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Projects

Current Projects

System Design in Higher Education: Achievements and Insights (2022)
Purdue Fort Wayne faces challenges including demographic shifts, financial strain, and staff turnover. These hinder its ability to achieve its mission of student success. The Student Success Standard Process (SSSP) project used systems insights to improve the institution’s ability to foster student success. 

Information Model to Advance Explainable AI-Based Decision Support Systems in Manufacturing System Design
David S Cochran published a paper about the utilization of artificial intelligence in the area of manufacturing. 

The objective is to propose an information model to express system design requirements with the goal to provide a transparent representation of decisions as well as alternatives of decisions to improve the description of artificial intelligence-based decision support systems during the manufacturing system (re)design phase.

Keywords: Industry 4.0 · Smart manufacturing · Information model · Explainable artificial intelligence · Decision support systems

Publications

  • Recent Publications

    Recent Publications

    Cochran, D. S., Smith., J, Mark, B. G., and Rauch, E. (2022). “Information Model to Advance Explainable AI-Based Decision Support Systems in Manufacturing System Design," 1st International Symposium on Industrial Engineering and Automation, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

    Rauch, E. and Cochran, D. S., (2021). “Sustainable Introduction of Industry 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Rome, Italy.

    Cochran, D. S., Foley, J., Puik, E., Puik, L., and Smith, J., Chapter 15, (2021). "Complexity in the Kitchen," Design Engineering and Science, Suh, N. P., Springer.

    Cochran, D. S., and Rauch, E. (2020). “Sustainable Enterprise Design 4.0: Addressing Industry 4.0 Technologies from the Perspective of Sustainability,” Procedia Manufacturing, Vol. 51, pp. 1237-1244.

    Cochran, D. S., and Smith, J., Chapter 7, (2019). "How to Develop and Sustain a Lean Organization through the Use of Collective System Design," Emerging Frontiers in Industrial and Systems Engineering:  Success Through Collaboration, Nembhard, H., Cudney, D., Coperich, K., CRC Press.

    Cochran, D. S., Swartz, J., Elahi, B., and Smith, J. (2018). "Using the Collective System Design Methodology to Improve Medical Center Emergency Room Performance," Journal of Medical Systems, Vol. 42, Issue 12, Article 242.

  • Past Publications

    Past Publications

    Cochran, D., Schmidt., G., Oxtoby, J., Hensley, M., and Barnes, J. (2017). “Using Collective System Design to Define and Communicate Organization Goals and Related Solutions,” Journal of Enterprise Transformation, Vol. 7, Issue 1-2.

    Cochran, D. S., Arinez, J. F., Collins, M. T., and Bi, Z. (2017). “Modelling of Human-Machine Interaction in Equipment Design of Manufacturing Cells,” Enterprise Information Systems, Vol. 11, No. 7. pp. 969-987.

    Cochran, D. S., Foley, J. T., and Bi, Z. (2017). "Use of the Manufacturing System Design Decomposition for Comparative Analysis and Effective Design of Production Systems," International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 55, No. 3. pp. 870-890.

    Foley, J. T. and Cochran, D. S. (May 10-12, 2017). “Manufacturing System Design Decomposition: An Ontology for Data Analytics and System Design Evaluation,” 27th CIRP Design Conference, Procedia CIRP, Vol. 60, pp. 175 – 180.

    Cochran, D. S., Hendricks, S., Barnes, J. and Bi, Z. (2016). “Extension of Axiomatic Design Theory to Implement Manufacturing Systems that are Sustainable,” ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering: Special Issue on Sustainable Manufacturing, Vol. 138, No.10. pp. 1-10.

    Foley, J. T., Puik, E. and Cochran, D. S. (September 21-23, 2016). "Desirable Complexity," 10th ICAD, Procedia CIRP, Vol. 53, pp. 101-106.

    Cochran, D. S., Jafri, M. U., Chu, A. K., and Bi, Z. (2016). "Incorporating Design Improvement with Effective Evaluation using the Manufacturing System Design Decomposition," Journal of Industrial Information Integration, Vol. 2, pp. 65-74.

    Cochran, D. S., Kinard, D. and Bi, Z. (June 15-17, 2016). "Manufacturing System Design meets Big Data Analytics for Continuous Improvement," 26th CIRP Design Conference, Procedia CIRP, Vol. 50, pp. 647-652.

    Cochran, D. S., Li, J., Vanover, K. and Foley, J. T. (June 15-17, 2016). "A System Design of a Rural Hospital Operating Room," 26th CIRP Design, Procedia CIRP, Vol. 50, pp. 672-677.

    Spencer, A. J., and Cochran, D. S. (Sept. 16-18, 2015). "Design Decomposition for Selecting an Electric Arc Furnace Off-Gas System for SDI Butler Flat Roll Division," 9th ICAD, Procedia CIRP, Vol. 34, pp. 143 - 149.

    Setzer, C. and Cochran, D. S. (2015). “Maintaining Two Decade Power Amplifier Bandwidth,” Electronics Letters, Vol. 51, No 20. pp. 1587-1589.

    Bi, Z., and Cochran, D. S. (2014). “Big Data Analytics with Applications,” Journal of Management Analytics, Vol. 1, No 4. pp. 249-265.

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