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Showing 1 to 20 of 285 for “"Picking"”.
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Picking Up the Pieces
Over time wooden and metal objects, such as utility poles, construction lumber, parts from cars, trucks, farm equipment, and heavy machinery, and even an old abandoned car, have become unserviceable and discarded. Lying useless until discovered by the creative explorer, they are reclaimed and …
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Modeling picking on pharmaceutical tablets
… A more specialized case of sticking is picking when the powder is pulled away form the compact in the vicinity of debossed features. In the pharmaceutical industry, picking is solved by trial and error which is an expensive, labor intensive and time consuming affair.</p> <p>The objective …
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Practical automated picking and packing
… but have very limited solutions for split case picking. The dominant type of solutions these companies offer, such as pick-to-light or wearable RF terminals, only help human pickers to identify what needs to be picked, but does not do the actual picking. This thesis explores the business …
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Designing Order Picking Systems for Distribution Centers
… decisions involved in the design of an order picking system in a distribution center. A distribution center (DC) in a logistics system is responsible for obtaining materials from different suppliers and assembling (or sorting) them to fulfill a number of different customer orders. Order …
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Prioritization and control of order picking system
Order Picking System (OPS) efficiency at a warehouse was studied with the goal of reducing production order lead time to 8 hours. Current material flow system and strategy were studied through interviews with personnel involved. In addition, data extraction and analysis were performed using the …
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Gaining an operational edge : piece-picking process optimization
Order-picking is an integral operation in warehouses and distribution centers (DC), consuming considerable operating resources and expenses. Numerous studies have attempted to optimize the efficiency and reduce the cost of order-picking. In working with a partner company, this thesis evaluates a …
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Picking Noses in Russia: A Proposal for a Memoir
Memoir proposal
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Automatic P-wave Picking of Microseismic Events in Underground Mines
… arrival time detection performance of automatic picking algorithms, as well as the handpicking performance of human experts. The data set used in this project was collected from Malmberget mine (LKAB, Sweden) and the handpicked P-wave arrivals were prepared by multiple expert analysts from the …
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“I'm not just picking up the child, I'm picking up the family”: The experiences of school staff working with children of parents with mental health difficulties.
This research study aimed to explore the experiences of school staff working with children living with parents who are known to have mental health difficulties. Whilst acknowledging the potential vulnerability of this population, both charities and families themselves report that these children’s …
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A Sad, Sad Ghost Picking at the Hairs of Their Knuckles
A Sad, Sad Ghost Picking at the Hairs of Their Knuckles is a durational fiction film, a three-hour work of self-positioning, a film about an abstract me. However, I do not find it of substance to discuss the faculties of the film itself, but rather the context through which the film was made. …
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An integrated stock assignment model for a warehouse fast picking area
Order picking and restocking of the fast picking area have been identified as the most labor-intensive and costly activities of any distribution center. In a picker-to-item process environment, traveling is an important factor than can account up to 50% of the total labor time dedicated to order …
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Control and optimization of E. coli picking process for DNA sequencing
… in the sequencing operation's E. coli colony picking process-thereby improving efficiency-through the application of traditional operations improvement methodology. To achieve control over variability, the author first seeks to characterize the variability and identify its drivers, then to …
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Operations management in a large online retailer : inventory, scheduling and picking
… gives rise to a fundamental tradeoff between picking efficiency and sorting efficiency. We propose a batch scheduling model, generalizing existing models by allowing for more general batch processing time functions, as well as incorporating an objective related to multi-item orders. We show …
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Red ink: Native Americans picking up the pen in the colonial period
<p>This dissertation looks at the ways that Native Americans appropriated alphabetic literacy for their own purposes in the colonial period. Studies of Native writing tend to begin with the Mohegan preacher Samson Occom whose A Sermon Preached by Samson Occom (1772) is the first known publication …
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Picking up the principles: An applied linguistic analysis of the legal problem genre
… that students may require specific training in "picking up the principles". The pedagogical implications for both content and language staff teaching in this area are explored with particular reference to tertiary ESL/EFL students.
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Waveless picking : managing the system and making the case for adoption and change
Wave-based picking systems have been used as the standard for warehouse order fulfillment for many years. Waveless picking has emerged in recent years as an alternative pick scheduling system, with proponents touting the productivity and throughput gains within such a system. This paper analyzes in …
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