Filtyp
Banverket owns The Citytunnel Project and it is an infrastructure solution that is going to connect railway from Malmö with railway to Trelleborg, Ystad and Copenhagen. The goal for Banverket is to request that the offer include a complete Life Cycle Cost analyse with the purchasing of technical installations. The purpose of this master thesis is to create a general LCC-model who is going to be th
Den interna logistiken i företag kräver ofta att truckar används. Truckarna ger inget mervärde för produkten men det är viktigt att truckarna fungerar och sköter sitt jobb för att produktionen skall fortgå. Att minimera sina kostnader för truckar ligger i alla företags intresse. Det finns idag olika anskaffningssätt för truckar dessa är att köpa, leasa och ha truckarna på rentalavtal. Att köpa tru
Fokus för mobiltelefonibranschen har tidigare varit röstkommunikation. På senare tid i och med GPRS och kommande 3G så har datakommunikation och olika sorters innehållstjänster fått en ökad betydelse. Den nya teknologin har gjort det möjligt att använda telefonen på ett helt nytt sätt. Detta i kombination med ökad prispress på röstkommunikation och stora investeringar i form av 3G-licenser och nät
This master thesis was conducted at Volvo Car Corporation, VCC, in Gothenburg within the Manufacturing Engineering department. It is based on the P11-project (the new model S40) where the process verification has been examined and analyzed. The purpose of the thesis is to investigate the reasons behind remaining and new problems at late stages in the development process, as well as possibilities f
Bakgrund Strukturen i byggvarubranschen har förändrats kraftigt under de senaste åren. En outvecklad bransch i uppsving har lockat till sig nya internationella aktörer, de ”gamla” svenska kedjorna har mobiliserat sina resurser för att dels kunna utnyttja stigande efterfrågan dels för att bemöta den ökande konkurrensen. Teorierna inom fältet marknadsföring är under ständig utveckling. Framförallt h
Problem definition Even though a great deal of research have been done exploring the ERP field, companies still have a hard time determining and obtaining the full potential scope of benefits that comes with a fully working ERP system. Implementing an ERP system is like changing a heart while the patient still is running. It is therefore hard to measure the benefits and the improved efficiencies,
BRIO säljer både egentillverkade produkter och produkter tillverkade av andra företag. De egentillverkade produkterna märks med varumärket BRIO medan de inköpta produkterna märks med varumärket Playmix. Under senare år har många förändringar skett inom leksaksbranschen. Antalet produkter har ökat, produktlivscyklerna har minskat, konkurrensen från piratkopior har ökat och säkerhetskraven på leksak
Inventories are one of the largest investments made by trading companies and as a result an e®ective inventory control is important to obtain a low opportunity cost of capital for the carried items. Despite this, many small and middle sized companies lack access to a high-quality tool for this purpose. The past few years have also showed that the Internet as a sales channel has become of greater i
Problem The aviation industry is a branch with extremely high quality requirements on spare parts and belonging documents. These documents, which assure that a part complies with authority requirements, are scanned and electronically saved in the stock receipt at Lufthansa Technik Logistik GmbH in Hamburg. The quality level of scanned documents is to investigate and shall provide useful informatio
When calculating how much it costs to provide a user with a computer it is easy to focus on initial costs for hardware and software, costs for education and costs for providing some kind of support service for the users. It is easy to forget about hidden costs, as time when the user tries to solve computer related problems by his own or when the user gets help from a colleague, and even harder to
This master’s thesis deals with commercialisation strategies for entrepreneurial firms. The basis of the work is a framework of investigation that incorporates a company’s internal and external factors, crucial when determining an appropriate strategy. This framework of investigation is applied on the case company Layerlab. Layerlab is an entrepreneurial company in the biotech industry, aiming at
The business world of today is experiencing a phase of change. Customers increasingly demand global relations, static supply chains are replaced by dynamic supply networks, and suppliers are located worldwide. Changes such as these impose new demands on the functionality of enterprise systems. Sync is a company that recognized the changing demands at an early stage. During five years of operations
Work Shop B at ITT Flygt manufactures submersible pumps primarily for the construction industry and are today using an assembly principle, working on benches. Because of the demand on short delivery times and great variations of orders during the year there is a high pressure on the work shop. Because of the aspects above, the work shop wants to investigate whether it is possible to find a model f
In the automotive industry, it is common that the customers provide the suppliers with the necessary packing material needed for delivery of the goods. The reason for this is that it makes the handling and unpacking of incoming goods at the customer easy, but it also makes sure that the quality of the packing material is high, and that the transportation damages of the goods are minimised. It shou
Transformation-based learning (TBL) is a machine learning method for sequential classification, invented by Eric Brill (1993, 1995). It is widely used within natural language processing (but surprisingly little in other areas). TBL is a simple yet flexible paradigm, which achieves competitive or even state-of-the-art performance in several areas and does not overtrain easily. It is especially suc
In later time many companies have faced a major strategically change of focus and companies that have previous acted as traditional product manufacturers now describe themselves as providers of complete solutions. Tetra Pak Processing Systems, operating in the liquid food processing industry, has faced an increased level of competition the past years. The globalization of the industry means that c
Abstract This report is written in cooperation with Arjo Hospital Equipment AB. The purpose of it is to propose and suggest ways to improve the flow of information between Arjo and its suppliers. There are many aspects to this problem and Arjo constantly works with issues concerning this through evaluations and assessments. These circumstances are the actual background for this master thesis. As a
82 of 104
