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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"manufacturing engineering"”.
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Student-centred quality improvement systems in manufacturing engineering higher education
… movement has been particularly noticeable in the engineering disciplines. These changes have involved a move towards a more 'transformational' objective, where the emphasis is on the development of the full range of learning abilities within a student coupled with an external, or 'real world', …
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An Evaluation of Attributes and Competencies for Manufacturing Engineering Technology Graduates
… and competencies required for a graduate from a manufacturing engineering technology baccalaureate program. A document called “Competencies of Manufacturing Engineering Technology Graduates” was compiled in October 2004. This document lists twelve attributes thought to be important for MET …
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USER INTERFACE DESIGN AND EVALUATION IN A MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING CONTEXT: A USABILITY PERSPECTIVE
Studies from manufacturing industry show that the manager who empowers receives commitment and creativity in return from employees and that the effectiveness of the organization increases in this way. However, one key issue when empowering the workforce is how to create an effective flow of …
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Can web indicators be used to estimate the citation impact of conference papers in engineering?
… Computer Science Applications; Computer Software Engineering; Building & Construction Engineering; and Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering. There were moderate correlations between Mendeley readership counts and Scopus citation counts for both journal articles and conference papers in Computer …
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An explanation-based learning approach to incremental planning
… programming, process design and control, and manufacturing engineering.
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Laser Cutting Machine: Justification of initial costs
… decided to invest in new equipment to improve manufacturing processes. A huge investment is proposed for a laser-cutting machine. It is the responsibility of Manufacturing Engineering to direct the management by justifying its benefits, which includes payback time and financial gains. Factors …
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Guidelines for the successful implementation of concurrent engineering practices in the South African electronics industry
This thesis describes the concurrent engineering environment necessary for developing electronics products in the 1990s, and beyond. The broad scope of the research has made it possible to derive guidelines for the successful implementation of concurrent engineering in the South African electronics …
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GPGPU-Enabled Physics Based Deformed Model Simulation
… are widely adopted nowadays in many areas like manufacturing, engineering, graphics, animation, virtual reality and so on. However, the standard finite element based simulation is notorious for its expensive computation. To address this challenge, I present a GPU-based parallel implementation …
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Cycle time reduction through wafer starts control
… be determined.Close collaboration between the manufacturing, engineering, and planning departments allowed for the creation and pilot implementations of the wafer starts control model. The pilot implementations were conducted in three separate phases, providing opportunities for data analyses …
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Centralization of manufacturing processes at a major automotive OEM
Ford is moving from decentralized control of manufacturing processes to centralized control. Prior to this centralization effort, product development occurred as a central function, but individual plants were largely allowed to select vendors, machine tools, suppliers, etc. for production without …
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Approaches and attitudes of managers to collective bargaining in North East Scotland.
… in six non-oil related "traditional" manufacturing industries - food processing, fish processing, textiles, papermaking, manufacturing engineering and fabrication engineering - and four oil-related industries - offshore drilling, offshore catering, oil exploration and production, and …
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Corporate Innovation Subsidiaries: A Framework for Knowledge Transfer
… to the literature on global innovation (manufacturing, engineering, and R&D) networks.
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Refining Hardware of Desktop Fiber Extrusion Devices for Affordable Manufacturing and Novel Fiber Prototyping
… tool designed to facilitate the teaching of manufacturing engineering concepts through remote laboratory experiences. FrED simulates the continuous fiber draw process used in various industries, including fiber optics, synthetic textiles, medical devices, aerospace, and construction. This …
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Culturally responsive engineering education: A case study of a pre-college introductory engineering course at Tibetan Children's Village School of Selakui
… outcomes of a culturally responsive introductory engineering short course that I developed and taught to Tibetan students at Tibetan Children's Village of Selakui (in Uttarakhand, India). Based on my ethnographic research in Tibetan communities in northern India, I examine two research questions: …
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Vibration assisted machining: Modelling, simulation, optimization, control and applications
… meet the requirements of today's precision manufacturing engineering. Particularly, in order to undertake micro-milling of optical glasses or other hard-machining materials, vibration assisted machining techniques have been adopted. However, it is essential and much needed to undertake such …
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Automated tesing of infusion devices
… compared with the procedures used by the Medical Engineering Department at the Preston Acute Hospitals. Recommended test procedures specified in the American National Standard and the Draft British Standard for Infusion Devices are also investigated. The development of a test system based on the …
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A Study of Sustainability in the Oil and Gas Supply Chain
There is a general consensus that human activity has significant impact on global climate change with significant consequences to the environment. Although there has been relatively limited research on the relationship between corporate environmental performance and corporate financial performance, …
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Development of Vacuum Assisted Composites Manufacturing Technology for Wind Turbine Blade Manufacture
… the technique of resin infusion and develops a manufacturing process to allow a small wind turbine blade to be manufactured in a single process complete with its internal structure. An innovative manufacturing method for creating three-dimensional internal structures within composite components …
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New product introduction at a technology company
… contracts have been changing to include stricter manufacturing and cost requirements. With these changes, design engineers can no longer design the most technologically advanced product and then hand it off to manufacturing engineers to figure out how to build it. Design and manufacturing …
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