Pub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2016.7798123
G. Micheli, E. Cagno, Gianlorenzo Padovani
This research, anchoring on supply chain configuration data of Italian best performer valve suppliers, achieved from previous published studies, aims to provide a new competitive boost to Italian engineered valve suppliers within the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) supply chain of the Oil & Gas sector. This research, through the matching of the most effective and significant supply chain configuration practices enabled by best performer valve suppliers with EPC clients' wishes towards the improvement of the valve value chain, provides actionable guidelines to increase the supply chain competitiveness of suppliers of the valve industry. This paper offers a practical support to valve suppliers that need to effectively and rapidly reconfigure their supply chain and gain a new competitive edge. Moreover, the proposed research methodology can be a theoretical base to improve the supplier base of other EPC supply chains.
{"title":"Matching successful supply chain configuration practices of best performer suppliers with clients' wishes: Guidelines for the Italian engineered valve suppliers of the Oil & Gas sector","authors":"G. Micheli, E. Cagno, Gianlorenzo Padovani","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2016.7798123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2016.7798123","url":null,"abstract":"This research, anchoring on supply chain configuration data of Italian best performer valve suppliers, achieved from previous published studies, aims to provide a new competitive boost to Italian engineered valve suppliers within the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) supply chain of the Oil & Gas sector. This research, through the matching of the most effective and significant supply chain configuration practices enabled by best performer valve suppliers with EPC clients' wishes towards the improvement of the valve value chain, provides actionable guidelines to increase the supply chain competitiveness of suppliers of the valve industry. This paper offers a practical support to valve suppliers that need to effectively and rapidly reconfigure their supply chain and gain a new competitive edge. Moreover, the proposed research methodology can be a theoretical base to improve the supplier base of other EPC supply chains.","PeriodicalId":114906,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114791296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2016.7798011
Shanhu Yu, Yi-Feng Hung
Based on several existing literatures that use mixed integer programming (MIP) to solve parallel machine scheduling problems, this study tests and compares three MIP models. Each order has its own ready date, due date and processing time. The completion time of the order cannot over the its due date. If not, penalties for tardiness will occur. Formulation 1 used in immediate-precedence variables [1]. Formulation 2 is an improved version of immediate-precedence variables original proposed by [2]. Formulation 3 used linear ordering variables[1]. The results reveal that Formulation 2 has better computational performance than other does.
{"title":"Comparisons of three mixed integer programming models for parallel machine scheduling","authors":"Shanhu Yu, Yi-Feng Hung","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2016.7798011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2016.7798011","url":null,"abstract":"Based on several existing literatures that use mixed integer programming (MIP) to solve parallel machine scheduling problems, this study tests and compares three MIP models. Each order has its own ready date, due date and processing time. The completion time of the order cannot over the its due date. If not, penalties for tardiness will occur. Formulation 1 used in immediate-precedence variables [1]. Formulation 2 is an improved version of immediate-precedence variables original proposed by [2]. Formulation 3 used linear ordering variables[1]. The results reveal that Formulation 2 has better computational performance than other does.","PeriodicalId":114906,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124129923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2016.7798147
Steffen Schieweck, Gabriele Kern-Isberner, M. T. Hompel
Cellular transport systems are a field of research which has received some attention over the last few years. As a recently established topic, a large share of the current research is directed at fundamental topics dealing with the system's design and construction. Answer set programming, on the other hand, has been established in the early 90s and received steadily rising attention from thereon. In the presented paper, we aim to unite the topics of cellular transport systems and answer set programming to build a valuable fusion. By using answer set programming, the vehicles are given the autonomy to decide which driving task to fulfill next and to which picking station a corresponding customer order is assigned. The approach is evaluated using a simulation and proves to be superior to a conventional first-come-first-served approach.
{"title":"Using answer set programming in an order-picking system with cellular transport vehicles","authors":"Steffen Schieweck, Gabriele Kern-Isberner, M. T. Hompel","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2016.7798147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2016.7798147","url":null,"abstract":"Cellular transport systems are a field of research which has received some attention over the last few years. As a recently established topic, a large share of the current research is directed at fundamental topics dealing with the system's design and construction. Answer set programming, on the other hand, has been established in the early 90s and received steadily rising attention from thereon. In the presented paper, we aim to unite the topics of cellular transport systems and answer set programming to build a valuable fusion. By using answer set programming, the vehicles are given the autonomy to decide which driving task to fulfill next and to which picking station a corresponding customer order is assigned. The approach is evaluated using a simulation and proves to be superior to a conventional first-come-first-served approach.","PeriodicalId":114906,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126549083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2016.7797946
H. Bhatti, A. Abareshi, S. Pittayachawan
This study identifies and explores key determinants of the customer repurchase behaviour of mobile telecommunication service users in Australia. Customer repurchase behaviour is the most representative form of the consumer-to-business relationship. Telecommunication Industry Ombudsman (TIO) reports, show that there are service quality issues in Australia which can affect end customers and businesses. Moreover, factors such as behavioural intention which lead to customer intention to repurchase the service are measured through the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2), Marketing Mix Theory and Expectation Confirmation Theory. The research findings will highlight several implications for both research and practice in mobile service buying behaviour. In the quantitative phase, the structured online survey was conducted for data analysis. The research framework provides an extension to the UTAUT 2 model and also provides a framework for customer repurchase behaviour in mobile service business.
{"title":"An evaluation of customer repurchase behaviour in mobile telecommunication services in Australia","authors":"H. Bhatti, A. Abareshi, S. Pittayachawan","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2016.7797946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2016.7797946","url":null,"abstract":"This study identifies and explores key determinants of the customer repurchase behaviour of mobile telecommunication service users in Australia. Customer repurchase behaviour is the most representative form of the consumer-to-business relationship. Telecommunication Industry Ombudsman (TIO) reports, show that there are service quality issues in Australia which can affect end customers and businesses. Moreover, factors such as behavioural intention which lead to customer intention to repurchase the service are measured through the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2), Marketing Mix Theory and Expectation Confirmation Theory. The research findings will highlight several implications for both research and practice in mobile service buying behaviour. In the quantitative phase, the structured online survey was conducted for data analysis. The research framework provides an extension to the UTAUT 2 model and also provides a framework for customer repurchase behaviour in mobile service business.","PeriodicalId":114906,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"194 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115808141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2016.7797923
D. Valis, L. Zák, Z. Vintr, K. Hasilová
Different state indicators are used when assessing technical systems. If we are to use indirect diagnostic measures, lubrication oil seems to be a good source of different information. It is possible to get the information on the state of the oil and the system. In our article we focus on specific oil particles, i.e. soot. It is formed as a by-product during fuel combustion. Soot contaminates the oil and its concentration might indicate that operation conditions are getting worse. The essential and interesting thing is that some additives in the oil are able to dissolve the soot. In our article we introduce some results obtained from processing oil soot data. The data introduced depend on a few operating measures - kilometres [km], days [day] and moto-hours [Mh]. In the analysis we use deterministic and fuzzy mathematical methods. Our aim is to estimate and study the hitting time of a critical threshold.
{"title":"Mathematical analysis of soot particles in oil used as system state indicator","authors":"D. Valis, L. Zák, Z. Vintr, K. Hasilová","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2016.7797923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2016.7797923","url":null,"abstract":"Different state indicators are used when assessing technical systems. If we are to use indirect diagnostic measures, lubrication oil seems to be a good source of different information. It is possible to get the information on the state of the oil and the system. In our article we focus on specific oil particles, i.e. soot. It is formed as a by-product during fuel combustion. Soot contaminates the oil and its concentration might indicate that operation conditions are getting worse. The essential and interesting thing is that some additives in the oil are able to dissolve the soot. In our article we introduce some results obtained from processing oil soot data. The data introduced depend on a few operating measures - kilometres [km], days [day] and moto-hours [Mh]. In the analysis we use deterministic and fuzzy mathematical methods. Our aim is to estimate and study the hitting time of a critical threshold.","PeriodicalId":114906,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130066037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2016.7797942
G. Schuh, J. Kuntz, K. Heeg, P. Jussen, J. Koch, S. Breunig
Nowadays, providing purchasable goods is not enough for a company to survive on the global market. Because of competitive prices and a large range of products available, companies need to offer additional benefits to their customers in order to create a unique selling point. They add services to their product portfolio and offer clients the opportunity to acquire an additional service solution to go with it. The offered services need to fit to the customer's needs, resulting in a variety of available services, great complexity of the service range and decreasing transparency of the resource utilization. This paper addresses the problem by identifying variant-creating factors in product service systems, transferring them into an organizational framework and verifying their significance.
{"title":"Identification of variant-creating factors in product service systems","authors":"G. Schuh, J. Kuntz, K. Heeg, P. Jussen, J. Koch, S. Breunig","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2016.7797942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2016.7797942","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, providing purchasable goods is not enough for a company to survive on the global market. Because of competitive prices and a large range of products available, companies need to offer additional benefits to their customers in order to create a unique selling point. They add services to their product portfolio and offer clients the opportunity to acquire an additional service solution to go with it. The offered services need to fit to the customer's needs, resulting in a variety of available services, great complexity of the service range and decreasing transparency of the resource utilization. This paper addresses the problem by identifying variant-creating factors in product service systems, transferring them into an organizational framework and verifying their significance.","PeriodicalId":114906,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129378866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2016.7798176
Chunyu Wang, Yan-mei Li, Xiaoshu Li, Weibo Hao
This study proves that as the height of a person increases, his/her sense of power also increases. Moreover, in a population with heavy weight and high socioeconomic status, the height of a person significantly affects his/her sense of power. Findings have confirmed the concept emphasized by embodied cognition theory, i.e., genitive dependence on one's body, which indicates that the psychological characteristics of an individual should be organically combined with his/her biological characteristics in future studies.
{"title":"Effect of height on sense of power","authors":"Chunyu Wang, Yan-mei Li, Xiaoshu Li, Weibo Hao","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2016.7798176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2016.7798176","url":null,"abstract":"This study proves that as the height of a person increases, his/her sense of power also increases. Moreover, in a population with heavy weight and high socioeconomic status, the height of a person significantly affects his/her sense of power. Findings have confirmed the concept emphasized by embodied cognition theory, i.e., genitive dependence on one's body, which indicates that the psychological characteristics of an individual should be organically combined with his/her biological characteristics in future studies.","PeriodicalId":114906,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130889389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2016.7797842
Ken Matsushita, Yannan Hu, H. Hashimoto, S. Imahori, M. Yagiura
The rectilinear block packing problem is a problem of packing a set of rectilinear blocks into a larger rectangular container, where a rectilinear block is a polygonal block whose interior angles are either 90° or 270°. This problem has many applications, such as VLSI design and timber cutting. In this paper, we propose a new solution representation, based on an order of items, to decide a layout of rectilinear blocks whose x-coordinates are fixed. When the shapes of given items have certain characteristics, our representation guarantees optimality. We also generalize this result to the case of general shapes. We then propose an exact algorithm that iteratively generates x-coordinates of items and finds the corresponding optimal layout. The computational results show that our algorithm obtains five exact and one heuristic solutions for six instances and it improves the running time of an existing algorithm.
{"title":"A new solution representation for the rectilinear block packing problem","authors":"Ken Matsushita, Yannan Hu, H. Hashimoto, S. Imahori, M. Yagiura","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2016.7797842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2016.7797842","url":null,"abstract":"The rectilinear block packing problem is a problem of packing a set of rectilinear blocks into a larger rectangular container, where a rectilinear block is a polygonal block whose interior angles are either 90° or 270°. This problem has many applications, such as VLSI design and timber cutting. In this paper, we propose a new solution representation, based on an order of items, to decide a layout of rectilinear blocks whose x-coordinates are fixed. When the shapes of given items have certain characteristics, our representation guarantees optimality. We also generalize this result to the case of general shapes. We then propose an exact algorithm that iteratively generates x-coordinates of items and finds the corresponding optimal layout. The computational results show that our algorithm obtains five exact and one heuristic solutions for six instances and it improves the running time of an existing algorithm.","PeriodicalId":114906,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131258230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2016.7798077
J. Pollack
Organizational project management focuses on the delivery of business objectives, using a multi-layered integration of portfolio, program, and project management. This is contrasted with change management, an approach to delivering changes in organizations based in a significantly different intellectual heritage. It is argued that although the differences between the philosophies underlying these disciplines can cause tension, an integrated approach involving project management and change management will be more effective in delivering organizational objectives than using either in isolation.
{"title":"The need for integration between organizational project management and change management","authors":"J. Pollack","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2016.7798077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2016.7798077","url":null,"abstract":"Organizational project management focuses on the delivery of business objectives, using a multi-layered integration of portfolio, program, and project management. This is contrasted with change management, an approach to delivering changes in organizations based in a significantly different intellectual heritage. It is argued that although the differences between the philosophies underlying these disciplines can cause tension, an integrated approach involving project management and change management will be more effective in delivering organizational objectives than using either in isolation.","PeriodicalId":114906,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132919483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2016.7797857
Rui M. Sousa, D. Stadnicka, J. Dinis-Carvalho, R. Ratnayake, V. Isoherranen
It is generally recognized that traditional teaching methodologies, e.g. expositive lectures, are prone to become inefficient, especially in terms of knowledge retention, because many students quickly lose attention. Therefore, it is vital the adoption of new teaching methodologies that enable the students' engagement in their own learning process. Based on a case study, this manuscript aims to demonstrate how games/hands-on approaches can improve the teaching/learning processes in Industrial Engineering education, more specifically in the Lean Manufacturing context. The investigation is focused on: (i) type of achievable learning objectives (according to Bloom's taxonomy) and (ii) alignment with the students' learning styles (according to Felder-Silverman's model).Data about (ii) is gathered by a questionnaire applied to students after the lean manufacturing game. The discussion of (i) is based on the questionnaire and on the analysis of the type of game applied.
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