Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Industrial and Systems Engineering"
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Study of the Use of Employee Perception to Assess Lean Adoption Based on the Toyota Production System and Toyota Way Model in the Chinese Automobile Industry
(2019-12-09)
In the 1980’s, the world began to notice the Toyota Motor Corporation as a leader in the automotive manufacturing industry. The Toyota Production System has been researched and emulated for its business success in cost ...
A Supply Chain Approach to Shelf Space Allocation
(2007-08-15)
The growing intensity of retail competition is forcing stores to strive for excellence in operations. In this environment, retailers have to balance the interconnected operations, such as transportation from warehouse, ...
Supply chain planning for hurricane response with information updates
(2008-08-15)
Planning inventories of supplies for the hurricane season can be
challenging. For instance, in 2004, manufacturing and retail firms
experienced stock outs because they were not prepared for responding
to the demand ...
System Safety Analysis of the Opelika Fire Department's Crawling Simulator
(2015-12-04)
Firefighters have among the most physically and psychologically challenging jobs in the world, incurring more than 80,000 injuries each year. Firefighter training is crucial, as higher knowledge and experience levels are ...
A Systematic and Data-Driven Approach for Improving Survival Analysis of Heart Transplantation
(2019-07-26)
This dissertation is developed to improve survival analysis of heart transplant surgeries by first, investigating factors that are associated with the performance of predictive machine learning algorithms, then creating ...
Taylor Kriging Metamodeling for Simulation Interpolation, Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization
(2009-04-02)
The dissertation explores Kriging metamodeling for the interpolation, sensitivity analysis and optimization of simulation models with costly computational or economic expenses. The key theoretical contribution is that a ...
Technology Acceptance in the Manufacturing Environment
(2022-11-29)
Employee technology acceptance is an important consideration for any manufacturing organization interested in implementing new technology in the workplace. Industry 4.0 introduces new technologies that can significantly ...
Test Planning and Validation through an Optimized Kriging Interpolation Process in a Sequential Sampling Adaptive Computer Learning Environment
(2012-07-27)
This dissertation explores Kriging in an adaptive computer learning environment with sequential sampling. The idea of this Design for Kriging (DFK) process was first mentioned in [1] titled “Kriging for Interpolation in ...
Thermal Cycling Reliability of Doped SnAgCu Solder Alloys after Long-Term Aging
(2021-04-21)
Eutectic SnPb (Tin-Lead) solder has been used in electronics since early days. This universal
alloy combination was used in all soldering applications because it had good mechanical
and electrical properties and hence ...
Thermal Field Mapping Technique for Friction Stir Process
(2009-12-14)
Friction Stir Welding is a solid state “green” welding method developed by The Welding Institute (UK). An internal thermal mapping instrument has been developed which allows for symmetrical mapping of the thermal fields ...
Towards the Identification of Predictor Variables for Highway Safety
(2015-12-10)
Highway safety remains one the most critical issues in the United States. In recent years, new safety programs and policies have been adopted to save more lives, prevent tragedies, and reduce economic loss. Unfortunately, ...
Trading Strategies and Risk Management for Wind Power in the Electricity Market
(2017-04-19)
The use of wind energy, one of the main renewable energy sources, has rapidly expanded around the world in past decades. However, the uncertainty and unpredictability of wind power lead to a number of challenges for both ...
Transmission Expansion Planning to Alleviate Congestion in Deregulated Power Markets
(2006-12-15)
Transmission expansion planning is a challenging task that affects all aspects of the power generation system in different ways. Since the deregulation of the power industry, the competition between power generators has ...
Using Network Analysis and Natural Language Processing Methods to Study Dark Side of Social media with Applications in Fake news and Anti-vaccine Messages
(2022-07-29)
Social media has revolutionized the way people consume information and communicate with each other. Despite the several benefits and opportunities of the advent of social media, such as crisis management and situational ...
Using pre-deployment planning for maintaining network connectivity in MANET models
(2019-06-13)
Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) allow communication with little or no network infrastructure. Assuming no infrastructure is available, user nodes are defined as service demanding and agent nodes as service providing, ...
Using Real Options Analytics to Improve the Capital Budgeting Process under Uncertainty
(2018-04-13)
Capital allocation processes are complex and time consuming in large organizations because of the diverse choices from projects proposed by various departments within the organization. Invariably these projects reveal ...
Using Symbolic Data Analysis to Detect Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in Healthcare Insurance Claims Data
(2020-05-14)
As the nation’s cost of healthcare continues to escalate, so does the exposure to instances of fraud, waste, and abuse. Multiple approaches to detecting these occurrences are in practice today and there are multiple ...
Validation of MRI-Derived Morphometric Estimations of Biomechanical Inputs to Improve Low Back Pain Risk Assessment
(2017-11-30)
Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders facing the working world. Previous LBP studies have focused on exposure to physical risk factors in the workplace such as lifting, pushing, pulling ...
Valuation of Power Generation Investments in Deregulated Capacity Markets
(2008-05-15)
Electricity is a very unique product that has yet to become efficiently storable, and it is uniform in its nature independent of what technology is being used to produce it. This factor makes the valuation of a power ...
Vehicle Routing with Cross Docks, Split Deliveries, and Multiple Use of Vehicles
(2011-09-22)
Cross docking plays a vital role in supply chain management. Cross docks can reduce the lead time of the product from supplier to retailer. The bene t of the cross dock would be reduced without e cient vehicle routing and ...