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Exploring Structure And Role Of Engineering Asset Management System In Production Organizations, Khaled O. El-Akruti, Richard Dwight, Tieling Zhang Jan 2016

Exploring Structure And Role Of Engineering Asset Management System In Production Organizations, Khaled O. El-Akruti, Richard Dwight, Tieling Zhang

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

Little has been done in literature on the structure of Engineering Asset Management System (EAMS) and its relationship to production and organizational strategy. In this paper, the position of an EAMS within an organizational structure and its strategic role within a production organizations strategy has been explored. It is argued that the structure and mechanism of EAMS play a key role in directing the production process and linking to the organizational strategy: the absence or inadequacies of asset-related activities cause insufficient production performance that negatively impacts the strategic achievement. Production Actions are mapped with reference to the activities of the …


Case Study: A Model Based Systems Engineering (Mbse) Framework For Characterising Transportation Systems Over The Full Life Cycle, William R. Scott, Richard Fullalove, Gary Arabian, Allan P. Campbell Jan 2016

Case Study: A Model Based Systems Engineering (Mbse) Framework For Characterising Transportation Systems Over The Full Life Cycle, William R. Scott, Richard Fullalove, Gary Arabian, Allan P. Campbell

SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers

Development of transport infrastructure has significant challenges including acquisition lag, phased evolution, multiple disparate stakeholders and environment-specific issues. The Asset Standards Authority (ASA) at TfNSW is introducing MBSE to address these challenges. Instrumental to the introduction is the development of a framework that structures the available data and provides guidance and traceability between the data sets. This framework combines the enterprise-level drivers with the lower level drivers such as standards to outline a generic conceptual design for a transport system. This conceptual design is then used to guide future system development. The outcome is future project information based on greater, …


Addressing Misconceptions About Engineering Through Student-Industry Interaction In A Video-Augmented 3d Immersive Virtual World, Sasha Nikolic, Thomas Goldfinch, Mark Jian Wei Lee, Christian H. Ritz Jan 2016

Addressing Misconceptions About Engineering Through Student-Industry Interaction In A Video-Augmented 3d Immersive Virtual World, Sasha Nikolic, Thomas Goldfinch, Mark Jian Wei Lee, Christian H. Ritz

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

A key goal of engineering education is to ensure students are adequately prepared to enter professional practice. Unfortunately, students have been found to bring to university significant misconceptions about the types of work engineers perform, which can have an adverse impact on their readiness to fully appreciate and benefit from course activities. This paper presents a case study of how iSee, a collaborative online platform that allows for video conferencing within a three-dimensional immersive virtual world, was used to host a careers fair event in which students learned about the engineering profession and about the various engineering majors available to …


Engineering Hierarchical Hollow Nickel Sulfide Spheres For High-Performance Sodium Storage, Dan Zhang, Wenping Sun, Yu Zhang, Yuhai Dou, Yinzhu Jiang, Shi Xue Dou Jan 2016

Engineering Hierarchical Hollow Nickel Sulfide Spheres For High-Performance Sodium Storage, Dan Zhang, Wenping Sun, Yu Zhang, Yuhai Dou, Yinzhu Jiang, Shi Xue Dou

Australian Institute for Innovative Materials - Papers

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are considered as promising alternatives to lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) for energy storage due to the abundance of sodium, especially for grid distribution systems. The practical implementation of SIBs, however, is severely hindered by their low energy density and poor cycling stability due to the poor electrochemical performance of the existing electrodes. Here, to achieve high-capacity and durable sodium storage with good rate capability, hierarchical hollow NiS spheres with porous shells composed of nanoparticles are designed and synthesized by tuning the reaction parameters. The formation mechanism of this unique structure is systematically investigated, which is clearly revealed to …