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  • Investigating socio-technical factors in short-term continuous improvement project effectiveness

    Creator:
    Stelson, Paul Martinez
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    Lean manufacturing, or more generally continuous improvement (CI), has been the methodology behind significant improvements in quality, work in process inventory reductions, lead time reduction and cost reduction while conversely being associated with failed implementations and occasionally with unpopular work practices. This research focused on promoting understanding of CI methodology...
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    : Investigating Socio-technical Factors in Short-term Continuous Improvement Project Effectiveness Abstract

  • How personality affects creativity in concept ideation

    Creator:
    Berthelsdorf, Friederich A.
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    This thesis uses the manuscript option, and consists of a previously-published paper and a paper that has been accepted for publication. Manuscript One details an independent confirmatory study to Choo et al. (2014), which demonstrated that correlations exist between personality type and the outcome of concept ideation methods. This is...
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    paper was accepted for publication in the ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical

  • Towards a Conceptual Change Model to Support Organizational Change Efforts

    Creator:
    Hille, Joshua D.
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    Many projects fail because employees and managers have different understandings of project "success" or "value". Other projects fail because managers are unable to effectively align organizational values with those of their employees. This problem is widely understood, but there is little empirical research that specifies the nature and effect of...
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    projects are characterized by individuals at different levels of the Rasmussen Socio-technical

  • Developing a should-cost model to predict display pricing in smartphones

    Creator:
    Parameshwaran Kashi, Viswanath
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    Companies working on new product development of smartphones seek to adopt designs and methodologies to help them stay competitive. Due to its high cost contribution to a smartphone, optimizing display cost is an important part of a smartphone's cost reduction activity. Hence, strategically sourcing displays in the development of smartphones...
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    smartphone industry and separate the display cost based on the technical features of a display. Reports

  • Design and Testing of the FUEL System: Integrating Engineering and Ethnographic Methods in Global Development Efforts

    Creator:
    Ventrella, Jennifer L.
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    Clean cooking technologies and fuels have been cited as a viable way to slow climate change and reduce the health and environmental impacts associated with traditional cooking devices used by 40% of the world. While engineers in the Design for Development sector have created hundreds of stove designs that perform...
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    settings, quantifying their impact in real-world households has been a greater challenge. Both technical

  • The development and application of asystemic human error identification and remediation methodology

    Creator:
    Lee, Wei-Tau
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    This thesis describes a Systemic Vulnerability Identification and Remediation (SVIR) methodology that identifies human fallibilities and errors in complex technical processes, and recommends remediations for the errors, based on human factors principles and guidelines. The objectives of the research described in the thesis are the development of the methodology and...
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    in complex technical processes, and recommends remediations for the errors, based on human factors

  • Development of a small scale scroll expander

    Creator:
    Harada, Kevin J.
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    The organic Rankine cycle (ORC) is a versatile approach in the utilization of waste heat in the production of electricity, clean drinking water, and cooling. The efficiency of these cycles must be maximized to make them economical. Parameters for the optimization of ORCs such as evaporator and condenser temperature have...
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    important to note the significant impact that a larger diameter shaft and shaft seal can have on

  • Characterization of Two Novel Machining Processes for Difficult to Machine Materials

    Creator:
    Doran, Michael P.
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    New materials with superior mechanical properties, such as increased strength and hardness, have been developed to allow for new and improved products. However, the mechanical properties that make these materials useful also makes them difficult to process using conventional methods. New machining processes need to be developed to generate products...
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    wear, but were found to have no measurable effect on other process attributes. The second

  • Advanced Computational Modeling Methods for Floating Offshore Wind Systems

    Creator:
    Devin, Michael C.
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    Floating offshore wind energy is anticipated to become a competitive source of renewable energy by the late 2020s, but the industry must reduce costs and uncertainties associated with the technology to do so. Identifying solutions to these problems frequently relies on computational modeling, which presents technical shortcomings limiting the versatility...
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    presents technical shortcomings limiting the versatility of the modeling results. This work presents two

  • Design analysis using function-based failure propagation in failed system states

    Creator:
    Jensen, David Charles
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    For safety critical complex systems, reliability and risk analysis are important design steps. Implementing these analyzes early in the design stage can reduce costs associated with redesign and provide important information on design viability. In the past several years, various research methods have been presented in the design community to...
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    . Secondly, quantifying risk in order to make design decision is challenging when minimal technical