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Not All Influence Is Born Equal: On The Effects Of Various Types Of Behavioral Influence Relationships On Social Media, Chathurani Senevirathna

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Typically, online social influence is analyzed using a single metric approach. However, social influence is not monolithic; different users exercise different influences in different ways, and influence is correlated with the user and content-specific attributes. One such attribute could be whether the action is an initiation of a new post, a contribution to a post, or a sharing of an existing post. Thus, this dissertation uses this platform-independent action classification and models the influence as multiple entities and examines social networks through the perspective of behavioral influence propagation. Two empirical studies are present in this dissertation. The first study presents …

Learning And Decision Making In Social Media Networks, Zhecheng Qiang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Social media is a virtual community where users share news, ideas, interests, and information. Learning the information diffusion dynamics and making decisions correspondingly, e.g., selecting the seed nodes to maximize the influence, have been widely applied to the areas of viral marketing and cyber security. In this dissertation, we study the problem of learning diffusion process, i.e., infection prediction, in social media networks utilizing both feature-based machine learning methods and mathematical model-based methods. For feature-based machine learning methods, the neighborhood information is treated as an important feature together with user profile and content similarity features. For model-based methods, two distinctive …

Decoding Task-Based Fmri Data Using Graph Neural Networks, Considering Individual Differences, Maham Saeidi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a non-invasive technology that provides high spatial resolution in determining the human brain's responses and measures regional brain activity through metabolic changes in blood oxygen consumption associated with neural activity. Task fMRI provides an opportunity to analyze the working mechanisms of the human brain during specific task performance. Over the past several years, a variety of computational methods have been proposed to decode task fMRI data that can identify brain regions associated with different task stimulations. Despite the advances made by these methods, several limitations exist due to graph representations and graph embeddings transferred …

Complex Quantum Contagion: A Quantum-Like Approach For The Analysis Of Co-Evolutionary Dynamics Of Social Contagion, Ece Mutlu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Modeling the dynamics of social contagion processes has recently attracted a substantial amount of interest from researchers due to its wide applicability in network science, multi-agent systems, information science, and marketing. Unlike in biological spreading, the existence of a reinforcement effect in social contagion necessitates considering the complexity of individuals in the systems. Although many studies acknowledged the heterogeneity of the individuals in their adoption of information (or behavior), there are no studies that take into account the individuals' uncertainty during their decision-making despite its theoretical and experimental evidence in behavioral economics, decision science, cognitive science, or multi-agent systems. This …

A Contingent Approach To Studying Technical Programs In The Public Aerospace Industry, Laura Segarra

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Bibliometric evaluation of the literature indicates that a unified theory of program management does not yet exist. The vastly different definitions and implementations of programs across organizations and industries indicate that program management as an organizational concept is not well understood. As researchers have tried to make sense of various perspectives and definitions, it becomes clear that different kinds of programs exist, and further attention to their context is needed. While relationships between structural and environmental variables have been extensively researched in organizational studies, studies in program management are scant, lack incorporation of environmental variables relevant to programs and projects, …

An Exploratory Assessment Of Small Group Performance Leveraging Motion Dynamics With Optical Flow, Joshua Desantiago

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Understanding team behaviors and dynamics are important to better understand and foster better teamwork. The goal of this master's thesis was to contribute to understanding and assessing teamwork in small group research, by analyzing motion dynamics and team performance with non-contact sensing and computational assessment. This thesis's goal is to conduct an exploratory analysis of motion dynamics on teamwork data to understand current limitations in data gathering approaches and provide a methodology to automatically categorize, label, and code team metrics from multi-modal data. We created a coding schema that analyzed different teamwork datasets. We then produced a taxonomy of the …

An Experimental Investigation Of Creativity In Relation To Extracurricular Activity And Gpa In Undergraduate Engineering Students, Maria Gonzalez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Measuring creativity for engineering is paramount; previous research has shown that creativity diminishes as students advance through college. This study intends to find possible predictors for creativity in these students. These predictors include GPA, Hobbies, and Extracurriculars while using the Test of Creativity Thinking – Drawing Production (TCT-DP) as a benchmark for creativity. Participants were Junior and Senior year engineering students in Spring 2021. All eligible study participants were provided a TCT-DP and survey to complete. Individual creative ability was assessed from the resulting TCT-DP using a 13 categorical scoring matrix by independently trained evaluators using the scoring guidelines. The …

A Literature Review On Combining Heuristics And Exact Algorithms In Combinatorial Optimization, Hesamoddin Tahami, Hengameh Fakhravar

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

There are several approaches for solving hard optimization problems. Mathematical programming techniques such as (integer) linear programming-based methods and metaheuristic approaches are two extremely effective streams for combinatorial problems. Different research streams, more or less in isolation from one another, created these two. Only several years ago, many scholars noticed the advantages and enormous potential of building hybrids of combining mathematical programming methodologies and metaheuristics. In reality, many problems can be solved much better by exploiting synergies between these approaches than by “pure” classical algorithms. The key question is how to integrate mathematical programming methods and metaheuristics to achieve such …

System And Risk Analysis Of Cloud Manufacturing System, Trupti Narayan Rane

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

The Cloud manufacturing(C-Mfg) system involves remote distributed manufacturing resources and capabilities collaborating as a single virtual entity. The system receives orders for custom products and provides manufacturing as a service to the end customers. The primary activities of the system, among others, are transaction control, resource allocation and monitoring, distributed manufacturing, quality control, and delivery of consignments to the customers. The actual manufacturing is done by a network of third-party partner manufacturers providing the services to end customers, helping them with cost reduction, shorter time-to-market, and enabling efficient collaboration between manufacturers in the CMfg network. This paper aims to deep …

Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems: Analysis Of Adhesion Failure, Zachary Brooks, Tushar Goswami, Amy Neidhard-Doll, Tarun Goswami

Biomedical, Industrial & Human Factors Engineering Faculty Publications

The most critical component of the TDDS is the adhesive, which is responsible for the safety, efficacy and quality of the patch. For drug delivery to successfully occur, the patch must adhere to the surface of the contact area. If a patch has inadequate adhesion, it is likely to fall off before the entire delivery period has been satisfied, leading to risks for the patient and others who may encounter the patch. Despite the critical concerns associated with the adhesive properties of the patches, the adhesion quality and failure mechanisms have not been fully studied. If certain molecules encounter the …

Retrospective Evaluation And Framework Development Of Bone Anisotropic Material Behavior Compared With Elastic, Elastic-Plastic, And Hyper-Elastic Properties, Farah Hamandi, James T. Tsatalis, Tarun Goswami

Biomedical, Industrial & Human Factors Engineering Faculty Publications

The main motivation for studying damage in bone tissue is to better understand how damage develops in the bone tissue and how it progresses. Such knowledge may help in the surgical aspects of joint replacement, fracture fixation or establishing the fracture tolerance of bones to prevent injury. Currently, there are no standards that create a realistic bone model with anisotropic material properties, although several protocols have been suggested. This study seeks to retrospectively evaluate the damage of bone tissue with respect to patient demography including age, gender, race, body mass index (BMI), height, and weight, and their role in causing …

Backlog Burner: An Adventure Into Automated Scheduling, Anjolaoluwa J. Olubusi

Senior Independent Study Theses

The focus of this independent study is to explain the nurse scheduling problem (NSP) and use it as a basis to create an automated scheduling program. The nurse scheduling problem is an operational research problem that sets to find an optimal hospital schedule that fulfills the needs of the hospital and the personal requests of the nurses. The majority of solutions for the nurse scheduling problem are often designed within a hospital setting. The objective of this independent study is to use the solutions of the nurse scheduling problem to develop an automated scheduling program for the College of Wooster …

Investigating The Effects Of Negative Influence Gradients And Emotion Contagion On The Information Processing Capacity Of Social Media Users: Information Diffusion Modeling Approach, Nisha Baral

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

With the growing use of Online social media (OSM), users are observing a substantial amount of information in their social feeds. Moreover, people often use multiple OSM platforms because of each platform's unique features. Because of the huge volume of information present in social feeds, it restricts a user's ability to process the relevant information since the most important information may be overwhelmed by unimportant information. For information to diffuse in OSM, the receiver's attention is the most important condition. Cognition plays an important role in determining a user's attention/responsiveness. If OSM users receive the information above their cognition limits …

Exact Algorithms For Practical Instances Of The Railcar Loading Problem At Marine Container Terminals, Manwo Ng, Dung-Ying Lin

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

With the growth in global trade and its environmental footprint, sustainable modes of freight movement are increasingly important in today’s globalized world. This study focuses on on-dock rail, where the rail terminal is located within the marine container terminal. On-dock rail has in recent years become an essential mode of transportation to move containers out of congested marine container terminals. This study contributes to the literature by presenting tailored exact solution algorithms for a recently proposed optimization model to optimize the loading of double-stack trains. In particular, a 3-stage solution framework is presented for the case when rail cars have …

Evolution And Diffusion Of Icts In The Indian Railways: A Historical Analysis, Ramesh Subramanian

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

The Indian Railway system is one of the largest socio-technical systems in the world. It has existed for over 160 years, starting from the British Colonial times. It continues to play a critical role in present-day India. It’s continued functioning is dependent not only on the personnel who are employed in the railways, but also the technologies that go into the system. A critical technology in the functioning of the railway system is information and communications technologies (ICTs). ICTs are deployed in almost every facet of the railway system. But these ICTs did not manifest themselves recently. They have been …

Jitim Table Of Contents - Vol. 31 Issue 2 - 2022

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

JITIM ToC

Assessing Performance Impact Of Digital Transformation For Instructors In The Covid-19 Era, Shailja Tripathi Dr., Shubhangi Urkude Dr.

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

Digital transformation has evolved as the main issue for higher education institutions (HEIs) across the globe due to the Covid-19 outbreak. The purpose of this study is to investigate the performance impacts of digital transformation for instructors of HEIs during the pandemic. The technology-to-performance chain (TPC) model pursues to predict the influence of an information system on the performance of an individual user. Hence, TPC model is used to evaluate the performance of instructors due to digital transformation in the institutions during the Covid-19 pandemic. The data is collected from instructors of higher educational institutions. Recently, partial least squares path …

The Toyota Production System (Tps) In A Non-Traditional Manufacturing Environment: The Role Of Standardization In The Fast-Food Industry, Kevin Mccracken

Theses and Dissertations--Manufacturing Systems Engineering

The Toyota Production System (TPS), also known as Lean Manufacturing (LM), was founded in the automotive industry and has contributed to Toyota’s decades of success. This has brought much attention to TPS and how this system may be implemented in other industries. Focusing on the TPS foundational element of standardization, this study examines the impact of target cycle time (TCT) on process fluctuation in a fast-food environment. In order to observe the effects of TCT, team members within 3 production lines were timed. Times were measured before and after the addition of a TCT to the Standardized Work (STW) in …

Réduction Des Risques Lors Des Interventions En Espace Clos : Développement D’Une Base De Connaissances Sur La Prévention Intrinsèque Et La Protection Collective, Damien Burlet-Vienney, Yuvin Chinniah, Ali Bahloul, Andrés Felipe González Cortés, Capucine Ouellet, Abdallah Ben Mosbah

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Les espaces clos parmi les plus courants dans les milieux de travail au Québec sont les réservoirs, les cuves, les puits d’accès, les égouts, les tuyaux et les citernes. Les entrées en espace clos sont effectuées, entre autres, pour des raisons de maintenance (p. ex. : réparation, inspection, nettoyage, déblocage). Les risques pour la santé et la sécurité des travailleurs impliqués sont variés : atmosphérique, chimique, biologique, mécanique, physique ou liés à une chute ou au non-respect des principes ergonomiques. Dans le cadre de ce projet, une moyenne de 2,6 décès par an en espace clos au Québec sur la …

Contrôle Des Énergies Dangereuses Par Cadenassage Et Par D’Autres Méthodes Chez Les Électriciens, Les Tuyauteurs, Les Frigoristes Et Les Mécaniciens Du Secteur De La Construction : Étude Exploratoire, Damien Burlet-Vienney, Yuvin Chinniah, Ayoub Nokra

Rapports de recherche scientifique

À la différence des études précédentes de l’Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST) sur le contrôle des énergies dangereuses et sur le cadenassage, cette étude est spécifique au secteur de la construction.

En 2016, la section 2.20 « Cadenassage et autres méthodes de contrôle des énergies » a été ajoutée au Code de sécurité pour les travaux de construction (CSTC) qui régit la santé et la sécurité sur les chantiers de construction au Québec. Cette section du CSTC fait notamment référence à la notion de maître d’œuvre (MO) pour l’encadrement du contrôle des énergies …

Analyse Du Concept De Marge De Manœuvre En Ergonomie Du Point De Vue Du Contrôle De La Motricité Humaine, Philippe Corbeil, André Plamondon, Denys Denis

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Le concept de marge de manœuvre se définit comme la liberté dont dispose un travailleur pour élaborer différentes façons de travailler afin de répondre aux exigences de production, et ce, sans effet défavorable sur sa santé (Coutarel, Caroly, Vézina et Daniellou, 2015; St-Vincent et al., 2011). Une forte charge de travail jumelée à une faible latitude décisionnelle restreint l’élaboration des gestes et pourrait pénaliser ainsi la santé des opérateurs. Les connaissances actuelles des façons de faire des manutentionnaires, qu’ils soient experts ou non, ne nous permettent pas d’apprécier dans sa totalité l’ampleur de cette liberté lorsqu’un individu doit répéter …

ปัจจัยที่ส่งอิทธิพลต่อการใช้รถยนต์ไฟฟ้าในประเทศไทย : การประยุกต์ใช้วิธีการดีมาเทล, ธนะรัตน์ บริสุทธิ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ปัจจุบันจำนวนผู้ใช้งานรถยนต์ไฟฟ้าในประเทศไทยเติบโตขึ้นอย่างก้าวกระโดด แต่ก็ยังมีจำนวนไม่มากนัก เมื่อเทียบกับจำนวนผู้ใช้งานรถยนต์แบบสันดาปที่มีมาแต่ดั้งเดิม ซึ่งปัญหาดังกล่าวอาจมีที่มาจากหลากหลายปัจจัย งานวิจัยนี้จึงถูกจัดทำขึ้นโดยมีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อ ศึกษาปัจจัยที่ส่งอิทธิพล และมีผลกระทบต่อการใช้รถยนต์ไฟฟ้าในประเทศไทย และระบุลำดับความสำคัญของปัจจัย รวมถึงระบุกลุ่มความสัมพันธ์เชิงสาเหตุและผลกระทบระหว่างปัจจัยที่ส่งอิทธิพลต่อการใช้รถยนต์ไฟฟ้าของผู้บริโภคใน ประเทศไทย ตลอดจนเพื่อศึกษาความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างปัจจัยกลุ่มสาเหตุและกลุ่มผลกระทบที่ส่งผลกระทบต่อกัน โดยมุ่งเน้นไปที่สามปัจจัยหลัก ได้แก่ ปัจจัยการยอมรับเทคโนโลยีรถยนต์ไฟฟ้า ปัจจัยการตัดสินใจที่มีผลต่อการ ซื้อ-ใช้ รถยนต์ไฟฟ้า และปัจจัยเชิงนโยบายที่ส่งผลต่อการ ซื้อ-ใช้ รถยนต์ไฟฟ้า การวิจัยนี้เป็นการวิจัยเชิงปริมาณซึ่งใช้แบบสอบถามในการเก็บข้อมูลจากกลุ่มผู้ใช้งานรถยนต์ไฟฟ้าในประเทศไทย จำนวน 218 ตัวอย่าง จากนั้นจึงนำผลที่ได้มาวิเคราะห์ด้วยวิธีการทางสถิติ และการวิเคราะห์องค์ประกอบ (Factor Analysis) เพื่อทำการลดจำนวนตัวแปรที่ไม่เกี่ยวข้องออก รวมถึงทำการจัดกลุ่มของปัจจัยใหม่ ก่อนที่จะนำไปเก็บข้อมูลจากกลุ่มผู้เชี่ยวชาญจำนวน 17 ท่าน และนำผลที่ได้ไปวิเคราะห์ตามวิธีการดีมาเทลต่อไป ผลการวิจัยพบว่า ปัจจัยที่มีความสำคัญที่สุดสำหรับปัจจัยการยอมรับเทคโนโลยีรถยนต์ไฟฟ้า ได้แก่ ปัจจัยทัศนคติที่มีต่อการใช้งาน และปัจจัยเชิงสาเหตุที่ส่งผลกระทบต่อปัจจัยอื่นๆ มากที่สุด ได้แก่ ปัจจัยบรรทัดฐานส่วนบุคคล ในขณะที่ปัจจัยที่มีความสำคัญที่สุดสำหรับปัจจัยการตัดสินใจที่มีผลต่อการ ซื้อ-ใช้ รถยนต์ไฟฟ้า ได้แก่ ปัจจัยทางด้านผลิตภัณฑ์ และยังเป็นปัจจัยที่ส่งผลกระทบต่อปัจจัยอื่นๆ มากที่สุด อีกด้วย สำหรับปัจจัยเชิงนโยบายที่ส่งผลต่อการ ซื้อ-ใช้ รถยนต์ไฟฟ้า ปัจจัยที่มีความสำคัญที่สุด ได้แก่ ปัจจัยนโยบายแรงจูงใจการซื้อ และนอกจากนี้ปัจจัยนโยบายแรงจูงใจการซื้อยังเป็นปัจจัยที่ส่งผลกระทบต่อปัจจัยอื่นๆ มากที่สุดอีกด้วยเช่นเดียวกัน ผู้วิจัยคาดว่า ผลที่ได้จากการวิจัยจะเป็นประโยชน์ในการกำหนด พัฒนา และปรับปรุงนโยบายของภาครัฐบาล และเอกชนในการส่งเสริมการใช้งานรถยนต์ไฟฟ้า ตลอดจนการส่งเสริมภาคอุตสาหกรรมการผลิต และการลงทุนในธุรกิจรถยนต์ไฟฟ้าในประเทศไทยให้ยั่งยืนต่อไปในอนาคต

การคาดการณ์เวลาเดินทางบนท้องถนนระหว่างพิกัดสองจุดในกรุงเทพมหานคร ด้วยวิธีการเรียนรู้ของเครื่อง, ปวริศ เวชวรรณกิจกุล

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ระยะเวลาเดินทางบนท้องถนนในกรุงเทพมหานครนั้นมีความไม่แน่นอน เนื่องจากความแออัดของการจราจร อย่างไรก็ดี ข้อมูลดังกล่าวกลับมีความสำคัญในการจัดเส้นทางการเดินรถเพื่อธุรกิจ ซึ่งส่วนใหญ่มักใช้ค่าประมาณการณ์ซึ่งอาจมีความคลาดเคลื่อนไปจากความเป็นจริง ส่งผลทำให้ประสิทธิภาพของแผนงานดังกล่าวลดต่ำลง ด้วยเหตุดังกล่าว ผู้วิจัยจึงได้ทำการพัฒนาตัวแบบที่สามารถการคาดการณ์ระยะเวลาเดินทางบนท้องถนนในกรุงเทพมหานครด้วยการเรียนรู้ของเครื่อง โดยอ้างอิงจากข้อมูลที่ทุกคนสามารถเข้าถึงได้โดยไม่มีค่าใช้จ่าย ทำให้ผู้ใช้งานสามารถนำไปใช้พัฒนา หรือบูรณาการร่วมกับแผนงานเดิมได้ เริ่มต้น ผู้วิจัยได้ทำการเก็บข้อมูล Mobile Probe จาก iTIC foundation จากนั้นจึงแปลงข้อมูลดังกล่าวออกเป็น Origin-Destination Pairs แล้วคัดเลือกเฉพาะชุดข้อมูลที่มีพิกัดอยู่ภายในเขตกรุงเทพมหานครไปใช้สร้างต้นแบบการเรียนรู้ของเครื่องผ่านอัลกอริทึมแบบต่าง ๆ จนได้อัลกอริทึมที่สามารถสร้างต้นแบบที่มีประสิทธิภาพสูงที่สุดได้ ผู้วิจัยพบว่า จากอัลกอริทึมต่าง ๆ Random forest ถือเป็นอัลกอริทึมที่สามารถสร้างต้นแบบที่มีศักยภาพสูงที่สุด ในขณะที่ XGBoost และ CatBoost มีแนวโน้มที่ดีในการนำไปพัฒนาต่อ เนื่องจากใช้ระยะเวลาในการสร้างต้นแบบน้อย

Transdisciplinarity In Experience Design: A Global Survey Of Higher Ed Programs In Exd/Xd, Yvonne Houy

Creative Collaborations

In our age of ubiquitous devices and digital media it is the perceived value of the end-to-end experience that brings people to a place. Designing inspiring and emotionally engaging end-to-end experiences requires experts in a wide range of disciplines committed to an interdisciplinary collaboration that can arrive at transdisciplinary design - the sum becomes greater than its parts.

Civil engineering, hospitality, business, psychology, digital User Experience (UX) design, and experience data analysis need to be seamless integrated with the fine and performing arts and design fields:

• Architecture, interior, landscape and sound design actively engage the senses.

• Graphic and fine arts …

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Impacts Of The Thai Canal On Liner Shipping Container Network, Krittitee Yanpisitkul

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This thesis proposes a mathematical model that imitates the flow of containers in the container liner shipping network — particularly, in the Indo-Pacific region, where the Strait of Malacca is located — in order to assess the potential impact of the proposed Thai Canal on such a network. This model is constructed based on a combination of two network problems, namely (i) the Multi-commodity Minimum Cost Network Flow Problem (MCNFP) and (ii) the Liner Shipping Fleet Deployment Problem (LSFDP), which allows a more realistic representation of international trade, while taking to account congestion at container ports at the same time. …

Importance Measure-Based Maintenance Strategy Considering Maintenance Costs, Chao Zhang, Yadong Zhang, Hongyan Dui, Shaoping Wang, Mileta M. Tomovic

Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

Maintenance is an important way to ensure the best performance of repairable systems. This paper considers how to reduce system maintenance cost while ensuring consistent system performance. Due to budget constraints, preventive maintenance (PM) can be done on only some of the system components. Also, different selections of components to be maintained can have markedly different effects on system performance. On the basis of the above issues, this paper proposes an importance-based maintenance priority (IBMP) model to guide the selection of PM components. Then the model is extended to find the degree of correlation between two components to be maintained …

Evaluating Mixed Reality Training For Calibrating Operators’ Mental Models Of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, Ganesh Pai Mangalore

Link Foundation Modeling, Simulation and Training Fellowship Reports

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) offer safety benefits by handling active driving tasks. However, due to limited operational design domain, these systems may require driver intervention, making drivers’ mental models about system limitations and capabilities an important factor when operating them. Literature suggests most drivers are uninformed or unaware of their systems (McDonald et al, 2018), lacking complete or accurate mental models. Mental models (MM) are described as reflections of operators’ knowledge of system’s purpose and various functioning states (Seppelt & Victor, 2020). Incomplete MM of systems’ limitations may also adversely affect drivers’ hazard avoidance behavior.

Improved Warehouse For Smt Material Management Using Modern Technology Retrieval System And Better Traceability, Ferdinand Mabeya

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Warehouse plays a vital role in the manufacturing and distributing goods from raw material to manufacturer and finally to the end-user. Optimizing warehouse material management will make an impact on productivity, quality, and on-time delivery. My thesis focuses on material management of surface mount (SMT) from suppliers, receiving and inspection, and warehouse to maximize efficiency. With SMT line costing over 2 million, the warehouse material management is improved. Things like cycle count and picking material are much faster. It makes the overall equipment efficiency (OEE) very low. To make this material management process possible, manufacturers must embrace Six Sigma and …

Model-Based Systems Engineering For A Small-Lift Launch Facility, Walter Mcgee Taraila, Sharanabasaweshwara Asundi

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications

A study of model‐based systems engineering (MBSE) applied to a small‐lift launch facility is presented. The research uses Systems Modeling Language (SysML) products and functional diagrams to document the ground systems on a launch pad servicing a small class payload (0–2 tons). With the projected growth in launch cadence of small‐lift rockets in the coming decade, there is a need to design increasingly complex launch systems with greater efficiency. The potential improvements in project communication, quality, and productivity are explored by developing a model following the ISO/IEC 15288 technical process framework and the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Object‐Oriented …

Optimization Model For Maintenance Planning Of Loading Equipment In Open Pit Mines, Farshid Javadnejad, Mohammad Reza Sharifi, Mohammad Hossein Basiri, Bakhtiar Ostadi

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

Maintenance plays a significant role in operating costs in the mining industry. Improving this matter controls maintenance costs and enhances productivity and production effectively. Shovels are one of the most widely used loading machines in non-continuous activities. Thus, evaluating and optimizing their availability is one of the essential solutions to achieving high productivity and cost reduction. This paper presents a mathematical programming model to maximize availability and minimize the total expected costs. We programmed the proposed nonlinear planning model using the Symbiotic Organisms Search (SOS) meta-heuristic algorithm in Matlab software. It determines the optimal maintenance intervals for different parts of …