Complex Engineering Product (CEP) modification businesses cover a wide range of project types. The diversity of the projects and the interaction of different stakeholders introduce difficulties in cost estimating. Also, ...

The aim of this thesis is to investigate concepts and possibilities for cryogenic cooling systems within future superconducting all-electric thrust aircraft (AETA) electrical networks. The research comprises of a combination ...

The motivation to conduct this research has come from awareness that the Internet exposes the e-learning environment to information security threats and vulnerabilities. Information security management as practised as a ...

This paper presents the different types of failure that may occur in flight control electrical actuation systems. Within an aircraft, actuation systems are essential to deliver physical actions. Large actuators operate the ...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (SA) set out its Vision 2030 of itself as a significant Knowledge Economy to position itself competitively in the world and in the Gulf region. The Government charged the education sector to ...

This thesis reports on the development of a performance improvement framework that formally represents causal relationships between performance measures, factors of performance, improvement actions and the overall strategy ...

With the changing and increasingly more demanding global markets, also Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP) gets challenged. Industry is expecting more adaptive, dynamic, intelligent CAPP systems to deal with the uncertainty ...

The objective of this thesis is to develop generic assembly relations to support variant management to aid the product development for products as families. The advent of the buyers' market has encouraged manufacturers ...

ELearning systems are increasingly used by educational institutions to support their academic activities. A simple use of an eLearning system is to make materials and notes available to students at anytime and anywhere; ...

This research proposes a generic decision making system structure for real time despatch control in small Flexible Manufacturing Systems. This is to satisfy the requirement for low cost control systems that can be flexibly ...