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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"inspection process"”.
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Weld inspection process improvement
This project addressed challenges within the weld inspection process in one factory at Caterpillar through the implementation of phased array ultrasonic testing. The chosen factory fabricates and machines large weldments for track-type tractors. The industry trend towards lighter weight, lower …
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“One Cannot Leave It Undecided”: On the Dynamic Production of Scoring Decisions in the School Inspection Process
This PhD thesis addresses how inspection scores are dynamically produced – especially the ways in which school inspection teams decide upon how to score the schools that they inspect. This research thereby fills a gap between research focussing on inspection policy and research focussing on the …
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Ofsted 2005 : a new relationship with primary headteachers?
… primary school headteacher within the school inspection process, specifically after the implementation of the key changes made by Ofsted to their inspection framework in 2005. These amendments were considerable, and included moving to shorter inspections with less notice given, alongside …
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Utilization of visual metrics to drive intended performance
… the use of visual metrics to communicate how a process has performed as well as to set goals for future performance. The challenge is to first identify what data is available and then create metrics that encourage and reward Lean behaviors. This thesis explores the introduction of visual metrics …
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Implementation of automatic inspection system
Inspection is the formal examination of a product manufactured by any manufacturing process. Inspection process is critical to all the industries as it ensures that a good quality product reach at the end customers. In order to ensure minimum variation in the quality of inspection of a product, …
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Modelling framework for assessing nuclear regulatory effectiveness
… (ONR), the British nuclear regulator, and its process for structured inspections. The first part of the thesis demonstrates that the hazard and operability (HAZOP) technique, used in the nuclear industry to identify hazards associated with an activity, can be adapted to qualitatively assess the …
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Optimization of shake inspections
… the investigation by focusing on improving the inspection process through a prototype computer data collection tool and the formation of a corrective action team.
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Visual localisation of electricity pylons for power line inspection
Inspection of power infrastructure is a regular maintenance event. To date the inspection process has mostly been done manually, but there is growing interest in automating the process. The automation of the inspection process will require an accurate means for the localisation of the power …
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Data-driven Infrastructure Inspection
Bridge inspection and infrastructure inspection are critical steps in the lifecycle of the built environment. Emerging technologies and data are driving factors which are disrupting the traditional processes for conducting these inspections. Because inspections are mainly conducted visually by …
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School Leadership Response to External Evaluation: A Case Study of the National Education Inspectorate in Jamaica
… to the National Education Inspectorate (NEI) inspection process in a selected high school in central Jamaica that had been found to be operating at an unsatisfactory level since March, 2011. The assessment was done by collecting data from multiple sources, specifically structured and …
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An evaluation of factors that influence service contract quality.
… pressures more emphasis has been placed on the inspection process and subsequently on the contract administration sections as they are tasked to develop and apply efficient procedure for quality assurance. The research indicated that there are four factors that influence service quality. These …
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Incremental learning algorithm for anomaly detection applied to computed tomography scans in nuclear industry
During routine nuclear power plant (NPP) inspection, each maintenance tool is inspected manually before and after use on a nuclear reactor. This could result in long inspection duration (up to months), time, and resource wastage. To address this, an automated tool inspection process using a …
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Statistically and economically based attribute acceptance sampling models with inspection errors
… assumed that no errors are introduced into the inspection process. While such as assumption eases the computational procedures involved in the evaluation of sampling schemes, it ignores considerable evidence that most inspection operations are error prone. This research investigates the …
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Senior Managers' Perceptions of the Role of Inspection in College Improvement: a Further Education Case Study
The research focuses on the impact of inspection on improvements made in a single further education college over a two-year period. This college was deemed `inadequate' in early 2002 and was therefore subject to termly OfSTED monitoring visits. The college had a full reinspection in March of 2004, …
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FlexSIG-Flexible software inspection groupware
… group more flexibility in performing software inspection. Software inspection, which is part of non-execution based testing in software development, is a group activity. The groupware system aims to provide a system that will improve acceptability of groupware and improve software quality by …
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Development of a robot localization and environment mapping system
… in a robotic liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank inspection system. Inspecting large LPG tanks for defects is difficult, expensive and energy intensive. Replacing the human inspectors with a robotic inspection system will make the inspection process faster, less expensive, more reliable and safer. …
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Autonomous Drone Assisted Aircraft Inspections
… any aircraft manufacturer or operator. Visual inspections of the exterior of aircraft are critical to their safe operation, as defects such as corrosion, dents, lightning strikes, or missing parts can compromise the structural integrity of the whole aircraft. Currently, aircraft visual …
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Multi-task semantic segmentation of damage and materials for visual inspection of civil infrastructure
Manual visual inspection is the most common means of assessing the condition of civil infrastructure in the United States but can be exceedingly laborious, time consuming, and dangerous. Research has focused on automating parts of the inspection process using unmanned aerial vehicles for image …
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Quality control improvement in global apparel sourcing
… challenges within the quality management process of one of the operating groups of Li & Fung. The primary goals were improved product quality and reduced quality control costs. The operating group works with thousands of factories across the world, producing a large variety of apparel and …
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Understanding the impact of school inspection: An analysis of how school leaders in Wales interpret and respond to inspection outcomes
… leaders’ interpretation of and response to inspection outcomes in order to better inform policy developments. In the United Kingdom (UK), research related to school inspection has tended to focus on England’s inspectorate, Ofsted, and its influence on teachers and leaders there. This study …
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