{"title":"No clutch fuzzy logic-controlled hybrid transmission","authors":"E. L. Esmail, H. Hussain, Rahman Hussain","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058834","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a proposed design of a fuzzy logic-controlled hybrid transmission with only one electric motor/generator (MG) and without any rotating clutches. The proposed hybrid transmission serves to regulate the engine's effective gear velocity by mixing the engine and electric MG powers through a power controlling device. With a control unit, four major modes of operation excluding a regenerative braking capability are shown to be feasible in the proposed hybrid transmission; electric motor mode, engine mode, engine/charge mode, and power modes. Continuously variable transmission (CVT) capability is provided with the engine/charge mode and with the power mode. The power mode can be further subdivided into three hybrid sub-modes that correspond to the direct drive, under-drive, and over-drive of a conventional automatic transmission. The feasibility of the proposed hybrid transmission is demonstrated with a numerical example employing a simple gear train. All the driving conditions of the vehicle are studied and identified. The design is implemented using fuzzy logic and simulated in MATLAB/ Simulink.","PeriodicalId":318405,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115592259","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 moderation effect of the cultural dimension \"individualism/collectivism\" on Toyota Way deployment — A global study on Toyota facilities","authors":"N. Jayamaha, Jürgen P. Wagner, N. Grigg","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058634","url":null,"abstract":"Organizations all over the word attempt to emulate the Toyota Way (TW) - the heart of Toyota's lean management system - to improve their operational performance. There is a tacit assumption made that the system will produce effective results regardless of the prevailing national culture. However, very little is actually known about how the TW fits within diverse cultures. This paper empirically examines how the national cultural dimension \"individualism/collectivism\" moderates two constructs of the TW - People Development and Process Improvement - to achieve Toyota's outcomes (TW deployment). The findings, which are based on data collected from a large sample (n = 2138) of Toyota's logistics, sales and marketing employees across 20 countries, supported the hypothesis that individualistic cultures are more results-oriented in process improvements than collectivistic cultures. However, both individualistic and collectivist cultures were found to deploy the TW equally effectively - a finding that has practical and academic implications (i.e. further research).","PeriodicalId":318405,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114182422","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":"A new hesitant fuzzy analytical hierarchy process method for decision-making problems under uncertainty","authors":"S. Mousavi, H. Gitinavard, A. Siadat","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058713","url":null,"abstract":"Hesitant fuzzy set is a useful and powerful tool for dealing with uncertainty and hesitant situations. This concept helps experts or decision makers so that they specify their evaluations under a set. In this paper, we present the hesitant fuzzy sets for the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method. For convenience, we call the proposed method as HF-AHP. In the process of proposed method, decision makers' evaluations for comparison matrices are expressed by linguistic variables and then DMs' judgments are aggregated the by utilizing the hesitant fuzzy geometric operator. Finally, the performance of the proposed HF-AHP method is illustrated for the selection of the most appropriate bridge construction problem from the recent literature. Computational results and the comparative analysis demonstrate that the presented method can be used for multi-level evaluation process to assist decision makers for better judgment in selecting the best alternative.","PeriodicalId":318405,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124705089","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":"Employee involvement and training in environmentally conscious manufacturing implementation for Indian manufacturing industry","authors":"Perminderjit Singh, K. S. Sangwan","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058852","url":null,"abstract":"Employee involvement and employee training are most important and vital principles for the successful implementation of any newer manufacturing system or modern practice in any organization because the newer systems/practices require changed roles for people at all levels. The general human tendency to resist change understood properly may lead to dysfunctional implementation of newer systems/practices. Environmentally conscious manufacturing (ECM) being a new paradigm in manufacturing requires the changed roles for employees. The management must have measures to convince the shareholders that the plan to implement ECM has taken care of changed roles of people. This paper identifies the employee involvement and employee training measures for the successful implementation of ECM. The identified measures have been validated by a case study of Indian large scale enterprises. The measures identified from the literature have been validated by using SPSS for Windows statistical tool. The reliability and validity of the data has been assessed by the Cronbach alpha and factor analysis respectively. The results provide sure evidence that the identified measures are highly reliable and valid.","PeriodicalId":318405,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123636526","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":"Friction measurements on floors under solid contaminated conditions","authors":"K. Li, Tsung-Yu Pei","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058838","url":null,"abstract":"Slip and fall incidents are common. Lack of Friction on the floor has been identified as one of the leading contributors for slipping and falling incidences. Friction between the shoe and floor may be measured using a slipmeter. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the floor roughness, shoe sole tread and surface conditions of the floor on friction coefficient. The surface conditions included dry, wet, and solid contaminated conditions. For dry surfaces, dry clean floors were tested. For wet surfaces, water was poured on the tested floors to simulate the wet condition. The solid contaminated conditions included floor covered with emery particles of 7 different sizes (from 50 μm to 2000 μm). Friction measurements were conducted in the laboratory. The results showed the solid particles provided more hazardous conditions than water on the floor. Large particles resulted in lower friction than smaller ones.","PeriodicalId":318405,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121742039","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 implementation strategy of key task for ERP activities","authors":"T. Chien, M. Cheng","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058814","url":null,"abstract":"Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can help business executives effectively integrate and apply resources, and thus becomes an essential factor for business operation. But, its implementation process must continue to integrate, build and reconfigure internal and external resources, procedures and capabilities. So many scholars have proposed a variety of solutions attempting to improve the effectiveness of implementation activities, but the results are too conceptual and segmentary, and the process and practice of implementation activities are not clear. For this reason, this study combines qualitative interview method with multiple criteria decision-making method (MCDM) to establish the \"tasks execution order decision table\" and \"implementation strategy diagram\" of ERP implementation activities. Also through a case study, this study confirms that reasonableness and correlation of the results can help enterprise grasp the task and decision-making direction, enhance success rate, and reduce redundant resources waste in ERP implementation activities.","PeriodicalId":318405,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management","volume":"433 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122801554","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":"A conceptual simulation framework for the performance assessment of lot release policies","authors":"Rashmi Singh, M. Mathirajan","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058778","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a conceptual simulation framework (CSF) for the assessment of lot release policies on selected performance metrics, such as cycle time, WIP level and throughput rate. The development of a CSF is derived from the analysis of the semiconductor wafer fabrication, which is perhaps one of the most complex manufacturing processes found today. Due to economic efficiency and increased complexity, simulation emerges as a powerful technique that can capture and analyse such complex systems. The CSF which is developed here is expected to improve the productivity of simulation analyses and furthermore, it reduces the preparing time for input data and errors.","PeriodicalId":318405,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126154863","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":"An optimal electricity consumption decision with a limited carbon emission concept","authors":"Tyrone T. Lin, Hui-Chen Lan","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058592","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to explore the strategy of electricity-using industries' optimal electricity selection by using the binomial option pricing model to analyze the values of various stages in the process. Due to variable electricity using and the worldwide regulation of carbon emissions, this paper tries to investigate the hedge behavior of conservative and adventure energy-using industries' carbon emission strategy and build a maximum financial model for decision-making and the flexible approach of strategy management. How to provide the policymakers of enterprises with a reference of planning the optimal electricity consumption in every decision-making time is the most important. This paper contributes to increase the eco-economic value of enterprises under the restriction of carbon emissions.","PeriodicalId":318405,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129387648","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":"Software hazard rate modeling with multiple change-point occurrences","authors":"S. Inoue, S. Yamada","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058819","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a software hazard rate modeling framework with the effect of multiple change-point occurrences for developing more plausible software reliability growth models reflecting actual environment in the testing-phase of a software development process. Especially, our modeling approach enables us to develop a software hazard rate model with the effect of multiple change-point occurrences by assuming the hazard rate before the first change-point occurrence. And we check that our multiple change-point model has better fitting and predictive performance than the corresponding non and single change-point models by conducting goodness-of-fit comparisons applying using actual data.","PeriodicalId":318405,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129705201","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":"Understanding sustainability in healthcare systems: A systems thinking perspective","authors":"M. Mutingi, C. Mbohwa","doi":"10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058708","url":null,"abstract":"Healthcare systems are often confronted with problems of scarce resources and the ever-increasing demand. As a result, healthcare organizations always seek to ensure sustainable satisfaction of the society's health status, the employee's expectations, as well as the organizational objectives. While patient satisfaction is known to be a crucial factor in the social component of healthcare sustainability, employee satisfaction (job satisfaction), and organizational effectiveness (satisfaction) are important; fulfilment of the patient, the employee, and the management is essential. However, there are complex factors behind the three major players in the healthcare system. A balanced, holistic systems view is therefore necessary to ensure sustainable quality of life and business survivability and growth. By viewing the healthcare system as a system of systems, we propose a systems thinking approach to analyze individual and overall satisfaction, together with the pertinent factors and their relationships within the healthcare system. We suggest a set of satisfaction indices defined in terms of the perceived satisfaction of the three players in a complex healthcare system.","PeriodicalId":318405,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129628927","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}