Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Industrial and Systems Engineering"
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Emergency Management Strategies for the Retail Industry
(2011-11-28)
Uncertain disruptions complicate inventory management for retailers because it is difficult to determine when and how to adjust order quantities to ensure high service levels before and after a possible disruption. In ...
Equivalent Age-based Opportunistic Maintenance for Wind Farms
(2020-05-15)
The wind industry is facing new challenges due to the rapid growth of wind farms all around
the world. Farm size, turbine size and a rising number of sophisticated components, the industry
has to face the challenge to ...
Estimating Project Volatility and Developing Decision Support System in Real Options Analysis
(2007-12-15)
Today’s uncertain world requires firms to have a system in place that can analyze the flexibility of their projects. Real options are utilized frequently to quantify the benefits of taking a particular risk. The real options ...
Evaluating Responses to One-handed Carrying among Older and Obese Individuals
(2018-11-30)
Manual material handling (MMH) is associated with the development of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Older and obese workers are more susceptible to MSDs in comparison to younger, non-obese workers. One-handed ...
An Evaluation Framework and Decision-Making Model for Defense Acquisition Projects - Real Options and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)
(2014-05-30)
In this dissertation, strategic decision--making models based on real options and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) are proposed to assess the value of risky defense acquisition projects. A large-scale acquisition ...
Evaluation of Evacuation Performance Using Different Locomotive Postures
(2017-07-25)
Humans may adopt atypical locomotive postures due to breathing zone constraints during
emergency evacuations. Except for walking upright, postures during evacuation have been
sparsely researched. This study evaluated ...
Evaluation of Physical Risk Factors for Musculoskeletal Disorders among Reforestation Workers in the Southeastern United States
(2018-11-30)
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are a major concern for society due to their high prevalence and the magnitude of their direct and indirect costs. Exposure to physical risk factors in the work environment ...
Evaluation of School Bus Emergency Evacuation Systems With Regard to Physical Capabilities of Young Children
(2016-03-28)
Motorized school buses have been used to transport children for over a century and are known to be the safest mode of transportation for students traveling to and from school. Between 2001 and 2008, only 1% of student ...
Evolution of the Mechanical and Microstructure Properties of SAC Alloys During Thermal Cycling
(2023-04-18)
In real-time applications, solder joints are exposed to thermal and mechanical stresses. As a result, the microstructure evolves, and mechanical characteristics deteriorate, resulting in component failure. Solders have ...
Exploring Associations Between Multiple Risk-Factors and Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders, Across Multiple Body Segments in an Automotive Manufacturing Environment
(2021-04-12)
The causes of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDs) are multifactorial, with the exact pathogenesis being unknown. Current literature provides information on several studies that investigate the role of physical ...
Exploring the Impact of Socio-technical Communication Styles on the Robustness and Innovation Potential of Global Participatory Science
(2013-04-15)
Emerging cyber-infrastructure tools are enabling scientists to transparently codevelop,
share, and communicate in real-time diverse forms of knowledge artifacts.
In this research, these collaborative environments are ...
Extreme Environment Reliability of Components for Computing with SAC305 and Alternative High Reliability Solders
(2016-05-11)
The semiconductor and packaging industries have been moving away from the use of Lead (Pb) due to the increasing awareness of the health and safety concerns surrounding its use. For many applications, the industry has moved ...
Facility layout and emerging advanced material handling optimization
(2017-07-12)
This research explores the intersection of facility layout and vehicle routing, beginning with a study on a real-world semiconductor manufacturing facility layout problem (FLP), followed by a study of facility layout ...
Fatigue Properties and Reliability of SnAgCu-Bi Solder Joints in Varying Stress Amplitudes
(2021-04-23)
The eutectic Sn-Pb solder alloys are widely used in the electronic packaging industry. However, they are being replaced by new near-eutectic solder alloys because of environment and health concerns associated with lead. ...
Fatigue Properties and Reliability of Solder Joints in BGA Assembly
(2022-12-05)
Lead-free near-eutectic Sn-Ag-Cu (SAC) solder system has raised increasing attention in the electronics industry since the hazardous effects of SnPb solders. One of the critical considerations for the reliability of an ...
Feeder Allocation Policy for a Turret Head Placement Machine Using Dynamic Programming
(2005-12-15)
The first objective of this thesis is to determine a feeder carriage allocation policy for a turret head placement machine. The feeder allocation problem deals with determining which component types have to be allocated ...
Finite Element Analysis and Life Estimation of a Permanent Cylindrical Mold with ANSYS and Coffin-Manson Approach
(2005-08-15)
Thermal fatigue is the most severe problem encountered by a permanent mold, leading to heat checking and cracking which affects the dimensional stability of the mold. Developing a methodology to determine the optimal ...
A Floor Space Valuation Method for Automotive Electronics Manufacturing
(2009-05-15)
Manufacturing complex products in order to survive the competition in the automotive electronics industry requires high volume manufacturing combined with high levels of quality and automation at a very low cost. All of ...
Flying Drone Sidekick Travelling Salesman Problem with Integrating Pickup and Delivery
(2023-10-30)
With the current growth of e-commerce, the complexity of last-mile logistics has become an essential field of study to improve customer satisfaction. Existing research has primarily focused on integrating drones for delivery ...
Generating Renewal Functions of Uniform, Gamma, Normal and Weibull Distributions for Minimal and Non Negligible Repair by Using Convolutions and Approximation Methods
(2013-11-05)
This dissertation explores renewal functions for minimal repair and non-negligible repair for the most common reliability underlying distributions Weibull, gamma, normal, lognormal, logistic, loglogistic and the uniform. ...