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A Model Characterization Of The Texas Healthcare Facilities
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014-03-10)
The Patient Protect and Affordable Care Act of 2010 became a law on March 23, 2010. This healthcare act, according to the authors, is designed to improve health services by targeting various facets of the industry: ...
RFID And RTLS Enhancement For Retained Surgical Instrument In The Body
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014-03-10)
Retained surgical items (e.g., sponges, needles, and instruments) are classified as preventable medical errors that cost the United States about $17 to $29 billion each year and the most frequently reported sentinel events ...
Eutectic Diffusion Brazing Process For Joining Aluminum Laminae With Macro- And Micro- Scale Features
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014-03-12)
Eutectic brazing occurs when two metals, such as aluminum and copper, react and diffuse together at a temperature lower than either material would melt separately. Commonly used in electronics manufacturing, this brazing ...
Optimizing The Use Of Systems Engineering On Proposals
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014-03-12)
Organizations whose primary business is executing contracts must be able to capture contracts to survive. When the contracts involve engineering complex systems, systems engineering often plays a significant role in the ...
Mathematical Programming Approaches For Land Use Planning That Limits Urban Sprawl
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014-03-12)
Sprawl has a detrimental effect on quality of life and the environment. For example, it increases our dependence on vehicles for daily tasks. This leads to increased vehicular pollution. It also increases traffic, which ...
Inventory Pooling In Petroleum Upstream Logistics Network
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014-07-14)
The petroleum industry is heading toward the era of efficiency and cost reduction. Oilfield service companies have to raise their efficiency to stay competitive. This dissertation explores the efficiency issues facing an ...
A Design And Analysis Of Computer Experiments-based Approach To Approximate Infinite Horizon Dynamic Programming With Continuous State Spaces
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014-07-14)
Dynamic programming (DP) is an optimization approach that transforms a complex problem into a sequence of simpler sub-problems at different points in stage. The original DP approach used Bellman's equation to compute the ...
Facility Capital Equipment And Labor Decision Support System Using A Discrete-event Simulation And Bottleneck Detection Approach
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014-07-14)
Market demand is constantly changing. Therefore, it is critical for companies to be flexible and willing to adapt in order to remain competitive. This study will evaluate bottleneck detection techniques that have been ...
Evaluating The Impact Of Auto ID Technologies On Oil And Gas ERP System Data Accuracy And Reliability
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014)
Most of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems currently use manual entry or mass upload methods to enter data collected from warehouse operations. These methods are highly unreliable and prone to manual error affecting ...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Routing In The Presence Of Threats
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014)
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and the importance of its role have evolved and increased recently in both civilian and military operations. In this research, we study the routing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ...