Hassan Hadipour, Mohammad Khoshnoud, R. Azizmohammadi, A. Mahmoudabadi
{"title":"A fuzzy goal programming approach for facility location problem (case study: Service providers)","authors":"Hassan Hadipour, Mohammad Khoshnoud, R. Azizmohammadi, A. Mahmoudabadi","doi":"10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093767","url":null,"abstract":"Location problems are usually known as multi-dimensional problems in particular when sustainable development planning is required, so multi-criteria approaches are appropriate techniques for solving location problems. Since small percentage of studies carried out in this area, a three-stage multi-objective goal programming model has been presented based on fuzzy definition techniques for formulation facility location problem. In the first step, several criteria have been considered for selecting service providers. Then using linguistic variables which are convertible to triangular fuzzy numbers, the importance weights of criteria and the evaluation of alternatives are determined through a survey conducted based on the viewpoints of decision makers. Finally, the computed compromise indexes are used as objective functions coefficients. In the second step, a multi-objective mixed-integer linear programming model has been developed consists of three main objectives including minimizing transportation and fixed costs, minimizing values from assigning service and opening service facilities and eventually maximizing the utility of selected service providers. The above proposed model has been used in a case study and results have been discussed. Results show that the above process is capable for selecting service providers in a multi-dimensional situation while a fuzzy goal programming technique is used for solving the problem of facility location.","PeriodicalId":410110,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)","volume":"116 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129063212","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":"Designed experiment to find the optimal combination of the factors for the coordinate measuring machine (CMM) to measure cylindricity of engine cylinder bore","authors":"M. Hussain, J. Gu, R. Engel, D. Shortt","doi":"10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093812","url":null,"abstract":"This experimental study investigated the relationship between scan speed, point density, outlier elimination, probe diameter, probing force, filtration, part location in the measuring envelope of a CMM, and part orientation in the CMM. The goal of this investigative study was not only to find the best optimal combination of the factors but also to determine factor levels in CMM that influence cylindricity measurement. The results of the CMM measurements were compared with FAG (a reference form measuring machine) and verified the CMM capability and accuracy of measuring the cylinder bore geometry. A quarter fraction experimental design with 64 runs was conducted to gain knowledge among all factors. A confirmatory run was performed to validate the findings.","PeriodicalId":410110,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133519230","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 architecture of the ARISTON expert system for vocational counselling","authors":"H. Yannakoudakis, E. Yannakoudakis","doi":"10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093719","url":null,"abstract":"This paper outlines the architecture of the ARISTON expert system shell for vocational counselling. The information system prompts the user to answer a series of psychometric questions, for a period of approximately 40 minutes. The system then analyses the answers and creates a report automatically and sends this to the e-mail address of the user, with no human intervention. The report contains analytical conclusions regarding the personality of the individual, the motives behind choosing a career, aptitudes-abilities, and a list of approximately 30 professions / specialisations that match with the personality traits of the user. Herein, we show that expert human knowledge can be codified to support advanced vocational counselling tasks in an integrated manner, quantifying precisely personality traits, aptitudes, abilities, motivation, and preferences.","PeriodicalId":410110,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130411171","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 effect of time pressure, working position, component bin position and gender on human error in manual assembly line","authors":"A. Saptari, Jia Xin Leau, N. Mohamad","doi":"10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093793","url":null,"abstract":"Product defects in an assembly line happen due to various reasons, and one of them is human error. The occurrence of human errors in manual assembly line can be affected by workplace condition and environment, equipment as well as demographics factors. The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of assembly line parameters such as time pressure, working position, jig design, and component bin position; and gender on human errors during the manual assembly. An experiment based on full factorial design was conducted in the lab, where three-pin plug assembly was selected to simulate the assembly task. A total of ten participants were involved. The results showed that among all the parameters studied, time pressure had the most significant effect on human error, followed by working position and gender difference. Meanwhile, the jig design had no effect on human error but gender difference had contributed towards the differences on human error, where females made fewer errors than males.","PeriodicalId":410110,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130457446","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}
E. C. Godilano, Rachel C. Villanueva, Weilong Yao Ang, Adrianne Borres Anonuevo, Bounty Cervantes Insorio, Masakazu Villa Morita, Mark Anthony Cabrera Padios, Herli Ricci Gutierrez Realce, Joven Castasus San Diego
{"title":"Risk assessment towards innovative ergonomic design of a tricycle","authors":"E. C. Godilano, Rachel C. Villanueva, Weilong Yao Ang, Adrianne Borres Anonuevo, Bounty Cervantes Insorio, Masakazu Villa Morita, Mark Anthony Cabrera Padios, Herli Ricci Gutierrez Realce, Joven Castasus San Diego","doi":"10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093704","url":null,"abstract":"The current design and construction of the tricycle in the Philippines is geared more towards aesthetics, which sometimes neglects the passengers comfort and safety. Risk assessments were first conducted to come up with an innovative design of a tricycle that would be safe and comfortable to ride. Rapid Upper Limb Assessment was conducted to assess the postural risk of the passengers using surveys and questionnaires based on the Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire, face-to-face interviews and written questionnaires for passengers, drivers, and for the “latero” to determine the demand of the users, muscular discomfort and satisfaction. Quality Function Deployment was used to determine the initial specifications by evaluating the customer requirements. The point of view of the passengers was determined through survey questionnaires and the analysis of the modifications responsive to these needs was set in order to ensure that the passengers' needs are met. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis served as an efficient method in the risks involved with the use of the product. Lastly, ergonomic principles were applied to appropriately dimension the passengers' cabin and the back ride by applying the concepts of Anthropometry.","PeriodicalId":410110,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130667091","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":"Application of soft computing techniques to forecast monthly electricity demand","authors":"Chia-Liang Lai, Hsiao-Fan Wang","doi":"10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093922","url":null,"abstract":"Electricity demand forecasting is an important tool for private enterprise to develop electricity supply system. The purpose of this study is to develop monthly electricity forecasting model in order to predict future electricity demand for energy management. The influence of the weather factors such as temperature and humidity are diluted in an overall value that represents the total monthly electricity demand. So, the forecasting model uses only historical electricity demand data to obtain future prediction. This study presents an approach to monthly electricity demand time series forecasting model, including two series of the fluctuation and trend series. The fluctuation series describe the trend of the electricity demand series and the fluctuation series describe the periodic fluctuation that imbedded in the trend. Then an integrated genetic algorithm and neural network model are trained for forecasting purposes. In order to verify the model, an empirical study was conducted in a private enterprise. Validation is made by comparing with model that only neural network was used.","PeriodicalId":410110,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128463623","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}
Noura Al Nuaimi, A. AlShamsi, N. Mohamed, J. Al-Jaroodi
{"title":"e-Health cloud implementation issues and efforts","authors":"Noura Al Nuaimi, A. AlShamsi, N. Mohamed, J. Al-Jaroodi","doi":"10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093757","url":null,"abstract":"The healthcare industry is facing several challenges and significant pressure to decrease the costs associated with providing healthcare services, adopt new electronic healthcare systems, and communicate data quickly and securely with other healthcare and government agencies. Recently, the healthcare industry started perceiving cloud computing as a solution for its elasticity, scalability and universal access to the medical data anywhere and anytime needs. This paper illustrates the concept of electronic healthcare (e-Health), highlights the technical and non-technical issues of migrating to cloud computing solutions. Furthermore, the paper illustrates different solutions of cloud-based e-Health implementations to compare these efforts with the current issues.","PeriodicalId":410110,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134189347","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 queuing model for health care pharmacy using software Arena","authors":"Mohammed H. Alhaag, T. Aziz, I. Al-harkan","doi":"10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093849","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on improving and build a discrete event simulation model for modeling outpatient pharmacy workflow queuing system with the intent of exploring options for designing an efficient the queuing system of KKUH outpatient pharmacy Riyadh KSA. Simulation models of existing workflows in the pharmacy for KKUH outpatient pharmacy were created using discrete event simulation software (Arena). The data is collected for each server containing seven servers. Model inputs included prescription arrival times and processing times for each Server, Baseline of model is the predictions of prescription turnaround times, were then compared to those observed in reality. Various scenarios were tested and the results compared to those of the baseline models. The result found from the simulation model shows that a long waiting time exist in the system. The basic purpose of simulation model is to reduce the patients' waiting time and enhanced the quality of services.","PeriodicalId":410110,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134250862","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":"Optimum allocations for reliability and maintainability for series system with buffers under imperfect repair","authors":"K. A. Farouk, Mohammad Younes, M. Nashat Fors","doi":"10.1109/IEOM.2015.7228108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEOM.2015.7228108","url":null,"abstract":"System reliability enhancement and maximization is now a crucial issue in large scale industries like oil refineries and petrochemical processes. Redundancies such as multiple units in parallel or standby units are neither structurally nor economically feasible. Alternatively, series sub-systems with inprocess buffers are commonly used. In these plants, buffers are essential to guarantee the steady output flow in case of having failed equipment or having equipment under maintenance and repair. In these series systems, the capacity of each sub-system should be greater than the targeted capacity of the plant by a specified margin. This is to maximize the system availability within constraints of allocated budgets. In the proposed work the problem of optimal allocations of reliability and maintainability to such series continuous flow systems, for example the series systems in oil & gas upstream and downstream industries, is considered. Optimum capacity margins, capacity of in-process buffers will be considered as decisions variables in addition to other variables describing the performance of the system. The optimal reliability and maintainability is allocated based on multiple objectives to assure that minimizing the total cost will not affect the system integrity.","PeriodicalId":410110,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134506638","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":"Sustainability applications in turkish production firms","authors":"Oznur Ozdemir Akyildirim","doi":"10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093903","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the sustainable production applications in Turkish companies. For that purpose, first we define sustainability and discuss in which processes sustainability can be implemented in production. Afterwards, we classify the sustainable practices that may be observed in production companies and by examining the sustainability reports of Turkish production companies we investigate which sustainability practices are adopted the most by the Turkish companies and which sustainability practices are not adopted at all. We use the sustainability reports submitted to the Global Reporting Initiative, which is a leading organization in sustainability reporting and provides a standard reporting framework for sustainability. We conduct Friedman test to see whether the performance levels differ significantly for different types of practices. The results of our study show the state of Turkish production industry in terms of sustainability and provide important insights on in which areas sustainability should be improved.","PeriodicalId":410110,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)","volume":" 87","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133420272","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}