Planning and Execution
DALLAS -- i2 Technologies, Inc. (OTC:ITWO), a leading provider of closed loop supply chain management solutions, today announced that i2 customer ADTRAN, the U.S. market leader in carrier and business class network access solutions, will discuss its use of i2 solutions for supplier collaboration and closed loop planning and execution...
Tags: i2 Technologies Inc., supplier
Research articles 2004-10-22
Proscape Technologies Selected to Pilot AstraZeneca's Closed Loop Marketing Program
HORSHAM, Pa. -- Proscape Technologies, the global leading provider of Closed Loop Marketing software for Life Sciences companies, today announced the expansion of its relationship with international pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, which will pilot the Proscape solution in select European markets.
Tags: AstraZeneca Plc.
Research articles 2007-09-18
Ford, Alcan close recycling loop.(Cover Story)
Byline: Jim Johnson Ford Motor Co. and Alcan Inc. are creating the first so-called closed-loop recycling system for vehicle aluminum sheet metal. The idea is to keep the aluminum trim from Ford's Chicago stamping plant away...
Tags: Alcan Inc., aluminum, Ford Motor Co.
Research articles 2002-10-28
Quebec 7H on hold, for now
Once again the developers of GE's path-breaking closed loop steam cooled H System have had to put the champagne back on ice. But, with luck, this won't be for long. A few months after celebrations to mark commercial operation of GE's first H System, Once...
Tags: General Electric Co.
Research articles 2004-02-01
Full circle: Omni Source Corp. bridges a closed-loop recycling program between a Ford Plant and an Alcan mill - Cover Story
Prompt industrial scrap is handled in many different ways, but seldom is it sent on a 1,000-mile closed-loop journey from the place it is generated back to where the original metal came from, remelted, re-rolled and shipped back as useable aluminum sheet. But that isn't stopping Ford Motor Co.,...
Tags: Alcan Inc., aluminum, Ford Motor Co., Manufacturing, MARKETING
Research articles 2003-02-01
Data Translation Announces DSP Control-Loop System Solution
MARLBORO, Mass. -- Data TranslationR, Inc. today announced a new high-speed data acquisition board that transforms a PC into a closed-loop platform for test and control applications. The DT9842 is the latest offering in the DSP FulcrumR II Series of data acquisition boards.
Tags: DSP
Research articles 2004-06-21