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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"TECHNICAL SYSTEM"”.
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Integrated Business and Technical System Modeling of Rail Projects with Uncertainty Analysis
Overseas technical cooperation and technology transfer projects has many hurdles. An example is the overseas expansion and operation of high-speed railways, which are highly integrated systems. This research uses the Northeast Corridor SCMAGLEV project, a Japanese high speed railway system overseas …
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Facilitating and Hindering Factors in Implementing Managerial Technology: A Socio-Technical System Process
… and practices; (b) differences between economic systems of developing nations and industrialized nations (c) differences in political history, values and practices and (d) differences in organizational functioning and behavior as a result of these three conditions.</p> <p>Employing a …
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Effects of two types of network diagrams on technical systems understanding of college-level aviation mechanic students
… the effect of functional flow diagrams on technical system understanding. This study addressed the following research questions: (1) Do functional flow diagrams increase student's understanding of technical systems? (2) Do functional flow diagrams enhance students' knowledge structures of …
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Best practices in aircraft engine MRO : a study of commercial and military systems
… assets, MRO is necessary to maintain these systems in a safe and functional condition, so that they can fulfill the operational role that they were designed for. The MRO system can be understood as a complex socio-technical system organized and operated to achieve aircraft availability and …
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Bytes of Evolution : essays on applying social physics lessons for management effectiveness
How can we construct socio-technical system such that they constantly evolve to improve themselves? This is the central question of this thesis. We propose a "senseable Kaizen" philosophy. This involves the central tenets of the Kaizen strategy while incorporating passive and active sensing data …
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Analysis of transformations to socio-technical systems using agent based modeling and simulation
Transformations to socio-technical systems may be enacted at fairly low levels, i.e., through changes in technology, processes, information and workers, to obtain a change in system level performance. This thesis provides a conceptual framework and a simulation platform to a priori computationally …
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STS: a Security Requirements Engineering methodology for socio-technical Systems
Today’s software systems are situated within larger socio-technical systems, wherein they interact — by exchanging data and delegating tasks — with other technical components, humans, and organisations. The components (actors) of a socio-technical system are autonomous and loosely controllable. …
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An Empirical Investigation of Kaizen Event Effectiveness: Outcomes and Critical Success Factors
… since the mid 1990s, to date, there has been no systematic empirical research on the determinants of Kaizen event effectiveness. To address this need, a theory-driven model of event effectiveness is developed, drawn from extant Kaizen event practitioner articles and related literature on projects …
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Improved selection of technically attractive projects using knowledge management and net interactive tools
… visioning tools, titled the Laws and Lines of (Technical System) Evolution, to enable improved identification of future product and technology constructs. The Laws allow for thinking about system evolution while the Lines provide insight into implementation. These techniques are integrated to …
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The Steep Climb to Low Earth Orbit: A History of the Space Elevator Community's Battle Against the Rocket Paradigm
… themselves grappling with the vast social and technical system that supported the rocket's hegemony.
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Evaluating a continuous improvement initiative using Stakeholder Value Mapping
… observation is that lean is built upon a value system that is not always shared by the organizations trying to implement the philosophy. For example, one element of lean is that employees at all levels of the organization are expected to share ideas for improving processes. This idea might seem …
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The safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency - a study of the international politics of atomic control
… in international politics. Its subject is the system for the control of atomic energy - the safeguards system - established and administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). I have undertaken a political study of this technical system because the main purpose for which the …
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The safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency - a study of the international politics of atomic control
… in international politics. Its subject is the system for the control of atomic energy - the safeguards system - established and administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). I have undertaken a political study of this technical system because the main purpose for which the …
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Quantifying uncertainty in reliability block diagrams
Reliability analysis yields statistically derived technical system performance estimates. Traditional reliability analysis employs classical statistical techniques predicated upon asymptotic properties of large data sets. Not uncommonly, however, medium to small data sets constrain analysis efforts …
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A comparison of software project architectures : agile, waterfall, spiral, and set-based
… development project life-cycle as a socio-technical system, it can be decomposed to the most fundamental elements. Using these elements as the architectural building blocks of a project, Agile, Waterfall, Set-Based, and Spiral are each compared at the molecular level. This thesis evaluates …
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An Investigation Into the Factors Determining Digital Transformation’s Success in Government Sectors
… between strategic alignment and the socio-technical system in DT, examining how this alignment influences DT success and investigating the mechanism through which strategic alignment is effectively executed. Further, the research assesses the impact of managerial efforts as a precursor to …
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A Systemic Approach to Next Generation Infrastructure Data Elicitation and Planning Using Serious Gaming Methods
<p>Infrastructure systems are vital to the functioning of our society and economy. However, these systems are increasingly complex and are more interdependent than ever, making them difficult to manage. In order to respond to increasing demand, environmental concerns, and natural and man-made …
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Construction crew design : a lean approach
… in Lean Production, Lean Construction, Socio-Technical System theory, and Organizational Psychology. Synthesizing these existing production theories into a new unified model to develop a set of lean-based crew design guidelines that allows experimenting with different crew interactions and …
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Centralized execution, decentralized control : why we go slow in defense acquisition
The slow pace to field new defense weapon systems is allowing potential adversaries to catch up to the technological advantage the U.S. has maintained since World War 11. Despite hundreds of studies, and a near constant state of "acquisition reform", the problem continues. This research analyzed …
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Using STAMP to understand recent increases in malicious software activity
… an accident modeling framework called STAMP (Systems Theoretic Accident Modeling and Processes.) Traditional accident models typically focus on component failure; in contrast, STAMP includes interactions between components as well as social, economic, and legal factors. My research extends …
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