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Design For Manufacturability: Off-Road Toyota Bumper, Drew Donlon
Design For Manufacturability: Off-Road Toyota Bumper, Drew Donlon
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
The purpose of this project is to design a new off-road bumper that is improved from the stock form of a 1996-2002 Toyota 4Runner and a 1996-2004 Toyota Tacoma. The current state of the component is too weak to endure to off-road endeavors, and a kit bumper market is virtually untapped for these vehicles. The objectives of this project were met by redesigning the stock front bumper, conducting a finite element analysis on the model to test for strength, prototyping the bumper with CNC cut cardboard, and conducting a full cost analysis including the costs for waterjet and laser cutting …
Optimization Of Rfid System Coverage In A Manufacturing Environment, Scott D. Malatesta
Optimization Of Rfid System Coverage In A Manufacturing Environment, Scott D. Malatesta
Master's Theses
This paper compiles existing ideas, theories, and experiments across multiple disciplines to provide guidance for a company looking to implement an optimal RFID system in their production facility. The desire is to maximize the information received by the system while minimizing the cost. Four potential layouts of RFID antennas, two with overlapping antenna coverage and two with non-overlapping layouts, are first analyzed to understand the special coverage and the number of antennas required. The value of information is then quantified to determine whether higher coverage layouts are worth the additional costs associated with the higher number of antennas required. It …