Browsing by Author "Tiwari, Ashutosh"

Browsing by Author "Tiwari, Ashutosh"

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  • A 3D immersive discrete event simulator for enabling prototyping of factory layouts 
    Oyekan, John; Hutabarat, Windo; Turner, Christopher J.; Tiwari, Ashutosh; Prajapat, Neha; Ince, Nadir; Gan, Xiao-Peng; Waller, Tony (Elsevier, 2015-10-27)
    There is an increasing need to eliminate wasted time and money during factory layout design and subsequent construction. It is presently difficult for engineers to foresee if a certain layout is optimal for work and material ...
  • Adapting petri nets to DES: stochastic modelling of manufacturing systems 
    Simon, E.; Oyekan, John; Hutabarat, Windo; Tiwari, Ashutosh; Turner, Christopher J. (D A A A M International Vienna, 2018)
    Discrete-Event Simulation (DES) is commonly used for the simulation of manufacturing systems. In many practical cases, DES practitioners have to make simplifications or to use the software in an unconventional or convoluted ...
  • Addressing real-time control problems in complex environments using dynamic multi-objective evolutionary approaches 
    Butans, Jevgenijs (Cranfield University, 2011-10)
    The demand for increased automation of industrial processes generates control problems that are dynamic, multi-objective and noisy at the same time. The primary hypothesis underlying this research is that dynamic ...
  • The adoption and use of Through-life Engineering Services within UK Manufacturing Organisations 
    Redding, Louis E.; Tiwari, Ashutosh; Roy, Rajkumar; Phillips, Paul; Shaw, Andrew (Sage, 2014-07-18)
    Manufacturing organisations seek ever more innovative approaches in order to maintain and improve their competitive position within the global market. One such initiative that is gaining significance is ‘through-life ...
  • Adoption of product service systems in health care. 
    Mittermeyer, Stephan Alexander (2017-10)
    Health care systems are constantly challenged to deliver better quality of care at lower cost. Product Services Systems (PSS) aim to output a higher value to a customer, while reducing resource input required to achieve ...
  • Analysis of the “make or buy” decision process in a research and development sme 
    Sarkandi, Mohammad; Baguley, Paul; Tiwari, Ashutosh (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)
    Start-up SMEs face various challenges and difficulties during their existence and due to their nature they often lack knowledge and resources to fully address these challenges. Unlike large companies which have access to ...
  • Applications of simulation in maintenance research 
    Alabdulkarim, Abdullah A.; Ball, Peter D.; Tiwari, Ashutosh (World Academic Press, 2013-02-01)
    The area of asset maintenance is becoming increasingly important as greater asset availability is demanded. This is evident in increasingly automated and more tightly integrated production systems as well as in service ...
  • An Approach for Innovation Outsourcing 
    Rehman, Shahwar (Cranfield University, 2013-01)
    This study concerns facilitating organisational capability for outsourcing innovation, enabling firms to take advantage of its many benefits, (e.g., reduced costs, increased flexibility, access to better expertise and ...
  • Assessing asset monitoring levels for maintenance operations: a simulation approach 
    Alabdulkarim, Abdullah A.; Ball, Peter D.; Tiwari, Ashutosh (Emerald, 2015-10-31)
    Purpose – Asset management has recently gained significance due to emerging business models such as Product Service Systems where the sale of asset use, rather than the sale of the asset itself, is applied. This leaves ...
  • Automated Cost and Customer Based Business Process Reengineering in the Service Sector 
    Stelling, Mark (Cranfield University, 2008-10)
    The design of business processes often ignores detailed consideration of service cost. With competitive market pressure, this has become a key factor for the service sector. Along with cost, customer satisfaction is a ...
  • Automated inspection using database technology within the aerospace industry 
    Tiwari, Ashutosh; Vergidis, Kostas; Lloyd, R.; Cushen, J. (Sage, 2008-02-01)
    Many manufacturing processes have become fully automated resulting in high production volumes. However, this is not the case for inspection. Shortening the inspection times in manufacturing industry using the available ...
  • An automated optimisation framework for the development of re-configurable business processes: a web services approach 
    Vergidis, Kostas; Turner, Christopher J.; Alechnovic, Alex; Tiwari, Ashutosh (Taylor & Francis, 2013-07-23)
    The practice of optimising business processes has, until recently, been undertaken mainly as a manual task. This article provides insights into an automated business process optimisation framework by using web services for ...
  • An autonomous system for maintenance scheduling data-rich complex infrastructure: Fusing the railways' condition, planning and cost 
    Durazo-Cardenas, Isidro; Starr, Andrew; Turner, Christopher J.; Tiwari, Ashutosh; Kirkwood, Leigh; Bevilacqua, Maurizio; Tsourdos, Antonios; Shehab, Essam; Baguley, Paul; Xu, Yuchun (Elsevier, 2018-02-22)
    National railways are typically large and complex systems. Their network infrastructure usually includes extended track sections, bridges, stations and other supporting assets. In recent years, railways have also become a ...
  • Benchmarking best practices in aerospace sector for the qualification and validation of medical devices 
    Chen Chen, Hao (Cranfield University, 2012-09)
    The validation stage in the development of a medical device plays a critical role as it demonstrates that the new product meets all the functional, reliability and quality requirements of both customer and regulatory ...
  • A bottom-up lean implementation study at a Malaysian automotive parts manufacturer 
    Chay, Tick Fei (Cranfield University, 2014-04)
    The aim of this research was to investigate shop floor employees’ involvement (including supervisory staffs) in lean implementation or Kaizen activities at a Malaysian automotive parts manufacturer leading in lean; and ...
  • Business process improvement using multi-objective optimisation 
    Vergidis, K.; Tiwari, Ashutosh; Majeed, Basim (Springer Verlag, 2006)
    Business process redesign and improvement has become an increasingly attractive subject in the wider area of business process intelligence. Although there have been many attempts to establish a business process redesign ...
  • Business process mining for industry: successes and caveats 
    Mehnen, Jorn; Turner, Christopher J.; Tiwari, Ashutosh (2010-06-23)
    Business Process Mining (BPM) is a powerful technique which aims at mapping the complex structure of industrial processes into human interpretable graph structures by analysing business process traces automatically. The ...
  • Business process mining: From theory to practice 
    Turner, Christopher J.; Tiwari, Ashutosh; Olaiya, Richard; Xu, Yuchun (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012-12-31)
    Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to present a comparison of a number of business process mining tools currently available in the UK market. An outline of the practice of business process mining is given, along with ...
  • Business process mining: from theory to practice 
    Turner, Christopher J.; Tiwari, Ashutosh; Olaiya, Richard; Xu, Yuchun (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012-06-01)
    Purpose - This paper presents a comparison of a number of business process mining tools currently available in the UK market. An outline of the practice of business process mining is given along with an analysis of the ...
  • Business process optimisation using an evolutionary multi-objective framework 
    Vergidis, K. (Cranfield University, 2008-11)
    In response to the increasingly volatile and competitive environment, organisations are examining how their core business processes may be redesigned in order to improve business performance and market responsiveness. ...