The purpose of this research was to design a method for the detailed comparison of processes. People already do process measurement and compare these measurements to internal or regulatory standards. The innovation in this thesis is the development of an algorithm for process comparison that accommodates any process, responds to any kind of semantic junction in the process model, deals with uncertain process data, and compares all or part of a process. This is done by the activity-by-activity comparison of data and measurements from an actual process to a model of a process. / IDEF3 diagrams were used for process modeling, a modified PERT network technique was used for process comparison, and the technique incorporated fuzzy data and metric comparison. / Solutions of practical problems showed that the algorithm does not have any limitations for process comparison. While the test data were for time performance only, other metrics can easily be accommodated, such as cost, quality, human resource or energy.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.79252 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Creators | Nayestani, Naynaz |
| Contributors | Thomson, Vince (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Engineering (Department of Mechanical Engineering.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001983943, proquestno: AAIMQ88378, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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