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To react to an outbreak of a contagious disease that requires medication or vaccination, county health departments must set up and operate mass dispensing and vaccination centers, commonly known as points of dispensing ...

In this paper, we describe a new geometric algorithm to determine the largest feasible cutter size for 2-D milling operations to be performed using a single cutter. In particular:1. We give a general definition of the ...

Preventive Maintenance (PM) models have traditionally concentrated on utilizing machine ``technical" state information such as the degree of deterioration. However, in real manufacturing systems, additional system operational ...

Supply chain simulation is a very useful tool in the decision making process either for implementing a new supply chain or for making changes to an existing one. The effort required in building supply chain simulation ...

Design optimization is an important engineering design activity. When used during the development of a new product, the overall profitability of that product depends upon the quality of the solution that the optimization ...

Equipment selection is one of the challenges faced during manufacturing system design. Selecting the proper equipment is important to satisfying budget constraints, achieving required throughput, and reducing manufacturing ...

This report describes a methodology to classify layout geometry as a beam structural element where geometric recognition fails due to shape complexity. FEA-based results are used to detect various structural elements in ...

Machine scheduling has long been a focus of engineering research. To stay competitive,industry recognized early that by streamlining their manufacturing processes, andautomating scheduling, they could reduce costs dramatically. ...

With the advent of polymers micro fabrication methods for micro-fluidic devices, there has developed the need to investigate various forms of sealing such devices for practical applications. This research documents work ...