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An Integrated Approach for Assessing Suppliers Considering Economic Sustainability Innovation
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-04-19)Innovation plays a key role in improving the sustainability performance of corporations. Limited studies have investigated the economic aspect of sustainable innovation. This article puts forward a decision framework for evaluating economic sustainable innovative suppliers. A new methodology based on fuzzy Full Consistency Method (FFUCOM) and Improved Combinative Distance-based Assessment (ICODAS) ... -
Hospital Capacity Management & Optimization in Covid-19
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-15)A hospital is an institute in the healthcare system that provides us with services like patient treatment focusing on specialized medical staff, including doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers, medical equipment, and procedures. The hospital is the first line of defence against any type of illness or a pandemic; it is the sector that has been the most devastated and is the most vulnerable. ... -
Towards smart layout design for a reconfigurable manufacturing system
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-02)Global competition and increased variety in products have created challenges for manufacturing companies. One solution to handle the variety in production is to use reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS). These are modular systems where machines can be rearranged depending on what is being manufactured. However, implementing a rearrangeable system drastically increases complexity, among which ... -
Production Management and Supply Chain Integration
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022-10-26)Digitalization not only improves individual performance but also helps orchestrate supply chain partners to serve a bigger goal. To fully benefit from supply chain digitalization, a high level of integration across supply chain activities is required. This chapter introduces major interactions between production management decisions and the supply chain strategy, structure, and performance to explore ... -
Integrating sustainability into production scheduling in hybrid flow-shop environments
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-04-24)Global energy consumption is projected to grow by nearly 50% as of 2018, reaching a peak of 910.7 quadrillion BTU in 2050. The industrial sector accounts for the largest share of the energy consumed, making energy awareness on the shop foors imperative for promoting industrial sustainable development. Considering a growing awareness of the importance of sustainability, production planning and ... -
Study of Dry Ice Growth on Duplex Cylinders
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)A study of dry ice growth on bundled (duplex) cylinders has been performed using icing wind tunnel experiments and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) numerical simulations. The aim of this study is to "fill the gaps" in the works of Wagner (2010) and Qing et al. (2018). The numerical simulations cover a range of possible icing conditions by varying the operating wind speed, median volume diameter, ... -
Delving Into the Interdependencies in the Network of Economic Sustainability Innovations
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-23)Legislative pressures and public awareness are urging companies to foster sustainability innovations that improve business operations. Limited studies explored the underpinnings of the economic dimension of sustainability innovations; studying economic innovation criteria in the manufacturing sector of emerging economies can inform other industries while recession fears loom the financial prospects. ... -
Influence of large-scale asperities on the stability of concrete dams
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022)For concrete dams founded on rock, there are only a few options in the common analysis methods to account for large‐scale asperities. However, previous research alludes that they have a significant impact on the behaviour of interfaces under shear. This study investigates the behaviour of concrete dam scale models with varying interface geometries, under a realistic set of eccentric loads. The outcome ... -
Investigation of ice accretion effect on the aerodynamic characteristics of a wind turbine blade tip after a short icing event
(Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2022-01)The paper investigates the flow behavior near the NACA 64-618 airfoil profile of the blade tip section of a wind turbine for electric power production after a short icing event. The flow simulation considering the rotation speed of the wind turbine blade is performed to assess the effect of icing on the aerodynamic characteristics. Degradation of aerodynamic characteristics affects the electrical ... -
Baggage dissociation for sustainable air travel: Design study of ground baggage distribution networks
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-16)Dissociation of passenger travel from baggage delivery has been proposed as one of the radical innovations in future air travel. This concept is still relatively new and largely unexplored, so there are many issues that need to be resolved. For instance, a complete end-to-end baggage dissociation will require the ground distribution networks to deliver passenger luggage to and from the departing ... -
Numerical study of icing impact on the performance of pitch-regulated large wind turbine
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-17)This paper presents a study of the impact of icing on the performance of a pitch-regulated large wind turbine. Numerical simulations of six blade sections of the NREL 5 MW wind turbine at various free stream velocities are performed. Blade Element Momentum (BEM) method along Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) bases multiphase numerical simulations are used for this study. Analysis shows that the ... -
System Integration for Smart Reverse Logistics Management
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-16)To maximize the value and material recovery from waste products, smart reverse logistics aims at managing the complex flows of physical items, cash, data, and information. The effective management of these flows requires optimal decision making at strategic, tactical, and operational levels. To support the decision making, predictive, prescriptive, and descriptive analytics have been proved to be ... -
Evaluation of cyber security in agile manufacturing: Maturity of Technologies and Applications
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-16)Utilizing Industry 4.0 technologies offers SMEs a possibility to increase productivity. Utilizing new technologies requires connectivity between production equipment, which raises Cyber Security (CS) issues that need to be addressed. In this work we analyse 18 demonstrators that are representative for different technologies and applications, and are of interest to the digitization of factories and ... -
Reconfigurable autonomous industrial mobile manipulator system
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-16)The manufacturing industry is moving from mass production towards more personalized products through mass customization. In order to adapt factories should be highly flexible and rapidly able to adjust their operations.The new technologies and concepts in industry 4.0 are important in the transition from mass-to flexible and personalized manufacturing systems. One such specific tool for increased ... -
Reconfigurable Manufacturing: Towards an industrial Big Data approach
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-25)As the world is moving towards more personalized and customized manufacturing, the manufacturing system needs to adapt. One method can be to integrate industry 4.0 concepts in reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS). This allows the manufacturing system to become more self-sustaining and flexible at the same time. There is however, a lack of research on how to integrate industry 4.0 concepts such ... -
A Bibliometric Analysis of the Logistical Challenges and Methods for Vaccine distribution under the Pandemic
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-08)With the emergence and the widespread of the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe, there is an urgent need to effectively control the disease spread through mass vaccination. Several COVID-19 vaccines, e.g., Pfizer/BioNtech and Moderna, etc., have been proven highly effective and have been distributed and administrated in many countries. These vaccines need to be produced in large quantities and ... -
IoT in Arctic Tourism – A Case-study of the Tourist Information Office in Narvik
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Localization, Navigation and Activity Planning for Wheeled Agricultural Robots – A Survey
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-11)High cost, time intensive work, labor shortages and inefficient strategies have raised the need of employing mobile robotics to fully automate agricultural tasks and fulfil the requirements of precision agriculture. In order to perform an agricultural task, the mobile robot goes through a sequence of sub operations and integration of hardware and software systems. Starting with localization, ... -
Simulating wind characteristics through direct optimization procedures: illustration with three Russian sites
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-29)Wind energy assessment of a territory where a wind park is planned to be built is important. This can be performed through an appropriate evaluation of the wind characteristics in this territory. To simulate the wind speeds, a Weibull function is recommended whose parameters are classically determined either applying logarithms or using one of the formulas proposed in the literature. In the present ... -
Cable Propelled Gondola System Operation in Icing Conditions
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-30)The scope of this study comprehends problems associated with modern urban vehicles known as cable propelled gondolas system operations in icing conditions. The aspects under consideration are problems related to the operations, safety, and maintenance of cable car systems in harsh climate conditions. The geographical location of the gondola cars makes them vulnerable to severe weather conditions ...