Nowadays there is an ever increasing demand to obtain more accurate numericalsimulation results while at the same time using fewer computations. One area withsuch a demand is oil reservoir simulations, which builds upon Poisson's equation withvariable coefficients (PEWVC). This thesis focuses on applying and testing a high ordernumerical scheme to solve the PEWVC, namely Summation By Parts - SimultaneousApproximation Term (SBP-SAT). The thesis opens with proving that the method isconvergent at arbitrary high orders given sufficiently smooth coefficients. Theconvergence is furthermore verified in practice by test cases on the Poisson'sequation with smoothly variable permeability coefficients. To balance observed lowerboundary flux convergence, the SBP-SAT method was modified with additionalpenalty terms that were subsequently shown to work as expected. Finally theSBP-SAT method was tested on a semi-realistic model of an oil reservoir withdiscontinuous permeability. The correctness of the resulting pressure distributionvaried and it was shown that flux leakage was the probable cause. Hence theproposed SBP-SAT method performs, as expected, very well in continuous settingsbut typically allows undesirable leakage in discontinuous settings. There are possiblefixes, but these are outside the scope of this thesis.

As a result of global competition, companies within the automotive industry are required to improve their production systems to achieve sustainable and competitive production. To attain operational excellence, companies have adopted concepts like lean and World Class Manufacturing (WCM). In order to deliver, companies need to increase the availability and reliability of production equipment. This demands focus on both operational and strategic maintenance, and efficient equipment acquisition and management. The main objective of this thesis is to identify processes and success factors that are necessary for improved maintenance performance. By conducting a case study and by performing a literature review, the following has been studied: 1) how companies within the automotive industry work with maintenance and maintenance strategies, 2) implementation of maintenance strategies, and 3) new acquisition and spare parts management for maintenance.  The results show that basic maintenance concepts and related terms are well defined in the literature. However, maintenance strategy is not unanimously defined. Results from the case study reveal that Professional Maintenance (PM) within WCM has been considered as a maintenance strategy. Furthermore, driving forces and obstacles for implementing maintenance strategies have been identified. The study also reveals that there is a strong link between maintenance performance, new acquisition and spare parts management. / Den globala konkurrensen inom fordonsindustrin, har medfört krav på företag att effektivisera sina produktionssystem för att åstadkomma en hållbar och konkurrenskraftig produktion. Detta har resulterat i arbete enligt koncept som lean och World Class Manufacturing (WCM).  För att kunna leverera behöver företag öka den tekniska tillgängligheten på utrustning. Detta i sin tur ställer ett ökat krav på både operativt och strategiskt arbete med underhåll, anskaffning och reservdelsstyrning. Målet med examensarbetet är att identifiera processer och faktorer som bidrar till ett förbättrat underhåll. Med hjälp av litteraturstudie och en fallstudie har följande studerats: 1) hur företag inom fordonsindustrin arbetar med underhåll och underhållsstrategier, 2) implementering av underhållsstrategier, och 3) nyanskaffning och reservdelsstyrning för underhåll. Resultat från litteraturstudier visar att det finns en enighet om att underhåll delas in i förebyggande och avhjälpande underhåll. Däremot, visar resultatet att det inte finns en enig definition av underhållsstrategi. Fallstudien visar att Professional Maintenance (PM) inom WCM betraktas som en underhållsstrategi. Som ett resultat har även ett antal drivkrafter och svårigheter som påverkar implementering av underhållsstrategier identifierats. Vidare visar resultatet att det finns ett starkt samband mellan underhåll, nyanskaffning och reservdelsstyrning.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Queensland, 2006. / Compact disc comprises recorded performances of the compositions. Includes bibliographical references.

This research was essential to analyze the process of oralization a written text, pointing out the importance of elements of orality to the construction of meaning between the subject interactive in pieces theater. The analysis was done on these pieces, transcribed the oral environment in the classroom. The appropriateness of activities in written and spoken texts, conversely, can help students understand how to perform each of these modalities text. Was based on studies of conversational discussions Kerbrat-Orecchioni (2006), Sacks, Schegloff, Jefferson (2003), Silva (2004), Marcuschi (2003a). For studies related to the process of oralization and / or (re) formulation appeared Marcuschi (1990, 1992, 1999, 2002, 2001, 2007 and 2008), Favero et alia. (2000), Flores & Silva (2005), Dionísio & Hoffnagel (2005, p.119). The analysis showed that the informants used in pieces theater such as brands of oral correction, repetition, paraphrase, hesitation and modalization, although oral manifestations have been from a previously prepared written text. The relevance of the work is given to show the transition from oral to written text, indicating the specificity of each one in the relations of the classroom. / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar o processo de oralização de um texto escrito, apontando a importância de elementos da oralidade para a construção do sentido entre os sujeitos interativos em peças teatrais. A análise foi feita nessas peças, transcritas da oralidade em ambiente de sala de aula. As atividades de adequação de textos falados em escritos e, de maneira contrária, podem contribuir para que os alunos percebam como se realiza cada uma dessas modalidades textuais. Teve como fundamentos, quanto aos estudos conversacionais, as discussões de Kerbrat-Orecchioni (2006), Sacks, Schegloff, Jefferson (2003) , Silva (2004), Marcuschi (2003a) . No tocante aos estudos ligados ao processo de oralização e/ou (re) formulação, apareceram Marcuschi (1990, 1992, 1999, 2002, 2001, 2007 e 2008), Fávero et ali. (2000), Flôres e Silva (2005), Dionísio & Hoffnagel (2005, p.119). Com isso, as análises investigam como os informantes usaram, nas peças teatrais, marcas da oralidade como a correção, a repetição, a paráfrase, a hesitação e a modalização, mesmo tendo essas manifestações advindas de textos escritos e previamente elaborados, buscando-se como se dá a passagem do texto escrito para o oral, assinalando as especificidades próprias de cada um, nas relações de sala de aula.

Esta dissertação contempla uma proposta de metodologia para implantação de Plano Para Cada Peça e introdução do sistema de abastecimento por kits. Contemplados em dois artigos, onde respectivamente no primeiro foi desenvolvida uma ferramenta para captura de dados, um método de como estruturá-los, como organizá-los em um banco de dados e interpretá-los de acordo com as características do produto e produtivas para definição do método de abastecimento. No segundo artigo, foi proposta uma metodologia de introdução do processo de abastecimento por kits, onde de acordo com as características do produto e do processo produtivo, foram definidos: os layouts das áreas de separação e sequenciamento de peças, a quantidade de entradas de abastecimento, a quantidade de peças necessárias em cada kit, a disposição das peças e layout dos kits, o processo de separação de peças e montagem dos kits, assim como os carros de movimentação e abastecimento na linha. / This dissertation includes a methodology proposal for deploying Plan For Every Part and implement the kit line feeding. Conceived respectively in two articles, on the first one was developed a tool for data capture, a method of how to structure, arrange in a database and interpret it according to product and production characteristics for setting the supply method. The second article presents a method to introduce the process by kits supply, which according to the product characteristics and the production process were defined: the parts picking and sequencing area layouts, the amount of supply inputs, the required quantity of parts in each kit, the layout and parts arrangement of kits, the picking process and kits assembly, as well as the handling and supply cars to the assembly line.

L’hypothèse sur laquelle repose notre travail est que la comparaison de la lexicalisation des noms d’éléments du corps (dorénavant, NEC) et de la phraséologie des NEC entre deux langues va permettre de mettre en évidence des différences de conceptualisation et de culture entre deux sociétés. En fonction de cette hypothèse, notre thèse aborde deux thèmes principaux. Premièrement, nous étudions les NEC coréens (dorénavant, NECC) en nous focalisant sur les noms neutres d’éléments externes du corps humain. Les NECC ont des caractéristiques universelles : richesse lexicale, éléments du vocabulaire basique, source de l’« embodiment », universel physio-conceptuel et nature de quasi-prédicats sémantiques. En même temps, les NECC montrent des particularités sémantiques, syntaxiques et morphologiques liées aux spécificités de la langue coréenne. La comparaison de la lexicalisation des NECC et des NEC français montre que même si les éléments du corps sont des universels physio-conceptuels, il n’y a pas de correspondance lexicale univoque entre les deux langues. Deuxièmement, nous focalisons notre attention sur la phraséologie des NECC et sa modélisation dans le Réseau Lexical du Coréen, une modélisation lexicographique formelle fondée sur une conception relationnelle du lexique. Nous bornons la phraséologie des NECC aux collocations contrôlées par les NECC (par ex. koga oddukhada, litt. nez+SUB être.haut ‘avoir un nez haut et beau’). Dans la phraséologie des NECC, nous prenons aussi en compte la phraséologisation dans un mot-forme (par ex. napjakko, ‘nez aplati’). Nous appelons collocation morphologisée ce type de phrasème morphologique par opposition à la collocation lexicale. À partir de l’examen des collocations non seulement lexicales mais aussi morphologisées contrôlées par NEC, nous pouvons obtenir les composantes sémantiques de la définition de la base, le NEC. Après cela, nous proposons un patron universel de définition des NEC, qui est le fondement du modèle explicatif de la phraséologie des NEC. Ce modèle s’appuie sur l’hypothèse selon laquelle on peut trouver dans les définitions des NEC des composantes récurrentes. Différentes collocations (du type Magn, Ver, Bon, Real1, en termes de fonctions lexicales de la Théorie Sens-Texte) sont alors générées relativement au sémantisme de ces composantes. Finalement, nous comparons la description de la phraséologie des NECC à celle des NEC français, afin d’observer les diverses non-correspondances entre les phrasèmes des deux langues. Ce travail approfondit notre compréhension de la phraséologie aussi bien en général, qu’en tant qu’elle est appliquée au coréen et au français, et met en relief des différences culturelles encodées dans les deux langues. Il peut également trouver des applications en didactique et en traductologie. / The hypothesis on which our work is based is that the comparison of the lexicalization of body element nouns (henceforth, NEC, Fr. nom d’élément du corps) and the phraseology of the NEC between two languages will make it possible to highlight the differences of conceptualization and culture between two societies.According to this hypothesis, our thesis deals with two main themes. Firstly, we study the Korean NEC (henceforth, NECC, Fr. nom d’élément du corps coréen) focusing on the neutral nouns of human external body elements. The NECC have universal characteristics: lexical richness, elements of the basic vocabulary, sources of the embodiment, physio-conceptual universals and their nature of semantic quasi-predicates. At the same time, the NECC show language-specific semantic, syntactic and morphological characteristics. The comparison of the lexicalization of the NECC and the French NEC shows that even if the elements of the body are physio-conceptual universals, there is no univocal lexical correspondence between the two languages.Secondly, we focus our attention on the NECC’s phraseology and its modeling in the Korean Lexical Network, a formal lexicographic model based on a relational conceptualization of the lexicon. We limit the NECC’s phraseology to collocations the NECC control (ex. koga oddukhada, ‘have a high and pretty nose’). Within the NECC’s phraseology, we also take into account the phraseologisation in a word-form (ex. napjakko, ‘flat nose’). We denote this morphological phraseme by the term morphologised collocation, as opposed to the lexical collocation. From the examination of lexical and morphologised collocations which NECC control, we can identify the semantic components of the definition of the NECC. After that, we propose a universal definition pattern of the NEC, which is the foundation of the explanatory model of the NEC’s phraseology. This model is based on the assumption that recurrent components can be found in the definitions of NEC. Different collocations (of the type Magn, Ver, Bon, Real1, in terms of Lexical Functions of the Meaning-Text Theory) are then generated from the semantism of these components. Finally, we compare the description of the phraseology of the NECC with that of the French NEC, in order to observe the various non-correspondences between the phrasemes of the two languages.This work deepens our understanding of phraseology in general and in specific languages (Korean and French), and highlights cultural differences encoded in both languages. It can also find applications in didactics and translation.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-02T21:42:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Evandro.pdf: 2560701 bytes, checksum: a9602a2eaa1935e14ba947f9c8b4a6b5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-03-17 / The present dissertation has the goal to verify the reasons which Metal Leve relinquished share-holder majority to an international competitor and to compare the existent situation in the time of denationalization and the situation in the new controlling company Mahle Metal Leve S.A. in production form and administration, after the reorganization of the productive restructuring. That process of productive internationalization r4sult in modification in the company restructuring of the production and of the administration and occasion a new virtous circle and represent the bases of a new economical growth, with a strategic project of long term, associated to his economical power, managerial capacity and his tradition. The study is based in a group of information about the two moments, focusing the financial results, managerial aspects, leadership, competitive capacity and the evolution to the long of those of the two compared moments. Concluding that not just the phenomenon of the globalization of the international economy turned inevitable the cession of the shareholders capital. But, it also lacked strategic vision to perceive the changes that unavoidably happened his turn. The new controlling Mahler Metal Leve brought a new managerial competence that resulted in increased of productivity and it improved his competitiveness. / A presente dissertação teve como objetivo verificar as razões pelas quais a empresa Metal Leve cedeu o controle acionário a uma empresa concorrente de porte internacional e comparar a situação existente à época da sua desnacionalização e o estágio em que se encontra a nova controladora Mahle Metal Leve S. A. em termos de produção e gestão, após a reorganização produtiva. Esse processo de internacionalização produtiva acarretou modificações na empresa ensejando uma reestruturação da produção e da gestão e um novo círculo vicioso, constituindo as bases de um novo crescimento econômico, com um projeto estratégico de longo prazo, associado ao seu poder econômico, a sua capacidade gerencial e a sua tradição. O estudo está fundamentado em um conjunto de informações sobre os dois momentos, focalizando os resultados financeiros, aspectos gerenciais, liderança, capacidade competitiva e a evolução ao longo desses dois momentos comparados. Concluindo que não apenas o fenômeno da globalização da economia internacional tornou inevitável a cessão do controle acionário. Porém, também faltou visão estratégica para perceber as mudanças que inevitavelmente ocorriam a sua volta e que a nova controladora, a Mahler Metal Leve, trouxe uma competência gerencial que resultou em ganhos de produtividade e melhorou sua competitividade

Braathens Regional Airlines is a result of a merger between multiple smaller, domestic airlines. As a result, the company has a large supply base for logistics services. This has lead to difficulties following up the operation and a complex supply structure. Therefore, in order to improve the overall logistics operations, the aim was to evaluate the current external transportation solution for the distribution of spare parts. The evaluation was accomplished through a comparison with two alternative scenarios: Supply base reduction and Third-party logistics (TPL). Supply base reduction meant removing suppliers from the current supply base, and Third-party logistics entailed outsourcing all external transportation to a single company. The comparison was based on five criteria: Transportation cost, Administrative workload, Delivery precision, Lead time and Flexibility. To be able to carry out a comparison, data regarding all the criteria was collected for all cases. This was done through extractions from enterprise systems from four of the case company's largest carriers, as well as through interviews with employees and a representative from a Third-party logistics service provider. After analyzing the provided data, the main conclusion was that both supply base reduction and TPL would improve the operation, where the case of TPL was expected to be slightly better. In order to further strengthen the analysis, the company has to develop its data collection procedures. In addition to the exact transportation solution, changes within the organization and its routines can improve the operations further.

The thesis deals with the analysis of the structure of the spraying mechanism of the sprinkler, namely the folding handles. The introductory part is theoretical and describes the construction of the main parts of the sprayer. Further, this section deals with materials used in construction and their properties, testing and their weldability. The practical part focuses on the description of the part, ie the design and the type of steel used. In addition, an analysis is performed in Autodesk Invertor. The conclusion of the work consists of recommended modifications of the existing construction and design of a new solution.

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