Browsing by Author "Kang, Parminder Singh"
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Applying lean principles to health economics transactional flow process to improve the healthcare delivery
Alrashed, I.A.; Kang, Parminder Singh (Conference)Abstract: Defects reduction and end-to-end process improvement are key to successful delivery of key services such as healthcare. This research paper investigates the implication of Lean management for healthcare service ... -
Classification and Clustering Approaches to Understanding Customer Ordering by Customers of a Fresh Food Supplier
Clement, Ross; Kang, Parminder Singh; Duffy, A. P.; Hopewell, Ashley (Conference)Purpose: This paper looks at characterization of B2B customers of a fresh food wholesale company supplying SME clients in terms of their weekly orders of a variety of fresh products. Customers whose orders can be predicted ... -
Continuous Process Improvement Implementation Framework Using Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms and Discrete Event Simulation
Kang, Parminder Singh; Bhatti, R. S. (Article)Purpose Continuous process improvement is a hard problem, especially in high variety/low volume environments due to the complex interrelationships between processes. The purpose of this paper is to address the process ... -
Discrete Event Simulation to Reduce the Effect of Uncertainties on Project Planning
Kang, Parminder Singh; Aboutaleb, Adam; Duffy, A. P.; Embley, Tim; Glenn, Jame; Adams, Colin (Conference)Planning is a vital decision making activity that influences the future of an organization by determining what tasks are to be performed, who required resources are and in what sequence. Organizations often follow a rigorous ... -
Investigating the Demand for Short-shelf Life Food Products for SME Wholesalers
Raju, Y.; Kang, Parminder Singh; Moroz, Adam; Clement, Ross; Hopwell, Ashley; Duffy, A. P. (Article)Accurate forecasting of fresh produce demand is one the challenges faced by Small Medium Enterprise (SME) wholesalers. This paper is an attempt to understand the cause for the high level of variability such as weather, ... -
Knowledge Engineering Based Forecasting to Improve Daily Demand Prediction for Refrigerated and Short Shelf-Life Food Supply Chains
Kang, Parminder Singh; Clement, Ross; Hopewell, Ashley; Duffy, A. P.; Garicia-Taylor, Marilu (Conference)The accuracy of demand forecasting for companies in the food industry is highly important, especially for those that deal with products that require refrigeration or that have short shelf-life, given the fact that the ... -
Lean Cables – A Step towards Competitive, Sustainable and Profitable Processes
Kang, Parminder Singh; Duffy, A. P.; Shires, Nigel; Smith, Trevor; Novels, Mike (Conference)In the business world, one of the key challenges is how to survive in ever changing business environments and outperforming the competitors, while keeping the operational cost at minimum and profits at maximum level. In ... -
Lean Improvements to Passenger Departure Flow in Abu Dhabi Airport: Focus on Data from the Check-in Element
Al-Dhaheri, Abdulla; Kang, Parminder Singh (Article)This is the second paper of three which concerns improving Passenger Departure Flow. The main aim of this paper is provide a summary of the research results, which includes both the reporting of empirical data collected ... -
Lean Six Sigma Approach to Improve the Admissions Process for a Nigerian HE Institute
Oko, Anthony; Kang, Parminder Singh (Article)Lean as a management paradigm has been applied extensively in manufacturing industries, and so little has been done in the area of its studies and application in managing affairs in education. This paper exemplifies the ... -
Passenger Departure Process Modelling to Investigate the Effect of Variability for a Major International Airport
Al-Dhaheri, Abdulla; Kang, Parminder Singh; Al-Halafi, M. (Conference)The special environment of any airport, especially a major international hub made process improvement and analysis difficult. This is due to the variability induced by several factors and which could potentially change, ... -
Process Control Parameters Evaluation Using Discrete Event Simulation for Business Process Optimization
Kang, Parminder Singh; Aboutaleb, Adam; Silva, Christopher Ugo; Duffy, A. P.; Erhart, Alexandre; Todeschini, Victor (Conference)The quest for manufacturing process improvement and higher levels of customer satisfaction mandates that organizations must be equipped with advanced tools and techniques in order to respond towards ever changing internal ... -
Simulation-based Reactive Scheduling for the Concrete Delivery Problem Using Actual Data and Delivery Site Constraints
Kang, Parminder Singh; Duffy, Alistair; Samarghandi, Hamed (Conference)Construction project control requires reliable delivery schedules. The delivery schedule decisions examine the information available regarding material, equipment, concrete quality controls, delivery times, construction ... -
Standalone closed-form formula for the throughput rate of asynchronous normally distributed serial flow lines
Aboutaleb, Adam; Kang, Parminder Singh; Hamzaoui, Raouf; Duffy, A. P. (Article)Flexible flow lines use flexible entities to generate multiple product variants using the same serial routing. Evaluative analytical models for the throughput rate of asynchronous serial flow lines were mainly developed ... -
Using Agent-Based Simulation to Investigate Daily Order Variation of a B2B Fresh Food Supplier
Clement, Ross; Kang, Parminder Singh; Hopewell, Ashley; Duffy, A. P. (Conference)Agent-based simulation has been used to simulate customers of a B2B fresh food supplier, in order to examine why total orders vary considerably on a day by day basis. Different types of virtual customers can be included ... -
Using Lean Philosophy to Improve Passenger Departure Flow in Abu Dhabi Airport
Kang, Parminder Singh; Al-Dhaheri, Abdulla (Article)Lean is an established process improvement philosophy to achieve the operational excellence and the benefits can be more than just improving the process. This is evident as the benefits of Lean are truly exploited in ... -
Value Stream Mapping and Simulation Modelling for Healthcare Transactional Process Improvement
Alrashed, I. A.; Kang, Parminder Singh; Duffy, Alistair (Conference)Lean management philosophy was originated in Japan from the Toyota production system. The main idea is to determine and eliminate waste. The concept of end-to-end value allows organizations to achieve competitive advantage ...