Browsing Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering by Title
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Reliability Estimation Considering Customer Usage Rate Profile and Warranty Claims
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Providing more realistic reliability prediction based on small proportion of failed population or test data has always been a challenging task. Manufacturers rely heavily on reliability prediction for designing warranty ... -
Resilience Assessment for Complex Networks Based on Recovery Strategies
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The vulnerability of complex networks to unexpected disruptive events could be reduced by increasing network resilience through the efficient recovery of the damaged network. To find the most efficient recovery strategy ... -
A Review of Wheat Gluten-Based Bioplastics Processing and Their Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Bioplastics produced from agricultural resources are gaining attraction in recent years because of their sustainability and potential biodegradability. Wheat gluten (a wheat protein) is among the potential feedstocks, which ... -
A Semiparametric Trajectory Model for Cognitive Decline
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Dementia is a group of diseases that are caused by neurocognitive disorder. It is the second leading cause of death in older adults in the US. People who suffer from dementia experience memory loss and other cognitive or ... -
Solder Joint Reliability: A Unified Thermo-Mechanical Model Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Due to an unprecedented pervasiveness of electronics in high performance applications, the dependability of mission critical equipment and systems, often solely depends on the reliability of underlying embedded electronic ... -
Some Studies on Reliability Analysis of Complex Cyber-Physical Systems
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Cyber-physical systems (CPSs), a term coined in 2006 refers to the integration of computation with physical processes. Particularly, modern critical infrastructures are examples of CPSs, like smart electric power grids, ... -
Stochastic Optimization of Sustainable Industrial Symbiosis Based Hybrid Generation Bioethanol Supply Chains
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Bioethanol is becoming increasingly attractive for the reasons of energy security, diversity, and sustainability. As a result, the use of bioethanol for transportation purposes has been encouraged extensively. However, ... -
Stochastic Scheduling Optimization for Solving Patient No-show and Appointment Cancellation Problems
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Patient non-attendance is the major challenge that reduces practice efficiency, resource utilization, and clinic accessibility, and leads to increased cost and diminished quality of care, while the clinic scheduling system ... -
Study and Analysis of Automated Order Picking Systems
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Order picking is an essential part of order processing in warehousing and distribution operations and can be performed using manual, automated, or semi-automated systems. This thesis analyzes two automated systems, which ... -
A Study of Degradation Modeling and Lifetime Estimation of Capacitors
(North Dakota State University, 2021)The degradation of capacitors under accelerated stress conditions occurs in a monotonic and non-linear fashion. Several efforts have been made to model the degradation behavior of capacitor considering either physics-of-failure ... -
Study of Organizational Transformation from Socio-Technical Perspective
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Organizations are constantly striving for effective and flexible means for managing challenges due to globalization and increasing customer expectations. Many in business community attempted to implement the Toyota Production ... -
A Study on Deep Learning for Prognostics and Health Management Applications: An Evolutionary Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory Deep Neural Network Data-Driven Model for Prognostics of Aircraft Gas Turbine
(North Dakota State University, 2022)The fundamental concept of prognostics and health management (PHM) within the scope of Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) is to find an approach to evaluate the system health and predict its remaining useful life (RUL). ... -
A Study on the Impact of Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Implementation on Nursing Work Practice
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Primary care and nursing are important components of the U.S. healthcare system and are facing challenges of quality, access, cost, time spent and inefficiencies of clinical activities. Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) ... -
Study on the Relationship between Process Plan and Resource Requirement in Additive Manufacturing
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Resource consumption in additive manufacturing (AM) is often tied with the physical attribute of the fabricated part. Thus, optimizing the processes plan for minimum part fabrication resource requirement is a matter of ... -
Total Quality Management in Higher Education: A Soft Factor Approach Based on Faculty Satisfaction
(North Dakota State University, 2021)The literature review showed very few organization-wide Total Quality Management (TQM) implementations and mixed opinions regarding its compatibility in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Considering the human-centric ... -
Transparent and Crack-Free Silica Aerogels
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The process of making silica aerogels has been studied in detail over the past two decades due to its usage in a wide range of low end applications such as thermal insulators, supercapacitors etc., as well as high end ... -
Two Applications of Combinatorial Branch-and-Bound in Complex Networks and Transportation
(North Dakota State University, 2020)In this dissertation, we show two significant applications of combinatorial branch-and-bound as an exact solution methodology in combinatorial optimization problems. In the first problem, we propose a set of new group ... -
Two Data Mining Applications for Predicting Pre-Diabetes
(North Dakota State University, 2015)In this study, the performance of Logistic Regression and Decision Tree modeling is compared by using SAS Enterprise Miner for predicting pre-diabetes in US population by using several of the common factors from the type ... -
Two-Echelon Vehicle Routing Problems Using Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
(North Dakota State University, 2017)In this thesis, we investigate new multi-echelon vehicle routing problems for logistics operations using unmanned autonomous vehicles. This can provide immediate tangible outcomes, especially in high-demand areas that are ... -
Vulnerability Assessment of Interdependent Power and Communications Networks under Varying Level of Interdependency
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Maintaining a continuous and robust supply of power could be challenging task, because power networks depend on proper communication to coordinate and schedule supply, as well as recognize and mitigate failures; communication ...