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  • Analyzing manufacturing system changes using discrete event simulation

    Creator:
    Baker, Eric S.
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    This research studied the effects of changing from a traditional manufacturing system to a cell manufacturing system in a value-added wood products company. Discrete event simulation was used to describe the current system and the proposed new systems. Parts were separated into part families that shared similar processing requirements. From...
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    Masters Thesis

  • The managerial productivity diagnostic : an audit of managerial practices

    Creator:
    Rubio, Eduardo A.
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    The slow productivity growth of American organizations in comparison to that of other industrialized nations is, nowadays, causing great national concern. The time has come when traditional industrial practices must give way to innovative procedures more compatible with current business-world conditions. Among others, current managerial practices seem to need urgent...
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    Masters Thesis
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    PROD-5m 44 Time Utilization 44 Within Management 45 Between Management and the Data Bank 47

  • Integrating product design and manufacturing process : a framework and implementation

    Creator:
    Li, Yu-An
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    The importance of integrating design and manufacturing becomes apparent when the increase in the degree of difficulty of change is observed as the product development proceeds from concept to production in a serial engineering process. The greatest opportunity in design for manufacture occurs at the initial design stage before any...
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    Masters Thesis
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    difficulty of change is observed as the product development proceeds from concept to production in a serial

  • Effectiveness of using two and three-parameter distributions in place of "best-fit distributions" in discrete event simulation models of production lines

    Creator:
    Sharma, Akash
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    This study presents the results of using common two or three-parameter "default" distributions in place of "best fit distributions" in simulations of serial production lines with finite buffers and blocking. The default distributions used instead of the best-fit distribution are chosen such that they are non-negative, unbounded, and can match...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Event Simulation Models of Production Lines. Abstract approved: David S. Kim This study presents the

  • Grid search based production switching heuristic for aggregate production planning

    Creator:
    Nam, Sang-jin
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    The Production Switching Heuristic (PSH) developed by Mellichamp and Love (1978) has been suggested as a more realistic, practical and intuitively appealing approach to aggregate production planning (APP). In this research, PSH has been modified to present a more sophisticated open grid search procedure for solving the APP problem. The...
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    been observed as being inconsistent with management practices in industry. The Production Switching

  • Benchmarking in foodservice operations

    Creator:
    Johnson, Bonnie C.
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    The objective of this study was to identify usage of foodservice performance measures, important activities in foodservice benchmarking, and benchmarking attitudes, beliefs, and practices by foodservice directors. The design of this study included two parts: (1) eleven expert panelists involved in a Delphi technique to identify and rate importance of...
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    Dissertation
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    of Doctor of Philosophy in Nutrition and Food Management presented on April 9, 1998. Title

  • Dividing Complex Parts into Multiple Pieces for Advanced Joining and Additive Manufacturing

    Creator:
    Massoni, Brandon R.
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    Poor material utilization is inherent to conventional manufacturing processes, leading to high material waste and machining times. Additive manufacturing processes attempt to solve this issue by allowing production of near-net shapes, but the processes may be too expensive or infeasible. By leveraging both processes in a single part, the waste...
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    Masters Thesis
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    this issue by allowing production of near-net shapes, but the processes may be too expensive or

  • Efficient heuristics for buffer allocation in closed serial production lines

    Creator:
    Vergara Arteaga, Hector A.
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    The optimal allocation of buffers in serial production systems is one of the oldest and most researched problems in Industrial Engineering. In general, there are three main approaches to the buffer allocation problem when the objective is to maximize throughput. The first is basically a systematic trial and error procedure...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Heuristics for Buffer Allocation in Closed Serial Production Lines. Abstract approved: The optimal

  • Design and implementation of a decision support framework for evaluating manufacturing alternatives

    Creator:
    Saleh, Budiman
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    To be competitive in domestic and international markets, manufacturing management is routinely faced with the decision to automate or replace existing production facilities with advanced manufacturing technologies. Installation of advanced manufacturing technologies requires high capital investment, and there is much evidence to suggest that automation for automation's sake has proven...
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    Dissertation

  • A multi-product, multi-depot periodic distribution problem

    Creator:
    Parthanadee, Parthana
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    Physical distribution is one of the key functions in logistics systems, involving the flow of products from manufacturing plants or distribution centers through the network of transportation to consumers. The function is very costly, especially for the distribution industries. During the past decades, the significance of physical distribution has increased...
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    Dissertation
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