As companies outsource more manufacturing and design responsibilities to external vendors and therefore become less vertically integrated, the role of supply chain management becomes increasingly complex. Its role is particularly difficult when product generation follows a serial process flow, with the supply chain function residing at the end and where it inherits poorly defined supplier relat...

The objective of this tutorial is to enhance the participants’ skills in designing user interfaces for mobile equipment, including adaptive and context sensitive user interfaces and multimodal interaction. Through a combination of lectures and practical exercises, a collection of patterns addressing issues regarding designing user interfaces on mobile devices is presented. The patterns address ...

Design of blasting parameters plays an important role in the optimization of mining cost as well as cost of subsequent processing of ore. Drilling and handling costs are the major mining cost. This work presents an indirect optimization model for mining cost, through optimization of blasting parameters for a particular set of drilling and loading equipment.

Due to their short lifecycle, personal computers are being sent to the landfill at an accelerated pace. Their disposal has a hazardous impact on the environment thus necessitating the implementation of widespread recycling efforts. Currently, in the US, computer recycling businesses exist on a profit making model and not simply for the betterment of the environment. Therefore, efforts must be m...

This paper presents an optimisation model for the synthesis of heat exchanger networks (HEN) including the detailed design of the equipments formulated as a decomposition method. Shell and tube pressure drops and fouling are considered, as well as mechanical aspects, like shell and tube bundle diameters, internal and external diameter of tubes, number of tubes, number of baffles, number of shel...

This paper addresses two real life engineering design problems . A main design problem is the synthesis task : given a requirements specification and an unsatisfactory design, how should this design be changed in order to fullfil the specification ? When a satisfactory design has been found, it is often the case that only the values that describe this design are stored . Because all information...

Numerical optimization using recurrent finite-element simulations is a promising direction in design of power equipment. Previously, the speed and memory limitations of computers made such an approach unfeasible in comparison with analytical techniques. Recently, exponential improvements in the computer industry induced shifts toward numerical algorithms. The methodology presented here allows a...

Small satellites and sensor payloads aboard larger spacecraft can benefit from ground support equipment (GSE) which reduces the time and cost of developing and flight qualifying space instruments. Userfriendly microcomputers and a comprehensive system design make such GSE possible and, due to the availability of high speed processors with real-time operating systems, even sophisticated instrume...

BACKGROUND Medical equipment is closely related to personal health and safety, and this can be of concern to the equipment user. Furthermore, there is much competition among medical equipment manufacturers. Innovative design is the key to success for those enterprises. OBJECTIVE The design of medical equipment usually covers vastly different domains of knowledge. The application of modern des...