Search for dissertations about: "line balancing"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 38 swedish dissertations containing the words line balancing.

  2. 1. Patients' experiences in the self-management of diabetes mellitus : walking a fine line

    Author : Kerstin Ternulf Nyhlin; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : diabetes mellitus; self-care; adaptation; coping; concepts of health and disease; grounded theory; interaction;

    Abstract : This study focuses on how diabetic patients manage to handle their disease,what has facilitated and what has impaired that process.The approach was to use a qualitative method as to enable the researcher to fathom the patients' point of view and to highlight their own experiences. READ MORE

  4. 2. Designing work in production: Balancing top-down job design and bottom-up job crafting

    Author : Elin Edén; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; interview study; behavioral operations; work design; operators; front-line managers; production; job crafting; job design; action research;

    Abstract : With increasing global competition and technological progress, production companies face new demands to stay competitive and innovative. To achieve this, it's essential to better involve the production personnel. READ MORE

  5. 3. Inverter Design for SiC-based Electric Drive Systems with Optimal Redundant States Control of Space Vector Modulation

    Author : Georgios Mademlis; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Electric Vehicle; Common Mode Voltage; Power Hardware-in-the-Loop; Tidal power; Voltage balancing; Silicon Carbide SiC ; Medium Voltage Converters; Multilevel; Neutral Point Clamped NPC ; Maximum Power Point Tracking MPPT ; Space Vector Modulation;

    Abstract : The need for inverters with ever increasing power density and efficiency has recently become the driving factor for research in various fields. Increasing the operating voltage of the whole drive system and utilizing newly developed SiC power switches can contribute towards this goal. READ MORE

  6. 4. Optimal Coordination of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, with Automatic Generation of Collision- and Dealock-Free Working Schedule

    Author : Avenir Kobetski; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Visibility Graphs; Scheduling; A*; Mixed Integer Linear Programming; Discrete Event Systems; Velocity Balancing.; Robot Coordination; Supervisory Control Theory; Deterministic Finite Automata; Flexible Manufacturing;

    Abstract : The ever more rapidly changing markets pose high demands on the modern industry, often making it necessary to have varied and frequently updated product portfolios. As a consequence, modern industrial systems need to be easily adaptable to different kinds of products, which makes the use of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) increasingly popular. READ MORE

  7. 5. Effective cooperative scheduling of task-parallel applications on multiprogrammed parallel architectures

    Author : Georgios Varisteas; Mats Brorsson; Avi Mendelson; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; multicore; parallel; scheduler; workload; runtime; task; adaptive; resource management; load balancing; work-stealing; Computer Science; Datalogi;

    Abstract : Emerging architecture designs include tens of processing cores on a single chip die; it is believed that the number of cores will reach the hundreds in not so many years from now. However, most common parallel workloads cannot fully utilize such systems. READ MORE