The aims of this study were to examine the association between maternal working conditions and birth outcomes, and to determine the extent to which these contributed to class inequalities in six birth outcomes. We used an existing job exposure matrix developed from survey data collected in 1977 and 1979 to apply occupational-level information on working conditions to the national Swedish Regist...

Author: Yang, Dao Title: Antimicrobial Packaging Films: Encapsulation of Allyl-Isothiocyanate in βCyclodextrin The accompanying research report is submitted to the University of Wisconsin-Stout, Graduate School in partial completion of the requirements for the Graduate Degree/ Major: MS Manufacturing Engineering Research Advisor: Joongmin Shin, Ph.D. Submission Term/Year: Spring, 2013 Number of...

The current practice of manual inspection of solder joints in electronic manufacturing is very costly and not very effective. It has been anticipated that automated inspection systems would be developed for this application that would yield great productivity gains, coupled with substantial cost savings over manual inspection. However, the few automated systems for this task that have been plac...

Consistent and robust manufacturing is essential for the translation of cell therapies, and the utilisation automation throughout the manufacturing process may allow for improvements in quality control, scalability, reproducibility and economics of the process. The aim of this study was to measure and establish the comparability between alternative process steps for the culture of hiPSCs. Conse...

ponents based on wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technology is increasing rapidly. But many sales opportunities are missed because manufacturers can’t assemble these devices fast enough. This has led to a worldwide shortage in commercially available fiber-optic WDM components. The problem is mainly due to a lack of fully automated production lines in the optoelectronic device manufacturi...

New Interactive, attractive and device independent web application’s Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) are developed by new technologies like Silverlight and Moonlight. Silverlight is Microsoft's cross platform runtime and development technology for running Web based multimedia applications in windows platform. Moonlight is an open-source implementation of the Silverlight development platform for...

This paper presents a planning system for Lean Manufacturing and is applicable to a variety of manual and automated manufacturing operations. By defining a standard set of Lean Manufacturing metrics, our research sets up a framework for performance measurement and benchmarking. A financial Cost of Waste measure is developed from data on current performance levels, and the planning framework dev...

The use of complex computer systems in cost-critical and life-critical applications motivates the need for design validation, as well as manufacturing test. Design validation techniques verify functionality by simulating (or emulating) a system description with a given test input sequence. Although there are many sub-areas of manufacturing test which require significant research, manufacturing ...

Design and manufacturing are two very fundamental engineering processes in mechanical related fields. Traditionally design has been a manual process separated from manufacturing but concept of Concurrent Engineering with Design For Manufacture (DFM) and Design For Assembly (DFA) not only coupled both these but also increased complexity of design and thus brought about the application of compute...

Resources are the core of manufacturing models. They provide information about the people and equipment that perform activities on the shop floor. Comprehensive representations of equipment are common but human resources are often defined to a very limited extent. This paper presents how work study data can be applied as input to detailed modeling of human manufacturing resources. The purpose i...