Browsing by Supervisor "Roy, Rajkumar"

Acquisition and sharing of innovative manufacturing knowledge for preliminary design

Mountney, Sara (Cranfield University, 2009)

This study investigates the identification, acquisition and sharing of innovative manufacturing knowledge for the preliminary design of complex mechanical components. Such components need to satisfy multiple, often conflicting ...

Authoring digital contents for augmented reality in maintenance.

Palmarini, Riccardo (2018-04)

Technicians’ performance is a major driver in maintenance and each process can be prone to time and quality variances as well as errors due to factors such as experience, complexity and environment. Augmented Reality (AR) ...

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 ...

The best practice for virtual conference / discussion in high technology area

Ling, Daniel (2002-09)

This thesis presents analysis of virtual conference. It describes the virtual AS-IS process model, the user groups and the features that are concerned with virtual conferencing. An analysis of asynchronous Vs synchronous ...

Cost impact analysis for requirements management

Oduguwa, Patrick Ademola (Cranfield University, 2006-10)

Competition and the associated challenges in the automotive industry are increasing. Products are becoming more complex to satisfy growing needs of the consumers and products need to be cheaper and produced quicker. The ...

Cost uncertainty management and modelling for industrial product-service systems

Erkoyuncu, John Ahmet (Cranfield University, 2011-01)

Globally manufacturing based industries are typically transforming operations to enhance the delivery of services throughout equipment use. Within the defence industry, Contracting for Availability (CfA) has emerged as ...

A Customer Profiling Methodology for Churn Prediction

Hadden, John (Cranfield University, 2008-04)

As markets have become increasingly saturated, companies have acknowledged that their business strategies need to focus on identifying those customers who are most likely to churn. To address this, a method is required ...

Cutting Tool Design Knowledge Capture & Reuse

Bailey, Jesse Ian (Cranfield University, 2003-02)

Cutting tools play an important part in today's manufacturing industry. There is an ever-increasing pressure on the cutting tool design industry to produce better quality products in response to the needs of the automotive ...

Defining a modular approach for mapping and documenting of Manufacturing Engineering process.

Cowdry, Henry (1999-09)

Traditionally, enterprise and functional process understanding were not considered a priority in the Aerospace industry. The build of an aircraft was carried out sequentially. Now, due to increased competitive and customer ...

Developing a Framework for Improving the Quality of Cost Estimates

Lavdas, Evaggelos (Cranfield University, 2008-03)

Cost estimating is a knowledge intensive task, involving a high degree of subjectivity. Consequently, many of the current cost estimating (CE) processes lack formalisation, often resulting in the branding of cost estimating ...

Development of a framework for obsolescence resolution cost estimation

Romero Rojo, Francisco Javier (Cranfield University, 2011-03)

Currently, manufacturing organisations worldwide are shifting their business models towards Product-Service Systems (PSS), which implies the development of new support agreements such as availability-based contracts. This ...

Development of a grid service for multi-objective design optimisation

Goteng, Gokop (Cranfield University, 2009-04)

The emerging grid technology is receiving great attention from researchers and applications that need computational and data capabilities to enhance performance and efficiency. Multi-Objective Design Optimisation (MODO) ...

Development of a life cycle cost estimating framework for oil refineries

Okafor, Okechukwu Peter (Cranfield University, 2011-09)

This study is concerned with the understanding of some vital features of various life cycle costing methodologies and tools. Integrating these features with the refinery technical processes would assist in the development ...

Development of an affordability assessment framework for defence contracts at the bidding stage

Bankole, O. O. (Cranfield University, 2011-07)

Defence contracting has changed from the traditional provision of spares and repairs to contracting long-term for availability and capability. In these long-term contracts, the customer decides to outsource services (that ...

Development of an impact assessment framework for lean manufacturing within SMEs

Achanga, Pius Coxwell (Cranfield University, 2007-10)

The main aim of the research work presented in this thesis, is the development of a novel framework with the capability of assessing the impact of implementing lean manufacturing within small-to-medium sized manufacturing ...

The development of an intelligent decision support framework in the contact centre environment

Shah, Satya Ramesh (Cranfield University, 2007-12)

In a time of fast growing technology and communication systems, it is very important for the industry and the corporations to develop new contact centre environment technologies for better customer contact requirements. ...

Development of an objective evaluation framework with subjective impact

Taylor, J. P. (1999-09)

Multimedia technologies are finding new and advanced uses within the modern organisation. From a strategic perspective, these organisations realise techhology contributes to enhance productivity and operational ...

Development of an open source web-based infrastructure for designing medical devices

Mortimer, Kenneth (Cranfield University, 2009-09)

The term ‘Open Source’ is commonly associated with software due to its proven success, encompassing a user’s ability to review and modify the underlying source code, to disseminate modified or unmodified versions to others, ...

Development of an open-source virtual design framework for medical device development

Alam, Rahman (Cranfield University, 2009-09)

Economical and socio cultural changes have pressurised the health sector to become more sustainable. The sector is in need of a cultural change to bring more innovation in to new products and service developments. ...

Development of frameworks for steel manufacturing planning capability improvement using discrete event simulation

Borisoglebsky, Dmitry (Cranfield University, 2013-02)

Customers of a steel manufacturing company now order a large number of low volume orders instead of a small number of high volume orders as they would have done just a few decades ago. The change in customer expectations ...

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