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A Data-Integrated Simulation-Based Optimization Approach For Nurse-Patient Assignment
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-09-17)
This research develops a novel data-integrated simulation to evaluate nurse-patient assignments (SIMNA) based on a real data set provided by Baylor Regional Medical Center (Baylor) in Grapevine, Texas. Tree-based models ...
The Development Of A Design Ontology For Products And Processes
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)
This research develops a methodology called, Design Knowledge Acquisition Process (DKAP) for creating ontology of product and process design using IDEF5 and to develop a consistency matrix for checking accuracy of captured ...
The Application Of Discrete-event Simulation For Demining Strategy Evaluation
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2008-08-08)
Teams of mobile autonomous robots have been proposed for the detection and clearing of landmines. Several competing strategies for automated mine detection have been proposed. This paper will discuss the development of a ...
A Dynamic Multiple Stage, Multiple Objective Optimization Model With An Application To A Wastewater Treatment System
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2008-08-08)
Decision-making for complex dynamic systems involves multiple objectives. Various methods balance the tradeoffs of multiple objectives, the most popular being weighted-sum and constraint-based methods. Under convexity ...
Sealing And Lamination Of Microfluidic Devices
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2008-09-17)
A difficult problem facing microfluidic manufacturing of devices remains that often material requirements force device designers to choose materials that are difficult to bond, seal or enclose. Examples of these materials ...
An Analytical Performance Management Framework Enabiling Enterprise Strategy Management
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)
Performance management has gained noticeable interest from both researchers and executive in the past two decades. Financial measures are no longer a primary emphasis for researchers and executives. One of the most popular ...
Methodology For Reverse Supply Chain Design In Consumer Electronics Industry
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)
Reverse Logistics (RL), the art and science of moving goods typically from the end consumer towards the upstream end of supply chains, has been the subject of many strategic meetings in organizations today. This is attributed ...
Designing Multi-objective Reverse Logistics Networks Using Genetic Algorithms
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Reverse logistics (RL) involves management of activities that include collection, sort/storage, transportation, recovery, disposal and re-distribution. The product return process is more complicated than forward logistics ...
System And Method For The Pooling Of Sterile Product
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-10-08)
This dissertation defines an automated system and method for removing the tops from individual sealed bottles and pooling the small volumes of liquid contained in each bottle together in a collection container while ...
Statistics-based Approaches To Stochastic Optimal Control Problems
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)
This dissertation develops practical approaches to stochastic optimal control problems in the absence of linear system transition functions, quadratic cost functions, and/or Gaussian random disturbances. In such type of ...