Singaporean-Indian Women in Waiting (?): Singlehood, the Calculus of Care and Geographies of Being 'Family'

Ph.DDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPH

Managing Variety for Assembled Products: Modeling Component Systems Sharing

Component sharing—using the same version of a component across multiple products—is an approach adopted by many assembled-product manufacturers to achieve high final product variety with lower component variety and cost. This paper presents a methodology for determining which versions of a set of related components should be offered to optimally support a defined finished product portfolio. We develop optimization models that determine which versions of each component should be introduced and which of these versions each product should use to minimize design and production costs. This approach is appropriate for components with a relatively low impact on consumers’ perceptions about product differentiation, which can be shared across a set of products if they meet the most stringent performance requirements in the set. We illustrate our procedure on automotive braking systems, but also discuss its applicability to other components and industries. We identify three conceptually different organizational approaches to component sharing: a coordinated projects approach that requires higher-level organizational echelons above the individual project, a project-by-project approach that does not, and a hybrid partially coordinated approach. We use our model to examine how the gain from the coordinated projects approach relative to the project-by-project approach varies with the number of component versions in consideration, warranty costs, complexity costs, and demand variability. Further, we use our model to highlight the risk of using simplistic heuristics to determine design sequence within a component system in a partially coordinated approach

SPECTACLE, SURVEILLANCE & RESISTANCE : THE POLITICS OF SPACE IN SYONAN-TO, 1942-1945

Bachelor'sBACHELOR OF ARTS (HONOURS

Women in waiting? Singlehood, marriage, and family in Singapore

10.1068/a4444Environment and Planning A444832-84

Contesting landscapes of familyhood: Singlehood, the AWARE Saga and Pink Dot celebrations

Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries109-12

Does Component Sharing Help or Hurt Reliability? An Empirical Study in the Automotive Industry

Component sharing--the use of a component on multiple products within a firm's product line--is widely practiced as a means of offering high variety at low cost. Although many researchers have examined trade-offs involved in component sharing, little research has focused on the impact of component sharing on quality. In this paper, we examine how component sharing impacts one dimension of quality--reliability--defined as mean time to failure. Design considerations suggest that a component designed uniquely for a product will result in higher reliability due to the better fit of the component within the architecture of the product. On the other hand, the learning curve literature suggests that greater experience with a component can improve conformance quality, and can increase reliability via learning from end-user feedback. The engineering literature suggests that improved conformance in turn increases reliability. Sharing a component across multiple products increases experience, and hence, should increase reliability. Using data from the automotive industry, we find support for the hypothesis that higher component reliability is associated with higher cumulative experience with a component. Further, we find support for the hypothesis that higher component reliability is associated with a component that has been designed uniquely for a product. This finding suggests that the popular design strategy of component sharing can in some cases compromise product quality, via reduced reliability.empirical study, benefits of specific design, quality, component sharing

Generative Spaces of Gender and Feminist Geography in Singapore: Entanglements of the Personal and Political

10.1080/0966369X.2018.1552121Gender, Place & Culture267-91233-124