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Additive or Conventional Manufacturing for Spare Parts: Effect of Failure Rate Uncertainty on the Sourcing Option Decision
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Additive manufacturing (AM) has recently been reported as enabler of digital spare parts supply. Thanks to its promise to produce spare parts with shorter lead times, AM may enable a make-to-order rather than a make-to-stock ... -
Advances in Spare Parts Classification and Forecasting for Inventory Control: A Literature Review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Ensuring availability of spare parts is essential for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to support after-sales maintenance and repair services for their products. Previous studies have pointed out shortcomings of ... -
Applied Nonlinear Compressor Control with Gain Scheduling and State Estimation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Subsea gas compressors are key components for both increased and accelerated hydrocarbon production. Compressors enable the development of fields that are remote, in deep waters, or have low and/or reduced reservoir pressure. ... -
An Appraisal Towards the Technological Improvement of Library Operations Management in Digital Era
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Operations management has turned into a challenging agenda for non-profitable organizations in the current competitive world. To better resolve such issue, technological and digital advancements pave the way to improve the ... -
Decision Variables for Inbound Transportation Redesign in a Chemical Manufacturing Supply Chain
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)With respect to process manufacturing industries, there has been limited research on inbound transportation management in the literature. While some of the methods and strategies developed in the discrete manufacturing ... -
Exploring the challenges with applying tracking and tracing technology in the dairy industry
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The purpose of this research is to identify the various challenges encountered when using tracking and tracing technology in the dairy industry. Based on a systematic literature review, the challenges are reviewed from the ... -
Grocery retail supply chain planning and control: Impact of consumer trends and enabling technologies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Grocery retail supply chains have in the past decades increased their efficiency which has led to cost-focused supply chains that are able to deliver high volumes of products at low prices. There is still continual pressure ... -
Kit preparation with cobot-supported sorting in mixed model assembly
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Kitting is a common approach of materials supply with mixed-model assembly, by which components are supplied to the assembly process in pre-sorted kits. With kitting, the kit preparation is a labour intensive process and ... -
Managing engineering changes in the engineer-to-order environment: challenges and research needs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Engineering changes (ECs) in companies in the engineer-to-order (ETO) production environment are practically unavoidable. It is important for ETO companies to accommodate ECs throughout the project duration, effectively ... -
Material Distribution and Transportation in a Norwegian Hospital: A Case Study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Automated Guided Vehicles have shown significant importance in material transportation and distribution in today’s hospitals. The increasing trends of shorter hospital stays and increase of treatments and surgeries in ... -
Model-Based and Model-Free Optimal Control of a Gas Liquid Cylindrical Cyclone
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Optimal control is important in the oil and gas industry, where small changes of process variables may have significant economical, environmental and safety impacts. Finding the optimal setpoint for a controlled variable ... -
Modeling and nonlinear model predictive control of a subsea pump station
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)In this paper we present a model of a pump station consisting of two pumps in parallel with a recycle line, and a nonlinear Model Predictive Control strategy for said pump station with suction pressure as the controlled ... -
On the suitability of insourced Additive Manufacturing for spare parts management
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Additive Manufacturing (AM) has recently emerged as a promising technique in spare parts manufacturing. Unlike conventional manufacturing (CM) techniques, AM can lead to a reduction in inventory levels, particularly when ... -
Operationalizing lean principles for lead time reduction in engineer-to-order (ETO) operations: A case study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The engineer-to-order (ETO) manufacturing approach is used in companies developing and producing highly customized products. ETO operations include some characteristic business processes such as the sales and tendering ... -
Optimization model for minimizing totes exchange in VLM and SBS/RS integrated system
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A Parametric Model of Umbilical Cable with Siemens NX considering its Reliability
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Umbilical cable is one of the key control equipment, for example, in the subsea oil and gas production system. That can be seen as a customized product related to specific parameters of use cases, e.g. installation site. ... -
Pose Estimation using Dual Quaternions and Moving Horizon Estimation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper presents a moving horizon estimator (MHE) for estimating pose (attitude and position) of a dynamic system where pose measurements are available in the form of unit dual quaternions. A unit dual quaternion is an ... -
RFId technology in the manufacture of customized drainage and piping systems: a case study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)While Radio Frequency Identification (or RFId) technology has gained significant traction in the downstream operations and industries like retail, adoption upstream of the value-chain has been much slower. Few reported ... -
Robot picker solution in order picking systems: an ergo-zoning approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Manual order picking is the most labour-intensive activity in warehouses. As an alternative, robot pickers that can work alongside manual order pickers have emerged. This paper presents such a robot picker and develops a ... -
Robotic Autoscanning of Highly Skewed Ship Propeller Blades
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper presents an approach for a complete scanning of ship propeller blades. Inline quality control for advanced manufacturing or inspection of operational propeller blades requires automated and highly accurate 3D ...