Manufacturing industries are moving from mass production towards customized production, aiming for highquality products with innovative technologies, low prices, and high reliability. A reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) is an attractive approach to facilitate the movement toward such flexible manufacturing systems. However, reconfiguration and programming of RMS are time-consuming and ...

Remanufacturing is the process to restore the functionality of high-value end-of-life (EOL) products, which is considered a substantial link in reverse logistics systems for value recovery. However, due to the uncertainty of the reverse material fow, the planning of a remanufacturing reverse logistics system is complex. Furthermore, the increasing adoption of disruptive technologies in Industry ...

One of the main challenges in developing efficient and effective winter road maintenance is to design an accurate prediction model for the road surface friction coefficient. A reliable and accurate prediction model of road surface friction coefficient can help decision support systems to significantly increase traffic safety, while saving time and cost. High dynamicity in weather and road surface ...

With globalization and rapid technological-economic development accelerating the market dynamics, consumers' demand is becoming more volatile and diverse. In this situation, capacity adjustment as an operational strategic decision plays a major role to ensure supply chain responsiveness while maintaining costs at a reasonable norm. This study contributes to the literature by developing computationally ...

Major corporations compete over the strengths of their supply chains. Integrating production and distribution operations helps improve supply chain connectedness and responsiveness beyond the standalone optimization norms. This study proposes an original Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) formulation for the Production scheduling-based Routing Problem with Time Window and Setup Times (PRP-TWST). ...

In this thesis, the goal is to compare the UIT model in the energy lab to the simulation program Aspen HYSYS. The model in the lab has consist of a three-phase separator tank with a weir, and two-component of water and cooking oil, It was made by two students at UIT in 2018. In this simulation, there will be three different variables to determine the accuracy of the simulation. The flow in and out, ...

Extended reality is experiencing rapid growth, in both hardware and software and the marked is expanding targeting consumers, businesses and industry. At UiT, Narvik there is established an extended reality laboratory that have a potential to have an impact on the future for education and industry. However, the virtual environment is challenging to operate and navigate with the current equipment. ...

With the ever-emerging market including mass customization and product variety, reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) have been presented as the solution. A manufacturing system that combines the benefits of the two classic manufacturing systems to increase responsiveness and reduce production time and costs. To cope with the lack of physical systems, an RMS system have been built at UiT Narvik. ...

Atmospheric icing on structures has proven to be an area of concern in many cold climate geographical regions like arctic and alpine. Difficulties encountered by the communication, construction and power industries in these areas are the subject of intense investigations for researchers from decades. Three main methods of investigation are generally employed by researchers to study atmospheric ice ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health and humanitarian crisis that has wreaked havoc on economies and industries around the world. This study aims to address the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines at the last mile by evaluating the vaccine supply chain and how it can be effectively utilized to address the last mile distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines through simulation. The first part includes ...