Effects of a fishbone strategy on line balance efficiency, Master thesis presentation

2013-06-11 14:00

Effects of a fishbone strategy on line balance efficiency - A simulation study at Volvo Trucks Tuve

Master of Science Thesis

by HENRIK RANSTRAND and MOHSEN ZIAEENIA
Supervisor: Jonatan Berglund
Examiner: Bertil Gustafsson

Abstract:

This master thesis has been carried out at Volvo Trucks in order to answer the question “how will line balance efficiency change when following a modularization concept with fishbone layout instead of doing lots of different tasks in the main assembly line?” Currently a lot of different tasks are made in the main assembly line which due to the high product variety causes line balance efficiency losses. In order to do this study, a concept of modularization in production with a fishbone layout has been studied. This concept has been modeled with discrete event simulation in order to find the balance efficiency in the final assembly. The current final assembly has also been modeled in order to find out the line balance efficiency in production today. The result of the DES-models of modularization concept shows high task variation in each fishbone. This model considers different scenarios and layouts for managing the fish bones e.g. average balancing, maximum balancing, serial line layout and parallel station layout in each fishbone. Following the modularization concept resulted in no more line balance efficiency losses. However, the improvement in line balance efficiency depends on the considered scenario. The result of each scenario differs from each other which led to the conclusion that the line balance efficiency in this modularization concept is highly dependent to the way each fishbone is organized and managed. The given possibility from the modularization concept to manage each fishbone separately and in different ways is concluded as the most important finding from this study.

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Föreläsare HENRIK RANSTRAND and MOHSEN ZIAEENIA

Arrangör Product and production development

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A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases

A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases (arχiv:1305.0377)

By: Arezoo Aghaei Chadegani, Hadi Salehi, Melor Md Yunus, Hadi Farhadi, Masood Fooladi, Maryam Farhadi, Nader Ale Ebrahim
Posted or updated: 2013-05-02 to cs.DL, cs.CY
Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures
Abstract: Nowadays, the worlds scientific community has been publishing an enormous number of papers in different scientific fields. In such environment, it is essential to know which databases are equally efficient and objective for literature searches. It seems that two most extensive databases are Web of Science and Scopus. Besides searching the literature, these two databases used to rank journals in terms of their productivity and the total citations received to indicate the journals impact, prestige or influence. This article attempts to provide a comprehensive comparison of these databases to answer frequent questions which researchers ask, such as: How Web of Science and Scopus are different? In which aspects these two databases are similar? Or, if the researchers are forced to choose one of them, which one should they prefer? For answering these questions, these two databases will be compared based on their qualitative and quantitative characteristics.
A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases

dblp: Masood Fooladi

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  Maryam Farhadi, Hadi Salehi, Mohamed Amin Embi, Masood Fooladi, Hadi Farhadi, Arezoo Aghaei Chadegani, Nader Ale Ebrahim: Contribution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Country'S H-Index. CoRR abs/1311.3034 (2013)

dblp: Masood Fooladi

EBSCOhost | 87664249 | A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases.

A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases.

• Source: Asian Social Science . May2013, Vol. 9 Issue 5, p18-26. 9p. 3 Black and White Photographs, 1 Diagram.
• Author(s): Aghaei Chadegani, Arezoo; Salehi, Hadi; Md Yunus, Melor; Farhadi, Hadi; Fooladi, Masood; Farhadi, Maryam; Ale Ebrahim, Nader
• Subject Terms: *SCIENTIFIC community   *SCIENCE databases   *H-index (Citation analysis)   *SCIENTIFIC literature   *THOMSON Reuters Corp.

• Abstract: Nowadays, the world's scientific community has been publishing an enormous number of papers in different scientific fields. In such environment, it is essential to know which databases are equally efficient and objective for literature searches. It seems that two most extensive databases are Web of Science and Scopus. Besides searching the literature, these two databases used to rank journals in terms of their productivity and the total citations received to indicate the journals impact, prestige or influence. This article attempts to provide a comprehensive comparison of these databases to answer frequent questions which researchers ask, such as: How Web of Science and Scopus are different? In which aspects these two databases are similar? Or, if the researchers are forced to choose one of them, which one should they prefer? For answering these questions, these two databases will be compared based on their qualitative and quantitative characteristics.
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EBSCOhost | 87664249 | A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases.

A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases

Arezoo Aghaei Chadegani

Islamic Azad University; University Kebangsaan Malaysia

Hadi Salehi

Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch

Melor Md Yunus

National University of Malaysia - Faculty of Education

Hadi Farhadi

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia-Research Center for Islamic Economics and Finance (EKONIS-UKM)

Masood Fooladi

Islamic Azad University, Mobarakeh Branch

Maryam Farhadi

National University of Malaysia

Nader Ale Ebrahim

University of Malaya (UM) - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering; University of Malaya (UM) - Research Support Unit, Centre of Research Services, Institute of Research Management and Monitoring (IPPP)

April 7, 2013

Asian Social Science, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 18-26, April 27, 2013

Abstract:     

Nowadays, the world’s scientific community has been publishing an enormous number of papers in different scientific fields. In such environment, it is essential to know which databases are equally efficient and objective for literature searches. It seems that two most extensive databases are Web of Science and Scopus. Besides searching the literature, these two databases used to rank journals in terms of their productivity and the total citations received to indicate the journals impact, prestige or influence. This article attempts to provide a comprehensive comparison of these databases to answer frequent questions which researchers ask, such as: How Web of Science and Scopus are different? In which aspects these two databases are similar? Or, if the researchers are forced to choose one of them, which one should they prefer? For answering these questions, these two databases will be compared based on their qualitative and quantitative characteristics.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 9
Keywords: web of science, scopus, database, citations, provenance, coverage, searching, citation tracking, impact factor, indexing, h-index, researcher profile, researcher ID
JEL Classification: L1, L11, L7, M11, M12, M1, M54, Q1, O1, O3, Q31, Q32, P24, P42, P29, L17
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Date posted: April 29, 2013 ; Last revised: May 9, 2013

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Aghaei Chadegani, Arezoo and Salehi, Hadi and Yunus, Melor Md and Farhadi, Hadi and Fooladi, Masood and Farhadi, Maryam and Ale Ebrahim, Nader, A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases (April 7, 2013). Asian Social Science, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 18-26, April 27, 2013. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2257540

A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases by Arezoo Aghaei Chadegani, Hadi Salehi, Melor Md Yunus, Hadi Farhadi, Masood Fooladi, Maryam Farhadi, Nader Ale Ebrahim :: SSRN

Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency | Ale Ebrahim | International Education Studies

International Education Studies

Volume 6, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 93-99

Effective strategies for increasing citation frequency

Ebrahim, N.A.^a , Salehi, H.^b, Embi, M.A.^c, Tanha, F.H.^d, Gholizadeh, H.^e, Motahar, S.M.^f, Ordi, A.^g  

^a  Research Support Unit, Centre of Research Services, Institute of Research Management and Monitoring (IPPP), University of Malaya, Malaysia
^b  Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Isfahan, Iran
^c  Faculty of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, 43600, Malaysia
^d  Department of Financial Sciences, University of Economic Sciences, Tehran, 1593656311, Iran
^e  Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
^f  Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, 43600, Malaysia
^g  Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Advance Informatics School (AIS), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Due to the effect of citation impact on The Higher Education (THE) world university ranking system, most of the researchers are looking for some helpful techniques to increase their citation record. This paper by reviewing the relevant articles extracts 33 different ways for increasing the citations possibilities. The results show that the article visibility has tended to receive more download and citations. This is probably the first study to collect over 30 different ways to improve the citation record. Further study is needed to explore and expand these techniques in specific fields of study in order to make the results more precisely. © by the author(s).

Author keywords

Citation frequency; H-index; Improve citation; Open access; Research impact; University ranking

ISSN: 19139020Source Type: Journal Original language: English

DOI: 10.5539/ies.v6n11p93Document Type: Article

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