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Editorial: Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems-What can Industrial Engineering and Management do?
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OMICS International
, 2012 , Article)
Towards the end of the 20thcentrury, the concept of reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMSs) rocked the world of manufacturing and promised a global revolution in the 21stcentury manufacturing landscape. Since then, a ...
Advancing Service Operations: The Changing Role of Industrial Engineering
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OMICS International
, 2012 , Article)
Service operations are currently at the hub of economic activities in some parts of the world. Although indicators seem to suggest the existence and future dominance of service economies, such economies will only be ...
Energy conversion of heat from abandoned oil wells to mechanical refrigeration - Transient analysis and optimization
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Elsevier
, 2012 , Article)
This study investigates the potential of using the geothermal energy from abandoned oils in a novel three-loop system; geothermal, power and cooling loops to produce cooling effect. The geothermal loop drives the power and ...
Scalar dissipation rate statistics in turbulent flows using Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence measurements
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Elsevier
, 2012 , Article)
A shearless mixing layer with isotropic decaying turbulence has been examined with a turbulent axisymmetric opposed-jet flow and a plume in pipe flow. The study has been carried out experimentally with Planar Laser Induced ...