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Comparison of the environmental impact of the crimson process with normal sand casting process

Zeng, Binxu; Salonitis, Konstantinos; Jolly, Mark R. (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

The CRIMSON process is an alternative process to conventional casting that can be used for small to medium batch sizes. The aim of this process are to improve the casting quality and reduce the energy consumption within ...
Digital manufacturing in fiat group automobiles: virtual simulations for preliminary ergonomics optimization of workcells in the design phase of a new car model

Spada, Stefania; Frascà, Fabrizio; Sessa, Fabrizio (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

New standards on work organization in the automotive industry, require a new concept of design methods: the human centred process. In Fiat Group Automobiles (FGA) the “Digital Manufacturing” (DM) project has started with ...
Towards the development of a manufacturing failure mode avoidance framework for aerospace manufacturing

Goodland, J; Campean, I; Victory, J; Caunce, A (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

A process based management strategy is crucial to enable productivity and cost effectiveness enhancement in high value manufacturing. This paper introduces a Manufacturing Failure Mode Avoidance (MFMA) framework based on ...
Barriers to total quality management (tqm)-Implementation in the mauritian food industry

Shameer, Danyen; Sing, Callychurn (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

This study was undertaken to determine some of the barriers to the implementation of total quality management (TQM) in the population of medium to large Mauritian food manufacturing companies (MFMC), which were then compared ...
Statistical process control implementation in the food industry: A systematic review and implications for future research

Lim, Sarina; Antony, Jiju (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

This study is to illustrate a systematic review application in investigating common issues emerging from Statistical Process Control (SPC) implementation in the food industry. A total of 34 journal articles were rigorously ...
Tidal and marine energy in the uk– identifying the future challenges for supply chain development

Thomas, Andrew; Mason-Jones, Rachel; Turner, David; Davies, Paul; O’Doherty, Tim; O’Doherty, Daphne; Mason-Jones, Allan; Murphy, Lyndon (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current technical and operational supply chain issues surrounding the development of tidal and marine energy production in the UK. The paper outlines the market and growth ...
A review of life cycle assessments of renewable energy systems

Ozoemena, Matthew; Hasan, Reaz; Cheung, Wai; Hackney, Philip (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

A review of life cycle assessments (LCAs) of wind energy published in the past few years are presented in this paper. The aim is to identify the differences of the developed methodologies, in particular, the factors such ...
Multiple-sensor integration for efficient reverse engineering of geometry

Li, Feng; Longstaff, Andrew; Fletcher, Simon; Myers, Alan (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

This paper describes a multi-sensor measuring system for reverse engineering applications. A sphere-plate artefact is developed for data unification of the hybrid system. With the coordinate data acquired using the optical ...
Human centred manufacturing: methodology for ergonomic previsional evaluation of manual assembly operations

Di Pardo, Massimo; Monferino, Rossella; Spada, Stefania; Costantino, Marco (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

The challenge of flexibility and productivity for manufacturing operations needs a new concept based on “human-centered manufacturing process”. This concept must consider basically the ergonomics of workplaces and workload ...
Engineering management of gas turbine power plant co2 for microalgae biofuel production

Mathew, Domoyi; Pilidis, Pericles; Di Lorenzo, Giuseppina (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

Fossil fuel accounts for over 80% of the world`s primary energy, particularly in areas of transportation, manufacturing and domestic heating. However, depletion of fossil reserves, frequent threats to the security of fossil ...
Human variability, task complexity and motivation contribution in manufacturing

Sanchez, Angel; Mat, Shafizal; Goh, Yee; Case, Keith (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

This paper is a preliminary study of the human contribution to variability in manufacturing industry and how motivation and learning play a key role in this contribution. The longer term aim is to incorporate this understanding ...
The bees algorithm: Modelling nature to solve complex optimisation problems

Pham, Duc; Le-Thi, Hoai; Castellani, Marco (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

The Bees Algorithm models the foraging behaviour of honey bees in order to solve optimisation problems. The algorithm performs a kind of exploitative neighbourhood search combined with random explorative search. This paper ...
Industry survey review of obsolescence management strategies in performance based contracts

Cabañas, Alfonso; Baguley, Paul; Roy, Rajkumar (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

This research study has been developed through a cross sectorial benchmarking survey and represents the development of a descriptive framework from a management strategy perspective. The survey is based on face to face ...
Building creative confidence in idea management processes to improve idea generation in new product development teams

Perez Garcia, Marta; Bolton, Simon (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

This is a scoping paper that aims to establish effective practices and key players in the domain of Idea Management. The paper defines Idea Management as the generation, evaluation and selection of ideas. The purpose of ...
Factory modelling: data guidance for analysing production, utility and building architecture systems

Davé, Aanand; Ball, Peter D. (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

Work on energy and resource reduction in factories is dependent on the availability of data. Typically, available sources are incomplete or inappropriate for direct use and manipulation is required. Identifying new improvement ...
Lean product development performance measurement tool

Al-Ashaab, Ahmed; Petritsch, Christoph; Gourdin, Mathilde; Urrutia, Usue Aliende; Andino, Alberto; Varro, Brigitta; Rigatti, Carlotta; Golob, Matic; Summers, Mark; El-Nounu, Abdulrahman (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

The need of applying lean thinking to product development is becoming a must for the organisations to success in the current industry. This paper presents a tool that helps to define the actual status of the organisations ...
An improved cell controller for the aerospace manufacturing

Asif, Seemal; Webb, Philip (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

The aerospace manufacturing industry is unique in that production typically focuses on high variety and quality but low volume. Existing flexible manufacturing cells are limited to certain types of machines, robots and ...
Advanced periodic maintenance scheduling methods for aircraft lifecycle management

Fedotova, Alena; Taratoukhine, Victor; Ovsyannikov, Mikhail (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

This paper reviews existing methods and techniques addressing the problem of maintenance support throughout the life cycle for high value manufacturing products such as aircrafts. As part of this doctorate research the ...
Challenges in the industrialization process of low-volume production systems

Siavash, Javadi; Jessica, Bruch; Monica, Bellgran; Peder, Hallemark (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

A critical part of new product development projects is the industrialization process of new products which affects both time and the cost. The industrialization of new products or variants in low-volume production systems ...
Towards an ontology-based platform-independent framework for developing KBE systems in the aerospace industry

Sanya, Isaac; Shehab, Essam (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)

Aerospace engineering is considered to be one of the most complex and advanced branches of engineering. The use of knowledge based engineering (KBE) technologies has played a major role in automating routine design activities ...

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