{"title":"Building Energy Conservation Strategies Evaluation and Simulation","authors":"B. Wang, C. Lo, Min-Der Lin","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607290","url":null,"abstract":"From the view of life cycle, the energy consumption and CO2 emission of office buildings are found to mainly occur during the operation and maintenance stages and can be up to 80%. Furthermore, building design factors such as orientation, window glass types, window to wall ratio, building envelope insulation, sunshade device, air conditioner temperature, and illumination control all have significant impacts on the energy consumption of the office buildings. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate the efficacy of energy conservation strategies for office buildings in Taiwan. An existing office building in Taichung is used as a case study and energy conservation strategies are simulated and evaluated by Energy Plus model. It is found that the building investigated in this study can save up to 20% annual energy consumption by implementing suitable energy conservation strategies into the existing system.","PeriodicalId":119238,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122328731","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}
{"title":"Optimal leaning chedule of hotovoltaic Mdule","authors":"Zhonghao Wang, Zhengguo Xu","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607761","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the photovoltaic (PV) system and studies the cleaning schedule of the PV modules. An optimal cleaning schedule is proposed by dynamic optimal algorithm for the PV to maximize the profits. The algorithm jointly considers the dust change, electricity generation, cleaning cost and prediction errors. Numerical results reveal that our optimal schedule can maximize the profits online.","PeriodicalId":119238,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122949476","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}
S. Sadeghsa, A. Siadat, R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, Maliheh Vaez-Alaei
{"title":"Performance Evaluation with a Z-number Data Envelopment Analysis: A Case Study of a Petrochemical Plant","authors":"S. Sadeghsa, A. Siadat, R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, Maliheh Vaez-Alaei","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607355","url":null,"abstract":"Petrochemical plants face several incidents and accidents throughout their cycle time. Integrated resilience engineering (IRE) can be used to control and reduce such incidents and accidents. In a petrochemical plant, it includes flexibility, self-organization, teamwork and fault-tolerant in addition to conventional RE indicators. This study proposes a Z-number data envelopment analysis (ZDEA) method for the performance evaluation of IRE. It deals with a deep uncertainty of the collected data to obtain better results. Data are collected through a standard questionnaire in a real petrochemical plant in Iran. The obtained results are verified and validated against a fuzzy data envelopment analysis (FDEA) method through 50 independent experiments. Perturbation and noise analysis are used to show the superiority and applicability of the proposed method. The results show the most important indicators through the sensitivity analysis are teamwork, management commitment and learning culture.","PeriodicalId":119238,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114417300","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}
{"title":"Analysis on Influence Factors of Enterprises’ Costs for Compliance to Consumer Product Standard","authors":"L. Xia, Ruan Li, Feng Xiaolei, Liu Bisong","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607281","url":null,"abstract":"Standard and standardization can reduce product cost, promote scale effect and improve product quality, while realization of these indexes is one part to improve performance of enterprises. This paper, based on review on studies about enterprises’ compliance to consumer product standards, analyzes cost of 143 enterprises in China applying the consumer product standards by means of questionnaire in order to acquire influence factors for enterprises’ costs by applying consumer product standards.","PeriodicalId":119238,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"239 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114475044","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}
{"title":"Effects of Suggestion System on Continuous Improvement: A Case Study","authors":"S. Moica, C. Harea, L. Marian","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607804","url":null,"abstract":"Striving to achieve company performance, we often choose to describe strategies, modern management instruments, goals and results, shading the huge importance of the human factor in achieving improvement. In each organization, the course of creating value has employees on its base. Nevertheless, how do we encourage people to contribute to overall firm’s success? How do we maintain their interest, motivation and involvement? Is it worth investing in human resource and what exactly do we attain in return? This case study presents a system of getting the best of people by investing minimal resources, describing the steps of the process and highlighting the long-term results and impact. After analyzing the key production indicators of the firm, we conducted a deductive analysis of the main financial indicators, which demonstrates the positive evolution of the company after implementing the motivational system. The results are presented for a period of six years starting with 2011. The effect of a suggestion system will increase and will develop a company, but only if it is linked to a foundation that supports the fundamental values of continuous improvement.","PeriodicalId":119238,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116812709","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}
{"title":"Safety Outcomes in Small-Size and Medium-Size Metal Enterprises in Indonesia: Are They Different?","authors":"Nachnul Ansori, A. Widyanti, I. Z. Sutalaksana","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607746","url":null,"abstract":"Safety outcomes, the performance that often used to show the workplace safety, can be measured not only by a work accident but also based on day-off and injury. This study aims to analyze safety outcomes in SMEs. A total of 67 workers in 18 SMEs: 38 workers from 15 small-scale enterprises (SEs) and 29 workers from 3 medium-scale enterprises (MEs) of metal manufacturing are involved in this study. The data were collected through self-report of safety outcomes as experienced by workers during their last 12 months of work. The results show that the safety outcomes in SEs are worse than in MEs. In addition, workers who have long work experience and family relationships with the owner shows worse safety outcomes in SEs, as compared to safety outcomes in MEs. Furthermore, it is found that in both SEs and MEs, the common cause of low safety outcomes is the contacts between the workers’ body parts and metal materials.","PeriodicalId":119238,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117021366","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}
F. Sui, Jen-Chia Chang, H. Hsiao, Su-Chang Chen, Dyi-Cheng Chen
{"title":"A Study Regarding the Gap Between the Industry and Academia Expectations for College Student's Employability","authors":"F. Sui, Jen-Chia Chang, H. Hsiao, Su-Chang Chen, Dyi-Cheng Chen","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607269","url":null,"abstract":"Cultivating the employability of students is one goal of the pursuit of higher education. In order to improve the performance of university education, the employability of graduates must be enhanced. The purpose of this study is to find the industry and academia's views on employability expected of graduates and the gap between the industry and academia in order to put forward suggestions for improvement, with the focus groups method as the research method. Research results show: The industry attaches greater importance to employability. The “specific skill and knowledge related abilities” dimension includes “computer skills (word processing, professional software application and program writing)”, and “applying rules and regulations”; the “general abilities” dimension includes “working under pressure”; the “behavior/attitude qualities” dimension includes “initiative”, “adaptability”, “loyalty, integrity”, and “tolerance, appreciation of different points of view”.","PeriodicalId":119238,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129589842","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}
{"title":"On Context, Issues, and Pitfalls of Expert Judgement Process in Risk Assesment of Arctic Offshore Installations and Operations","authors":"M. Naseri, A. Barabadi","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607350","url":null,"abstract":"Decisions to be made in the Arctic offshore operations rely extensively on risk assessment outputs, which require a great deal of historical data and information. However, at the current stage of operating in the Arctic offshore – compared to normal-climate regions – such data is scarce due to the limited industrial activities to date. Lack of data on the probability of the occurrence of an unwanted event and, given severe Arctic environmental conditions, the extent of potential severe consequences pose a great deal of challenges and issues for decision-makers. A widely acceptable alternative is the use of expert judgement process. However, this is faced with some issues and pitfalls, which may raise questions regarding the objectivity and level of uncertainty of risk assessment outputs. In this paper, we discuss such issues and pitfalls associated with expert judgement application in risk assessment of Arctic offshore operations.","PeriodicalId":119238,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128782602","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}
{"title":"The Concept of Systems Thinking Education- Moving from the Parts to the Whole","authors":"S. Kordova, M. Frank","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607813","url":null,"abstract":"Systems thinking is as a general description for a wide range of phenomena rather than a specific concept. In the business arena, for example, managers and engineers at all levels need strategic and holistic vision. Systems thinking is useful on all levels of the organization. Recently, we are witnessing a new system thinking research area- research approaches to identify the capabilities of systems thinking professionals, including their cognitive characteristics, and personal abilities. The study defined the aspects that impact the reinforcement of systems thinking among students and graduates of technology management [17]. Quantitative and qualitative methods are implemented: A survey for evaluating the systems thinking competence, The MBTI questionnaire and managers estimate. The study shows that systems thinking is a blending of acquired and innate skills. It can be developed through learning, training, and experience. Systems thinking is a measurable and consistent personality trait which may be used to distinguish between individuals.","PeriodicalId":119238,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128637188","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}
F. Piller, R. Poprawe, H. Schleifenbaum, G. Schuh, S. Barg, C. Dölle, C. Hinke, Merle-Hendrikje Jank, Ruth Jiang, W. Meiners, M. Riesener, J. Schrage, S. Ziegler
{"title":"Introducing a Holistic Profitability Model for Additive Manufacturing: An Analysis of Laser-powder Bed Fusion","authors":"F. Piller, R. Poprawe, H. Schleifenbaum, G. Schuh, S. Barg, C. Dölle, C. Hinke, Merle-Hendrikje Jank, Ruth Jiang, W. Meiners, M. Riesener, J. Schrage, S. Ziegler","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607729","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, a highly volatile environment and the growing demand for customized products challenge manufacturing companies. Radically new technologies, such as Additive Manufacturing (AM) and Laser-Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF), help companies to fulfill these needs. However, due to the novelty of these technologies, research on how to evaluate the inherent changes of Laser-Powder Bed Fusion compared to conventional manufacturing processes remains scarce. Current studies focus on either process or product innovations, not considering their respective interactions. This paper aims at developing an integrative profitability model for a holistic assessment of Laser-Powder Bed Fusion, including implications for the product architecture and customer revenue.","PeriodicalId":119238,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130640634","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}