Drawing on a 19-month ethnographic study, this essay explores how rural young people weave digital-media-generated source materials into their identity work, particularly as they navigate the politics of visibility’s master narrative event: ‘‘coming out.’’ More so than in urban scenes where a critical mass of LGBTQ visibility is taken for granted, these stories resonate with the complex negotia...

A significant amount of rework in construction is caused by client last-minute changes and their inability to acquire a realistic appreciation of the product and from the 2-D drawings at the design development process. This paper introduces a computer system that enables a user to construct a 3D design model efficiently using object models stored in element libraries. The system allows the user...

Quality is one of the important aspects of all projects. The level of success of construction projects greatly depends on the quality performance. The Pakistan construction sector is facing quality related issues, which lead to ineffective and inefficient projects in terms of cost of overrun, delays and excessive rework. This research is carried out to scrutinize the factors, that have triumphe...

Documents are used extensively by professionals in their execution of their own work and to share information with others. Professionals use and manage their documents in ways that are woven into their work activities and leave most of the context unsaid because the documents are understood as belonging to a certain ongoing activity. Contrary to this, organisations have a strong interest in sto...

Aiming at the problems of high equipment composition complexity, long idle time machines, and difficulty in online optimization energy consumption production system that adopts “immediate rework” mechanism, an method for rework systems is proposed. A digital model mechanism established, real-time data integrated to realize based on optimal buffer threshold. Taking module line a battery workshop...

In traditional inventory models such as the economic order quantity (EOQ) and the economic production quantity (EPQ) the sole objective is to minimize the total inventory-related costs, typically holding cost and ordering cost. These models do not consider the presence of defective products in the lot or rework of them. Recently, Jamal, Sarker, and Mondal (Jamal, A. A. M., Sarker, B. R., & Mond...

A common requirement on future safety-critical systems is to support hardware interchangeability. In this paper, work sponsored by British Aerospace Military Aircraft and Aerostructures is reported which addresses this issue. Interchangeability is motivated by the need to perform technology upgrades within a system when components become obsolete – hardware computer components are often superse...

This paper aims to review the current practice in cost engineering, identify the scientific research challengesand suggest future direction of this area research. It has been developed based on both the outputs from the academic forum of cost engineering at Cranfield University in the UK and the state of art on cost engineering research. The promising future research subjects in Cost Engineerin...