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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Industrial Case Studies"”.
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Unified Total Site Heat Integration: Targeting, Optimisation and Network Design
… more practical heat recovery systems for large industrial sites, i.e. Total Sites, and overcome technical limitations of current methods. Original contributions of this thesis to literature include novel developments and applications in six areas: i) a new Total Site Heat Integration (TSHI) …
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Augmented Workforce Canvas: Towards a Tool for Integrating Operator Assistance Systems in Industry
… organisations; (c) 32 survey-guided industry case studies; (d) 108 structured industry workshops and working sessions; (e) ethnography and observations in ten different shop floor environments; (f) three industrial case studies; and (g) two in-depth evaluative industrial case studies over the …
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Gain Conditioning for Linear Model Predictive Control
… (CVs) are maintained near their setpoints. Industrial practitioners who develop MPC applications are interested in preventing erratic behavior of MPCs, which can be caused by imperfect models with ill-conditioned gain matrices. Currently, control practitioners use time-consuming methods …
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A Formal Foundation of FDI Design via Temporal Epistemic Logic
… on manual inspection and testing. Motivated by industrial case-studies from the European Space Agency, this thesis proposes a formal foundation for FDI design that covers specification, validation, verification, and synthesis. The Alarm Specification Language (ASLk) is introduced in order to …
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Design reuse in a CAD environment
… enables current design families and new design cases to be more created more efficiently. Industrial Case Studies, including a Lathe Chuck family, a Drive-End casting and a family of Filtration Systems are given to prove the methodology.
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Enhanced geothermal energy and cogeneration : design, technology and economics
… with direct process heat capacity required in industrial production today. The MIT EGS Simulator was modified to accommodate cogeneration to assess the success of such designs in three separate, industrial case studies. Overall system busbar cost for electricity produced and various …
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Engineering change modelling using a function-behaviour-structure scheme
… Finally, the application of the method to two industrial case studies involving a diesel engine and a scanning electron microscope is presented. The method evaluation indicates that the benefits of the method outweigh its application effort and pinpoints areas for further refinement.
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A Generic model for the design and analysis of production systems
This dissertation studies the process of operations systems design within the context of the manufacturing organization. Using the DRAMA (Design Routine for Adopting Modular Assembly) model as developed by a team from the IDOM Research Unit at Aston University as a starting point, the research …
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Methodology for characterization of representativeness uncertainty in performance indicator measurements of thermal and nuclear power plants
… is developed based on the analysis of four industrial Case Studies involving uncertainties in performance indicator measurements to structure the analysis. They are: Mass flow rate measurement by an orifice plate (Case Study 1), Steam Generator recirculation ratio measurement using chemical …
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Machine Learning Systems for Unsupervised Time Series Anomaly Detection
… we provide extensive experiments on two industrial case studies that demonstrate improved detection accuracy and practical usability of our system.
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The scheduling of manufacturing systems using Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques in order to find optimal/near-optimal solutions.
… on benchmark flow shop scheduling problems and industrial case studies. The hybrid GA successfully found solutions to JSSPs and is not problem dependent. The hybrid GA performance across the case studies has proved that the developed scheduling model can be applied to any real-world scheduling …
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Bayesian autoencoders for anomaly detection: Design, uncertainty quantification, and explainability with industrial applications
Detection of anomalies is a vital aspect of many industrial applications, such as condition monitoring, quality monitoring, and demand forecasting, among others. The increasing capabilities of data storage and processing systems have facilitated the use of powerful models such as autoencoders …
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Texture and bubble size measurements for modelling concentrate grade in flotation froth systems
… one of the standard instruments present on industrial flotation operations. This thesis aims to address these problems by developing improved measurement techniques and showing how these measurements can be used to model the concentrate grad e of the flotation cell being monitored in a …
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Strategies to Improve Industrial Energy Efficiency
… of energy efficiency within the context of the industrial sector by means of a thorough review of existing energy reduction strategies and a demonstration of their successful implementation. The study begins by discussing current industrial energy consumption trends around the globe and within …
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Integrated Requirements Engineering – Understanding and Bridging Gaps in Software Development
… to these have been identified through industrial case studies. Furthermore, this thesis includes two methods for supporting project teams in improving on their work practices. Both methods have been applied in live development projects and found to enable teams to reflect on their …
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Automated retrofit of heat exchanger networks
In a large industrial processing plant, a significant amount of process heat is generated using fossil fuels, contributing to New Zealand’s overall greenhouse gas emissions. While New Zealand’s renewable energy sources present potential alternatives to fossil fuels, reducing the process heat demand …
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A multi-stakeholder abridged environmentally conscious design approach
… concerns have mounted, so have academic and industrial research efforts into ways to reduce the environmental impact of products through approaches such as Environmentally Conscious Design (ECD). Existing research has not yet sought to understand the role of stakeholders in ECD. New ECD …
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Process and operator performance analysis in process operational safety
… several billion pounds per year. Independent studies of case histories by the Health and Safety Commission in the UK and by a Honeywell led industrial consortium in the US and world wide show that human errors represent the major cause of failures. In contrast to this discovery, the majority …
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Advancing Kinematic Control from Rigid Robots to Dynamic Bio-Inspired Systems for Adaptive Behaviours
… novel contributions are made. The first two are industrial case studies addressing previously unautomated tasks: potato planting and road-side litter collection, with PotatoBot and LitterBot, respectively. The limitations of rigid systems with kinematic control were mitigated by integrating …
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A new approach to modelling process and building energy flows in manufacturing industry.
… manufacturing activities cover a wide field of industrial practice and use a range of simulation software packages such as flow diagramming packages, computational fluid dynamics, discrete event tools, direct coding, optimisation tools etc. The increasing use of simulation makes it difficult for …