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New Warehouse Designs: Angled Aisles and Their Effects on Travel Distance
(2011-07-07)
This dissertation presents new, improved aisle designs for warehouses where there are different material flows. The goal is to reduce travel distance to pick and store an item in a warehouse. The approach is to design cross ...
Reliability of Solder Attachment Options with Lead Free for 0.4 mm Micro BGA Packages
(2011-05-16)
Electronic Modules have become an integral part in Automobiles. User friendly applications in Automobiles require high reliable electronic components to perform in harsh temperature ranges of -40 C to 165 C. Micro-electronic ...
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 ...
The Effects of Aging on the Reliability of Lead Free Fine-Pitch Electronics Packaging
(2012-06-26)
A direct and deleterious effect on packaging reliability has been observed during elevated temperature isothermal aging for fine-pitch ball grid array (BGA) packages with Sn-1.0Ag-0.5Cu (SAC105), Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu (SAC305), ...
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 ...
Wave Release Strategies for Order Fulfillment Systems with Deadlines
(2013-07-11)
A distribution center is ultimately in the business of shipping orders. Because every
customer's experience is determined by how timely and accurately an order is received,
distribution centers should focus not only on ...
Prediction of the Erector Spinae Muscle Lever Arm Distance for Biomechanical Models
(2013-04-22)
Low Back Pain (LBP) remains the U.S.’s most significant and costly injury. Improved
biomechanical modeling of the lumbar spine may allow better evaluation of LBP risk. To
calculate the forces acting on the spine, accurate ...
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. ...
Reliability of Lead-Free Electronic Package Interconnections under Harsh Environment
(2014-07-24)
Lead-free solder alloy has evolved and applied in industries for many years. The reliability is of concern for lead-free solder joints of assembled circuitry, especially those exposed to high temperature in a long period ...
Morphometric Analysis of the Human Lower Lumbar Intervertebral Discs and Vertebral Endplates: Experimental Approach and Regression Models
(2013-04-19)
Low back pain (LBP) has been a major socioeconomic problem to the modern society for decades. In industry, one of the most challenging issues in occupational ergonomics and health practices has been the reliable and accurate ...