This study was undertaken with the objective to evaluate cost effectiveness of maintenance
operations of agricultural machinery at Fincha Sugar Factory (FSF) through determination of
lagging key performance indicators. ...
In Ethiopia's public transportation system, excessive passenger loading control has been a
significant problem. Despite certain traffic police personnel being stationed at particular
inspection sites for the manual ...
Aircraft, aerospace, ships, and rockets are complex engineering systems wi th many thousands of
components, glass fiber-polyester composite uses for these engineering applications. These
materials are exposed to ...
In the world, machines are designed and manufactured according the problem it will solve
and sometimes technology gets old according to the purpose it specifically aimed to solve.
So updating the past one is more ...
Natural fiber and synthetic fiber are used for many mechanical and structural applications
in engineering materials, and technological advancement has made them more valuable.
Composite materials that are made ...
Many engineering applications today are increasingly made of laminated composite
material. Hybridization technique wherein more than one type of fiber is combined in
the same matrix provides an added advantage to the ...
This time the demands of natural composite materials are growing rapidly to be used as a
construction material. Agrostone and other natural fiber/filler-based composite materials are
becoming the common construction ...
Maintenance as critical method to improve productivity and Total Productive
Maintenance (TPM) as functional discipline towards the management of physical asset
and enhancing overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) ...
Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is key equipment effectiveness measuring tool in
the implementation of total productive maintenance (TPM). Due to the limitations of
handling dynamic production loss, a deterministic ...
In today‘s market, competition companies are striving to remain the leader in the market. But to
exceed customer expectation with limited resource utilization is becoming a challenge.
Productivity is one of the major ...
Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) are used to increase and/or maintain
operational availability in both industries where failures result in catastrophic damage and
scrap output. Even if increasing/ ...
The primary objectives of any manufacturing company are to maximize production
capacity (volume) to meet the average customer demand and gain profit (Eshetie, 2018).
Uncertainty increases complexity in manufacturing ...
Global warming as a result of greenhouse gas emissions is a hot topic that has been discussed
repeatedly. Traditional cooking methods are a source of greenhouse gas emissions, which also
contribute to deforestation. ...
Solar cookers are heat exchanging devices which can used for converting solar energy to cooking,
replacing traditional way of cooking. The problems to consider while designing solar cookers
which can be address to the ...
Ethiopia’s wide range of agro-climatic conditions and soil types make it suitable for the
production of diverse verities of fruits including tropical and subtropical fruits, around 47
thousand hectares of land are under ...
Solar collector is one of the solar energy technologies that has been used in the world. This
simple device like flat plate solar collector can convert the solar energy into heat energy.
However, solar collector’s ...
We performed a multidisciplinary research of plant leaf inspired wind turbine blade by 4D printing.
We conducted airfoil selection sizing of tapper sections of the leaf main vein using Matlab
iteration. The research ...
Distribution systems reliability is a great concern to any electric power utility company. Power
utility companies are working to provide reliable power through many systems.In this thesis, the
reliability of an ...
Energy efficiency improvement is a vital action to overcome the problem of energy crisis.
In Ethiopia, industrial parks are becoming vast energy demanding and consuming sector.
Bole Lemi I industrial park (BLIP I) ...
The distribution feeder was one of the components of the power distribution system. Based on
the scheme of connection, the radial distribution feeder belonged to the simplest distribution
feeder that was used to ...