• Energy efficient scheduling with penalty costs, labor costs and volatile electricity prices 

  Nallamadhi, Nithin Reddy (Wichita State University, 2018-12)

  Manufacturing sector is consuming the high amount of energy at a rapid pace which is leading to energy crisis as well as affecting the environment by the emission of carbon footprints. So, there is a practical interest and ...

• Factors correlating with revisions of ISO 9001 Quality Management Standard 

  Almutairi, Sari (Wichita State University, 2018-12)

  Because of the importance placed on quality, many organizations are implementing the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9000 family of quality management standards. Today, these standards have been adopted ...

• The role of information usage in a retail supply chain: a causal data mining and analytical modeling approach 

  Sener, Abdurrezzak; Barut, Mehmet; Oztekin, Asil; Avcilar, Mutlu Yuksel; Yildirim, Mehmet Bayram (Elsevier, 2019-06)

  This study utilizes both a resource-based view and organizational learning theory to present the need to distinguish information sharing from information usage. Our main research aim was to investigate the mediating role ...

• Automated scanning techniques using UR5 

  Lopez-Hawa, Homar; VanPelt, Alexander; Emmanuel, Suveen; Yihun, Yimesker S. (Hindawi, 2019-02-03)

  This study seeks to advance technologies pertaining to integration of low-cost collaborative robots to perform scanning operations where moderate accuracy is needed. Part inspection is an almost universal aspect of ...

• Dynamic thermal softening behavior of additive materials for hybrid manufacturing 

  Mates, Steven P.; Stoudt, Mark R.; Jacob, Gregor; Moscoso-Kingsley, Wilfredo; Madhavan, Viswanathan (Springer, Cham, 2018)

  Hybrid manufacturing involves both additive and subtractive (machining) processes to achieve the final product. Substantial differences can exist between the mechanical behavior of additively as-built materials compared ...

• The flow stress of AM IN 625 under conditions of high strain and strain rate 

  Ananda-Kumar, Rajesh; Lopez-Hawa, Homar; Moscoso-Kingsley, Wilfredo; Madhavan, Viswanathan (Springer, Cham, 2019)

  Additively manufactured (AM) nickel superalloy (In 625) with known processing history and quasi-static properties has been investigated under extreme strains up to about 100% and strain rate up to about 10 4 /s by machining. ...

• A new mixture cure model under competing risks to score online consumer loans 

  Zhang, Nailong; Yang, Qingyu; Kelleher, Aidan; Si, Wujun (Routledge, 2019-01-18)

  In credit scoring, survival analysis models have been widely applied to answer the question as to whether and when an applicant would default. In this paper, we propose a novel mixture cure proportional hazards model under ...

• Effective cost minimization strategy and an optimization model of a reliable global supply chain system 

  Daehy, Yahya H.; Krishnan, Krishna K.; Alsaadi, Ahmed K.; Alghamdi, Saleh Y. (Growing Science, 2019)

  Attributable to high competition in global manufacturing market and outsourcing suppliers, many supply chain systems have become more complex and faced with high risks and low performance. Many financial losses and failures ...

• An energy-aware multiobjective ant colony algorithm to minimize total completion time and energy cost on a single-machine preemptive scheduling 

  Rubaiee, Saeed; Yildirim, Mehmet Bayram (Elsevier, 2019-01)

  Energy-aware scheduling in manufacturing operations with time-of-use electricity tariffs is a challenging problem. Sustainable manufacturing is gaining significant momentum: companies are not only improving their product ...

• Real-time control of cyber-physical manufacturing process under uncertainty 

  Nannapaneni, Saideep; Mahadevan, Sankaran; Dubey, Abhishek (ASME, 2018-06)

  Modern manufacturing processes are increasing becoming cyber-physical in nature, where a computational system monitors the system performance, provides real-time process control by analyzing sensor data collected regarding ...

• Modeling and analysis of short-term work planning in inpatient care settings 

  Aragon, Lucy G.; Cure Vellojin, Laila N.; Tiong, Ewing; Bush, Rita (Elsevier, 2018-12)

  This paper uses operations research (OR) to investigate inpatient care work planning decisions from the perspective of a single healthcare provider in a hospital unit. While there has been considerable research on the ...

• Relaxing leaf-motion restrictions in dynamic multileaf collimator leaf sequencing 

  Mirzapourrezaei, Seyedali; Salari, Ehsan (John Wiley and Sons, 2018-11)

  Purpose Methods Traditionally, unidirectional leaf-sweeping schemes have been employed to deliver IMRT plans using the dynamic multileaf collimator (DMLC) technique. The goal of this research is to investigate the potential ...

• Material degradation modeling and failure prediction using microstructure images 

  Si, Wujun; Yang, Qingyu; Wu, Xin (Taylor & Francis, 2018-11-05)

  Degradation data, frequently along with low-dimensional covariate information such as scalar-type covariates, are widely used for asset reliability analysis. Recently, many high-dimensional covariates such as functional ...

• Environmental impact reduction as a new dimension for quality measurement of healthcare services: the case of magnetic resonance imaging 

  Esmaeili, Mohammad Amin; McGuire, Charles; Overcash, Michael; Ali, Kamran; Soltani, Seyed A.; Twomey, Janet M. (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018-10)

  PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed accounting of energy and materials consumed during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: The first and second stages of ISO standard ...

• A multi-criteria ranking algorithm (MCRA) for determining breast cancer therapy 

  Hasan, Mostafa; Buyuktahtakin, Esra; Elamin, Elshami (Elsevier, 2019-01)

  Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women. The selection of an effective, patient specific treatment plan for breast cancer has been a challenge for physicians because the decision process involves a ...

• Impact of process parameters on mechanical properties of 3D printed polycaprolactone (PCL) parts 

  Mehraein, Hootan (Wichita State University, 2018-07)

  Rapid prototyping is an innovative and powerful technology used for direct layer-by-layer fabrication of parts from a 3D computer model. Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) is the most common and simplest technique in 3D ...

• Nurse staffing and skill-mix optimization in inpatient settings using a stochastic modeling approach 

  Eimanzadeh, Parisa (Wichita State University, 2018-07)

  This dissertation is embargoed to August 2019.

• Medical applications of rapid prototyping: a review of the current state of technology 

  Sundaram, Lakshmi (Wichita State University, 2018-07)

  Rapid prototyping (RP) also known as additive manufacturing (AM) or three-dimensional (3D) printing is a collection of techniques that aid faster production of prototypes. RP has a wide variety of applications in fields ...

• Supplier assessment process for manufacturing companies with existing suppliers 

  Patel, Ravi J (Wichita State University, 2018-07)

  In the global supply chain, appropriate and sustainable suppliers play a vital role in supply chain development and feasibility. In any big organization with a large number of suppliers, it is necessary to divide suppliers ...

• Analyzing the impact of energy storage system on distribution system 

  Nasr, Atousa (Wichita State University, 2018-05)

  Modern lifestyle has increased the electrical energy demand. with the increase of power demand, the attention on the renewable resource has also increased due to their environmental and economical; benefits. the renewable ...

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