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  • A Vision System for Automatic Dendrometry and Forest Mapping

    Creator:
    Wells, Lucas A.
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    In pursuit of global sustainability, forestry has witnessed significant shifts in practices and the development of new technologies and ideas. Primary and secondary processing industries have made substantial efforts to increase wood utilization rates, improve occupational safety and the working environment for humans, and have exhibited interest in procuring raw...
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    Dissertation
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Project guidance Woodam Chung1 Jenny Perth2 Ed Messerlie2 Kenneth Funk1 Sinisa Todorovic1

  • Care Team Burnout: Predictors and Potential Intervention

    Creator:
    Alshaiji, Rawan A M A J
    Abstract:
    Burnout is a state of physical or emotional exhaustion and disconnectedness induced by continuous stress that affects various aspects of an individual’s life. Physicians experience burnout at a higher rate than other professions due to the highly stressful nature of their work. Consequently, physicians are at a higher risk of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    OF THE THESIS OF Rawan A M A J Alshaiji for the degree of Master of Science in Industrial

  • Impact of RFID Technology on Replenishment Decisions for Multi-Echelon Supply Chains

    Creator:
    Cavazos Sanchez, Myrna Leticia
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    Radio frequency identification (RFID) has long been regarded as an automated data collection technology that promises solutions to inefficiencies found in supply chains such as “just-in-case” inventory stock, inventory obsolescence, stockouts, and theft. However, the disappointingly slow return on RFID investment has forced companies to examine and redefine RFID initiatives....
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    : ______________________________________________________ J. David Porter, Hector A. Vergara Radio frequency identification (RFID) has long

  • Defining and comparing risks and success measures of the reference design process and traditional new product development processes

    Creator:
    Larson, Tasha M.
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    To address aggressive global competition, retain customers and increase revenue, firms are required to pursue New Product Development (NPD) projects. Ventures of this nature are risky and fail often. Numerous factors influence the survival of a project. In this research, 16 factors have been identified and selected as indicators of...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Two-stage flexible flow shop scheduling with blocking constraint and batching machines

    Creator:
    Panahi, Hadi
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    In this dissertation, a two stage flexible flow shop scheduling problem is studied, where in stage 1, there are identical batch processors (burnout ovens) and in stage 2, there are identical discrete processors (furnaces). Batch processors perform a pre-heating process on a batch of jobs at a time and discrete...
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    Dissertation
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    times. Machine-dependent setup time is realized for a job-machine pair (i, j) when job i is the first

  • A conceptual and strategy map for lean process transformation

    Creator:
    Mirdad, Waleed Khalid
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    Since the introduction of lean manufacturing by Toyota and publication by Womack and Jones, organizations have realized sizeable gains through lean process improvement. The spread of lean practices across organizations and industries – from manufacturing to healthcare and construction – requires adjustments of the lean process and, in the case...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Designed to fit : tailored technologies for medical practitioners

    Creator:
    de Brum, Silvina
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    Although electronic medical records systems (EMR) present promising benefits, they have not yet been widely adopted. A problem facing many EMR are that they are disruptive technologies; their complex hardware and software are not designed to account for the clinicians' characteristics and needs, thus, demanding a steep learning curve and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    worked with me on very tight deadlines. Committee members Dr. Kenneth Funk and Andrea Marks were also

  • An economic and environmental assessment model for microchannel device manufacturing

    Creator:
    Gao, Qi
    Abstract:
    A key application of microchannel process technology (MPT) is its implementation in heat exchanger devices, since a larger surface contact area can be realized than in conventional approaches, thus achieving high heat transfer efficiency. To justify high volume production of configurations validated as prototypes, and to select from among the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    advice. I would like to express my gratitude to Dr. Kenneth Funk, Dr. Brian Paul, Dr. Jair Lizarazo

  • A study of the impact of collaborative and simulation sessions on learning lean principles and methods

    Creator:
    Choomlucksana, Juthamas
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    This research is aimed at obtaining a better understanding of the impact of the use of collaborative and simulation sessions for learning lean principles and methods. Study participants were enrolled in a Lean Manufacturing System Engineering (IE436/536) course at Oregon State University or at three other business and engineering universities...
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    Dissertation
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    members and graduate representative, Dr. Kenneth Funk, Dr. David Porter, Dr. Darlene Russ-Eft, and Dr

  • Integrating sustainable manufacturing assessment into decision making for a production work cell

    Creator:
    Zhang, Hao
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    Sustainability has been the focus of intense discussions over the past two decades, with topics around the entire product life cycle. In the manufacturing phase, research has been focused solely on environmental impact assessment or environmental impact and cost analysis in its assessment of sustainability. However, few efforts have investigated...
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    greatly valued. The author would also like to thank Dr. Kenneth H. Funk II for advising in human systems