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Sensitivity Analysis of Subjective Ergonomic Assessment Tools: Impact of Input Information Accuracy on Output (Final Scores) Generation
(2008-09-09)
Subjective ergonomic assessment tools are widely used by practitioners to detect existing or potentially hazardous conditions. Their output scores are used to design, implement, and evaluate measurements and controls in ...
The Optimum Upper Screening Limit and Optimum Mean Fill Level to Maximize Expected Net Profit in the Canning Problem for Finite Continuous Distributions
(2008-09-09)
The “canning problem” occurs when a process has a minimum specification such that any product produced below that minimum incurs a scrap/rework cost and any product over the minimum incurs a “give-away” cost. The objective ...
The Effects of Behavior-based Safety Techniques on Behavior Variation, Targeted and Non-Targeted Safe Behaviors, and Productivity and Quality in Manufacturing Facilities
(2009-02-23)
In the field of occupational safety and health, worker behavior is often associated
with the immediate cause of workplace accidents and injuries. As a result an
understanding of worker behavior is a major area of concern ...
Bottleneck Detection and Mitigation in Serial Production Systems
(2009-02-23)
A variety of analytical models have been proposed to model and analyze serial manufacturing systems. Most analytical models, however, make simplifying assumptions in order to remain mathematically tractable. These analytical ...
Finite Element Analysis and Life Estimation of a Permanent Cylindrical Mold with ANSYS and Coffin-Manson Approach
(2009-02-23)
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 ...
Knapsack problems with setup
(2008-09-09)
This research studies three integer programming models which can be applied to order acceptance in make-to-order manufacturing or regional project selection in multiple periods. All three models are the variations of the ...
Feeder Allocation Policy for a Turret Head Placement Machine Using Dynamic Programming
(2009-02-23)
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 ...
Valuation of Power Generation Investments in Deregulated Capacity Markets
(2009-02-23)
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 ...
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 ...
The Development and Representation of Occupant Performance in Building Evacuation Modeling
(2009-02-23)
Occupant characteristics are considered important features incorporated into most evacuation models. The relative scarcity of evacuation experiments in the literature, contributes to some extent to the continuous challenge ...