Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Department "Industrial Engineering"
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The thesis presents an approach to adaptive decision making strategies to reduce bottlenecks in a drilling operation and to extend tool life. It is an attempt to portray the real drilling system in a typical Flexible ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)This dissertation defines the operational problems of, and develops solution methodologies for, a distribution of multiple products into oil pipeline subject to delivery time-windows constraints. A multiple-product oil ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Queueing network-based approximation models were developed to evaluate the performance of fixed-route material-handling systems supporting a multiple workcenter manufacturing facility. In this research, we develop analytical ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)While lean manufacturing has greatly improved the efficiency of production operations, it has left US enterprises in an increasingly risky environment. Causes of manufacturing disruptions continue to multiply, and today, ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Dual head placement machines are commonly used in industry for placing components on circuit cards with great speed and accuracy. This thesis evaluates a novel approach for prescribing process plans for circuit card assembly ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)The design of facility layout takes into account a number of issues including the formation of departments, the layout of these, the determination of the material handling methods to be used, etc. To achieve an efficient ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This thesis presents a methodology for data aggregation for capacity management. It is assumed that there are a very large number of products manufactured in a company and that every product is stored in the database with ...
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(2010-01-16)Closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) management provides opportunity for cost savings through the integration of product recovery activities into traditional supply chains. Product recovery activities, such as remanufacturing, ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)When an engineering student attends four or five years of college to become a professional engineer one makes the assumption that they approach this learning process in such a way to gain the most knowledge possible. The ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)The purpose of this research is to present the design and development of a routing system, custom developed for a fence manufacturing company in the continental US. The objective of the routing module of the system is to ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)We propose a novel branch-and-price (B&P) approach to solve the maximum weighted independent set problem (MWISP). Our approach uses clones of vertices to create edge-disjoint partitions from vertex-disjoint partitions. We ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This dissertation discusses a method that will aid in diagnosing the root causes of product and process variability in complex manufacturing processes when large quantities of multivariate in-process measurement data are ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)The current Record of Study presents the qualitative and quantitative analysis of a company's network of distribution centers with the purpose of determining the convenience and the feasibility to reconfigure such a network. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)This dissertation addresses the question of choosing the best information alternative in engineering decisions. The decision maker maximizes his expected utility under uncertainty where both the action he takes and the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)A flexible workcell controller has been developed using a three level control hierarchy (workcell, workstation, equipment). The cell controller is automatically generated from a model input by the user. The model consists ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This dissertation takes into account the latest industrial trends in integrated logistical management and focuses on recent supply chain initiatives enabling the coordination of supply chain entities. The specific initiatives ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)In this thesis we use greedy randomize adaptive search procedure (GRASP) to solve the traveling salesman problem (TSP). Starting with nearest neighbor method to construct the initial TSP tour, we apply the 2-opt and the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The loading problem in a Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) lies in the allocation of operations and associated cutting tools to machines for a given set of parts subject to capacity constraints. This dissertation proposes ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This dissertation develops a set of nonlinear variation pattern identification methods that are intended to aid in diagnosing the root causes of product variability in complex manufacturing processes, in which large amounts ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Telecommunication networks form an integral part of life. Avoiding failures on these networks is always not possible. Designing network structures that survive these failures have become important in ensuring the reliability ...