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Showing 1 to 20 of 322 for “"Shops"”.
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Breaking the Mold on Job Shops
Job shops lack disciplined manufacturing strategy and execution. High variation of work results in high levels of WIP, unbalanced loads, poor shop floor visibility, underutilized machinery, and ultimately poor on time delivery, high costs, long lead times, and poor quality. To break the mold on …
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Biking, Identity, and Belonging in Twin Cities Bike Shops
Systemic and cultural change is needed in bike shops for everyone to feel welcome. Even though cyclists may not spend much time in bike shops, these spaces can have a significant impact on the relationships a rider forms with their bike and with others in the community. Drawing from feminist and …
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Biking, Identity, and Belonging in Twin Cities Bike Shops
Systemic and cultural change is needed in bike shops for everyone to feel welcome. Even though cyclists may not spend much time in bike shops, these spaces can have a significant impact on the relationships a rider forms with their bike and with others in the community. Drawing from feminist and …
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Design of new shops for the mechanical engineering department
Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-30T22:45:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 5973205.pdf: 886787 bytes, checksum: fb382e68ae2da2911f853066a216b303 (MD5) license.txt: 4813 bytes, checksum: 715c4321821a960fa1a1e91d2ac7ebce (MD5) Previous issue date: 1910
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Stochastic Scheduling for a Network of MEMS Job Shops
… of fabrication centers (Network of MEMS job shops -- NMJS) containing micromachining capabilities. These fabrication centers include commercial, academic and government fabs, which make their services available to the ordinary customer. Wafers are shipped from one facility to another until …
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Modeling, Analysis, and Algorithmic Development of Some Scheduling and Logistics Problems Arising in Biomass Supply Chain, Hybrid Flow Shops, and Assembly Job Shops
In this work, we address a variety of problems with applications to `ethanol production from biomass', `agile manufacturing' and `mass customization' domains. Our motivation stems from the potential use of biomass as an alternative to non-renewable fuels, the prevalence of `flexible manufacturing …
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Perceptions of the university of Zululand academics towards science shops
… academic staff members towards adopting Science Shops. Science Shops represent a participatory action research programme which began in the Netherlands and introduced to the University of Zululand with a view to enhancing the university-community relationships. The study specifically focused on …
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Lot Streaming in Two-Stage Flow Shops and Assembly Systems
… relates to lot streaming in two-stage flow shops and assembly shops. Lot streaming refers to the process of splitting a production lot into sublots, and then, processing the sublots on different machines simultaneously in an overlapping manner. Such a strategy allows finished material at …
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Consumer acceptance and use of online charity shops in the UK
… consumer acceptance and use of online charity shops in the United Kingdom. The study extends the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) by replacing the Price Value construct with Perceived Value and incorporating three additional constructs: Altruistic Motivation, Need …
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Precarious Empowerments: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Santiago, Chile
… account of the everyday lives of five coffee shops that fit into the lower status ‘tinted cafes’ where sexual labor is common, this thesis examines sex workers’ experiences at the intersection of class, racial, and gender hierarchies. From an intersectional perspective, my study examines how …
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Digital Spaza-shops and the Digitalisation of SMMEs' in South Africa
The purpose of the study investigates the institution of an exclusive financing model to digitalise South African SMMEs to encompass both the sourcing and the administration of development funds for digitalisation. The SMME 4IR (digitalisation) financing model provides finance for SMMEs …
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A time and cost system for the University [of Illinois] shops
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Shops, retailing and consumption in eighteenth-century provincial England: Norwich 1660-1800
The history of retail and consumption during the eighteenth-century has enjoyed interest from historians for a number of decades, yet few studies have concentrated on large cities or utilised a case study method to develop an in-depth and longitudinal understanding of change across the whole …
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Scheduling multiclass queueing networks and job shops using fluid and semidefinite relaxations
Queueing networks serve a& useful models for a variety of problems arising in modern communications, computer, and manufacturing systems. Since the optimal control problem for queueing networks is well-known to be intractable, an important theme of research during the last two decades has been the …
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Part cost computer modeling of job shops as a function of manufacturing parameters
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1990.
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Grande Wi-Fi : understanding what Wi-Fi users are doing in coffee-shops
The relationship between coffee-shops and Internet has recently been highlighted by the launch of wireless "hotspots" which provides e-access through Wi-Fi technology, in coffee-shops and several other public places in America. This thesis explores the social implications of introduction of Wi-Fi …
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Minimization of weighted tardiness in job shops using shifting bottleneck and tabu search procedures
… the total weighted tardiness in classical job shops. Job shop scheduling problems are among the hardest known combinatorial optimization problems. In particular the problem of minimizing tardiness in job shops is strongly NP-hard, which makes finding optimal solutions to it impractical in most …
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