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Implementation of Lean Operation User Manual

J4001_202109 (Current)

09/21/2021

SAE J4001 provides instruction for evaluating levels of compliance to SAE J4000. Component text (Sections 4 to 9) from SAE J4000 is included for convenience during the evaluation process. Applicable definitions and references are contained in SAE J4000. SAE J4000 tests lean implementation within a manufacturing organization and includes those areas of direct overlap with the organization’s suppliers and customers. If applied to each consecutive organizational link, an enterprise level evaluation can be made. SAE J4001 relates the following approximate topic percentages to the implementation process as a whole: SAE J4001 is to be applied on a specific component basis. Each of the 52 components tests part of, one, or multiples of the specific requirements of lean implementation. Implementation throughout an organization may be measured by evaluating all of the components. The level of compliance for each component relative to best practice may be used as a reference by an organization to

Automotive Quality and Process Improvement Committee

Implementation of Lean Operation User Manual

J4001_202109-TEST-REC (Historical)09/21/2021

Automotive Quality and Process Improvement Committee

SUPPLIER EYE

21AUTP08_0508/01/2021

Stellantis' commitment of €30 billion ($35.5B) to electrifying its product portfolio across 14 brands by 2025 joins the seemingly endless flow of capital and human resources towards the electric-mobility future. The list of significant outliers is gone. Virtually every OEM and most suppliers are outlining how they will benefit from the structural, logistical, and value-add shifts which will result. Of course, there will be winners and losers through this multi-decade process. No organization has an assured future. The smartest OEMs and suppliers are using this once-in-a-lifetime transformation to redefine all aspects of their business model. Increasing profitability, revenue stability and lower overall risk are their goals - while they strategize how to build long-term, differentiated profitability in a battery-electric vehicle (BEV) world. Suppliers tell me they're evaluating everything in their “toolboxes” - R&D, manufacturing, engineering talent, upstream suppliers and even future

Personnel Protection - Compact Tool Carriers

J2752_202107 (Current)07/07/2021

OPTC1, Personnel Protection (General)

Stability Criteria for Accurate Path Tracking in Automated Guided Vehicle Systems

2021-01-009304/06/2021

Satisfactory performance of intelligent vehicles systems in tracking a predefined trajectory requires an efficient control scheme to generate steering control signals from posture errors (i.e., errors in position and orientation). For such systems, it is necessary at each instant to control steering action so that any deviation from the path is corrected in a stable manner, in a reasonable time and without any oscillation about the desired path. This paper deals with stability of motion and motion control of intelligent vehicle systems. In this regard, the general control structure and specification of an optimum range of predefined control parameters for accurate path tracking of these systems are determined. A two degree of freedom (DOF) nonlinear dynamic model is developed to represent their plane motion. Path tracking of the vehicle is attained by controlling the position and orientation errors about the trajectory, which is accomplished by modifying the steering input signal on

Mehrabi, Mostafa

A Framework for Benchmarking Feedback-Based Dynamic Data Collection Methods in Connected Vehicle Networks

2021-01-018404/06/2021

Supervised, unsupervised and active learning techniques can be used to develop prognostics and diagnostics in connected vehicle networks, where a wide variety of sensors are available for data collection. However, constraints placed by the on-board equipment, vehicle network, time, and human resources limit the amount of sensor data and labels for machine learning. When no prior information about the data distribution or domain knowledge is available, it becomes a challenging task to collect limited and relevant data to train a machine learning model matching the desired performance threshold. To tackle this challenge, techniques such as experimental design, feature selection, and active learning can be applied, and the data collection process can be advanced to a closed-loop system where new data collection decisions are made based on the feedback from collected data. In this paper, an iterative design and evaluation procedure is considered to develop and deploy these feedback-based

Sahin, Alp, Zeng, Xiangrui

Identification and Measurement of Best Practice in Implementation of Lean Operation

J4000_202104 (Current)

04/06/2021

SAE J4000 is a tool to identify and measure best practice in the implementation of lean operation in a manufacturing organization. Implementation of lean operation is defined as the process of eliminating waste exhibited in an organization’s value stream. Best practice in this process is Level 3 conduct as described in the standard’s component statements. A description of the levels of implementation is: A procedure for evaluation and scoring of each component will be included in the SAE J4001 Implementation of Lean Operation User Manual.

Automotive Quality and Process Improvement Committee

Nomenclature - Industrial and Agricultural Mowers

J990_202011 (Current)

11/03/2020

Illustrations used here are not intended to include all existing industrial or agricultural machines, or to be exactly descriptive of any particular machine. They have been picked to describe the principles to be used in applying this standard.

OPTC1, Personnel Protection (General)

SAE TOMORROW TODAY: Reinventing Transportation in a Positive Way

1291010/08/2020

Pittsburgh has become a hotbed for mobility innovation and one of the leaders is undoubtedly Argo AI. This week, we are joined by our Steel City neighbor, Bryan Salesky, co-founder and CEO of Argo AI, to discuss Argo's approach to automated vehicles, the role of autonomy in improving mobility for all, and how the education system should develop smarter thinkers and future leaders. Throughout the conversation, Bryan discusses how safety plays an essential role in establishing autonomous vehicles as a trusted technology that people will understand, adopt and support. And as such, the defining legacy of eliminating cars crashes to improve society is touched upon. Bryan talks about how Argo has built relationships and partnerships with cities based on mutual trust and respect. He details Argo's approach to solving specific needs in cities; the company's efforts in Washington, DC, Austin, Texas, and Miami; the importance of a playbook to operationalize consistency in every city; and how

Hineman, Marcie

Trailer Towing Driving Skill Certification

J3300/2_202005 (Current)05/26/2020

Driving Skills Standards Committee

Driving Level Skill Certification

J3300_202005-TEST-REC (Historical)05/13/2020

Driving Skills Standards Committee

Driving Level Skill Certification

J3300_202005 (Current)

05/13/2020

Driving Skills Standards Committee

Color-Changing Bandages Sense and Treat Bacterial Infections

TBMG-3625303/01/2020

According to the World Health Organization, antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health. Sensing and treating bacterial infections earlier could help improve patients’ recovery, as well curb the spread of antibiotic-resistant microbes. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have developed color-changing bandages that can sense drug-resistant and drug-sensitive bacteria in wounds and treat them accordingly.

Micro Device Detects Ebola Virus Using Bio-Sensors

TBMG-3580101/01/2020

A prototype micro device with biosensors was developed that can detect the deadly Ebola virus. With this type of device, those infected can be treated earlier, and the early detection process can potentially decrease the spread of infections.

AIRCRAFT SOFTWARE COMMON CONFIGURATION REPORTING

ARINC843-1 (Current)08/13/2019

This standard defines a common configuration report format that can be retrieved from an aircraft for use by ground tools and maintenance personnel. Reports will be generated in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format and structured as defined by this document. Several optional elements and attributes are defined to allow flexibility for a given report. This standard provides aircraft manufacturers, regulatory agencies, and airlines a format standard for aircraft configuration reporting, and facilitates automated comparison of configuration data reports (e.g., authorized versus as flying, etc.).

Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee

Reconstruction of 3D Accident Sites Using USGS LiDAR, Aerial Images, and Photogrammetry

2019-01-042304/02/2019

The accident reconstruction community has previously relied upon photographs and site visits to recreate a scene. This method is difficult in instances where the site has changed or is not accessible. In 2017 the United States Geological Survey (USGS) released historical 3D point clouds (LiDAR) allowing for access to digital 3D data without visiting the site. This offers many unique benefits to the reconstruction community including: safety, budget, time, and historical preservation. This paper presents a methodology for collecting this data and using it in conjunction with aerial imagery, and camera matching photogrammetry to create 3D computer models of the scene without a site visit. To determine accuracies achievable using this method, evidence locations solved for using only USGS LiDAR, aerial images and scene photographs (representative of emergency personnel photographs) were compared with known locations documented using total station survey equipment and ground-based 3D laser

Terpstra, Toby, Dickinson, Jordan, Hashemian, Alireza, Fenton, Stephen

EDITORIAL: Why would you want to be a mobility engineer?

19AUTP04_0604/01/2019

Reporting on product development, technology, and process in the auto industry has always been compelling for me-I've been at it for over 30 years. And experience proves that whenever events start to seem smooth and predictable, change and disruption are on the way. As I write this in late March, the industry is unsettled. Companies are restructuring. Consolidations loom. Product lines that launched with great promise are getting the axe. They're victims of falling sales, shifting priorities, rising costs, trade friction and waning consumer interest.

Brooke, Lindsay

Prediction of Weather Impacts on Airport Arrival Meter Fix Capacity

2019-01-135003/19/2019

This paper introduces a data driven model for predicting airport arrival capacity with 2-8 hour look-ahead forecast data. The model is suitable for air traffic flow management by explicitly investigating the impact of convective weather on airport arrival meter fix throughput. Estimation of the arrival airport capacity under arrival meter fix flow constraints due to severe weather is an important part of Air Traffic Management (ATM). Airport arrival capacity can be reduced if one or more airport arrival meter fixes are partially or completely blocked by convective weather. When the predicted airport arrival demands exceed the predicted available airport’s arrival capacity for a sustained period, Ground Delay Program (GDP) operations will be triggered by ATM system. Severe imbalances between demand and capacity occur most frequently when the airport capacity is severely degraded due to either bad airport terminal surface weather or inclement convective weather around airport arrival

Wang, Yao

FIBER OPTIC TRAINING REQUIREMENTS

ARINC807-4 (Current)01/10/2019

This document is based upon the SAE ARP5602 document, A Guideline for Aerospace Platform Fiber Optic Training and Awareness Education. ARINC Report 807: Fiber Optic Training Requirements is a subset of the SAE ARP5602 document designed to meet the requirements of the commercial air transport industry. Certification to the SAE ARP5602 document fulfills the requirements of ARINC Report 807. This document defines recommended general practices for training requirements of aerospace fiber optic systems. It is the intention of this document to outline proven training practices and general standards of workmanship for technicians engaged in aerospace fiber optic manufacturing, installation, maintenance, and repair for the air transport industry. It is also recommended that management and purchasing personnel receive fundamental training to familiarize themselves with the requirements of aerospace fiber optics.

Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee

Wearable “Microbrewery” Monitors Radiation Exposure

TBMG-3362601/01/2019

Radiology workers are regularly exposed to low doses of radiation when they obtain patient imagery such as X-rays. While protective gear largely keeps workers within a safe range of radiation exposure, absorbing a little bit is still inevitable. Radiation doses creeping above regulated guidelines pose risk for developing conditions such as cancer, cataracts, skin irritation, or thyroid disease.

Multifunctional, Integrated, Photonic Lab-on-a-Chip for Astronaut Health Monitoring

TBMG-3284609/01/2018

Handheld Tracking and Communications Device

TBMG-2870404/01/2018

Leaders of teams such as first responders must maintain situational awareness to effectively react, coordinate, and respond to circumstances that can often become hazardous. Effective communications and positional information of assets, including personnel, are critical to decision-makers in coordinating such activities.

Portable Device for Rapid Detection of the Zika Virus

TBMG-28190

01/01/2018

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) listed more than 5,000 cases of the Zika virus in the U.S. from January 2015 to February 2017. The vast majority of those cases were travelers returning from affected areas. Florida has the highest number of cases of the Zika virus at 1,069 reported cases, with 214 cases acquired through presumed local mosquito-borne transmission.

New Rapid Test Helps Diagnose Malaria

TBMG-2812901/01/2018

The WHO reports an estimated 429,000 malaria deaths each year. The disease mostly affects tropical and sub-tropical regions and in particular the African continent. The Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC teamed up with the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME and the Institute of Tropical Medicine at the University of Tubingen to develop a new test method to detect malaria parasites in blood. The idea of the research project, NanoFRET, is to develop a highly sensitive and reliable rapid diagnostic test so that patient treatment can begin as early as possible.

Compact, Portable Device for Structural Vibration Reduction

TBMG-2770110/01/2017

Tuned mass dampers are used worldwide to mitigate vibrations in structures like buildings and bridges where excessive movement can be alarming or even sickening to occupants. The vast majority are multi-ton devices that occupy an average of 1,000 square feet, and are complex and costly to install, tune, and maintain.

Data Fusion Techniques for Object Identification in Airport Environment

2017-01-210909/19/2017

Airport environments consist of several moving objects both in the air and on the ground. In air moving objects include aircraft, UAVs and birds etc. On ground moving objects include aircraft, ground vehicles and ground personnel etc. Detecting, classifying, identifying and tracking these objects are necessary for avoiding collisions in all environmental situations. Multiple sensors need to be employed for capturing the object shape and position from multiple directions. Data from these sensors are combined and processed for object identification. In current scenario, there is no comprehensive traffic monitoring system that uses multisensor data for monitoring in all the airport areas. In this paper, for explanation purposes, a hypothetical airport traffic monitoring system is presumed that uses multiple sensors for avoiding collisions. The referenced system employs multiple types of sensors for object data collection in different situations, wherein the collected multi object data is

Thupakula, Kiran

Growing Your Influence Through Building Trust

1228606/15/2017

SAE International's Chief Human Resources Officer Melinda Rombold presented a skillshop at WCX17: SAE World Congress Experience in Detroit, Michigan. In her remarks, Rombold explained that when there is a high level of trust from both parties, situations are very easily managed, enhanced, and enjoyable. But when the opposite is the case, there is little or no trust; it is more likely to be exhausting, unproductive, costly, and even antagonistic. SAE Members can view the full panel session by logging into the Member Connection. Not a Member? Join us today at sae.org/join.

A Cost-Effective Offline Routing Optimization Approach to Employee Shuttle Services

2017-01-024003/28/2017

Ride Hailing service and Dynamic Shuttle are two key smart mobility practices, which provide on-demand door-to-door ride-sharing service to customers through smart phone apps. On the other hand, some big companies spend millions of dollars annually in third party vendors to offer shuttle services to pick up and drop off employees at fixed locations and provide them daily commutes for employees to and from work. Efficient fixed routing algorithms and analytics are the key ingredients for operating efficiency behind these services. They can significantly reduce operating costs by shortening bus routes and reducing bus numbers, while maintaining the same quality of service. This study developed an off-line optimization routing method for employee shuttle services including regular work shifts and demand based shifts (e.g. overtime shifts) in some regions.

Zhao, Yanli, Zhou, Hao, Liu, Yimin

Engineering Productivity Increase with Organization Architectures

2017-01-024803/28/2017

Motivation - Ambiguous product targets, a global market, innovation pressure, changing process requirements and limited resources describe the situation for engineering management in the most R&D organizations. Achieving complex objective with limited resources is a question of performance. Performance in engineering departments is highly correlated to the existing capability of the engineering staff. When the reduction of engineering effort in development projects becomes additional goal for the management, an increase of engineering productivity is required. International engineering sites are established globally to push the capacity limits and to increase the productivity by the accessing big employment markets of engineering talents. By solving the conflict of limited resources and complex engineering goals, a need organizational challenge occurs - global co-engineering. Co-engineering is the extension of simultaneous engineering by the distribution of tasks and responsibilities

Koark, Fabian Jorg Uwe, Korandla, Arvind

System and Method for Space Utilization Optimization and Visualization

TBMG-2552110/01/2016

NASA’s Langley Research Center has developed a space-allocation and planning software system to allow for more effective and efficient facility usage. It also provides a customizable strategy for organizing personnel and project teams to maximize productivity and synergies among employees. Cost-reduction solutions are suggested based on organizational input constraints related to the facility. The program uses a standard Web browser to allow for visualization of an entire organization down to individual rooms. The planning tool is based on algorithms that were developed using ArcGIS software and Visual Basic codes, which enable evaluation of different space-management scenarios in real time.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: New dawn at Honda R&D

16AUTP05_0105/01/2016

President Yoshiyuki Matsumoto aims to invigorate Honda's technology and product-development organization with “full soul.” Honda's new 10-speed automatic has not yet entered production, but it is already among the technologies that competitors are clamoring to benchmark when it enters the market. Designed and built in house, the new planetary transmission for front-drive vehicles, equipped with a torque converter, is as compact as Honda's incumbent 6-speed transaxle and is claimed to shift 30% faster and deliver a 14% improvement in acceleration. It's an impressive piece of engineering, but the new 10-speed's greatest attribute may be that it exists at all.

Yamaguchi, Jack

Next Generation FPGAs for Electronic Warfare Systems

TBMG-2438604/01/2016

Designers of virtually all electronic warfare system applications exploit CPUs and FPGAs, each offering unique strengths and advantages for handling a wide range of tasks. This diversity arises from fundamental differences in the devices. FPGAs consist of hardware logic, registers, memories, adders, multipliers and interfaces connected together by the user to perform a specific function. CPUs consist of ALUs, instruction execution engines, cache memory, dedicated I/O and memory ports all connected in a fixed architecture, whose resources are driven by program execution.

Super Pressure Balloon Provides NASA with Valuable Data

TBMG-2437004/01/2016

Super pressure balloon Raven Aerostar Sioux Falls, SD 605-336-2750

Electronic Warfare

16AERP04_0104/01/2016

NEXT GENERATION FPGAS FOR ELECTRONIC WARFARE SYSTEMS Designers of virtually all electronic warfare system applications exploit CPUs and FPGAs, each offering unique strengths and advantages for handling a wide range of tasks. This diversity arises from fundamental differences in the devices. FPGAs consist of hardware logic, registers, memories, adders, multipliers and interfaces connected together by the user to perform a specific function. CPUs consist of ALUs, instruction execution engines, cache memory, dedicated I/O and memory ports all connected in a fixed architecture, whose resources are driven by program execution. Electronic warfare systems impose some of the toughest restrictions on latency within the landscape of military electronics. For example, systems to defeat RCIEDs (radio controlled improvised explosive devices) must identify a signal that could detonate the device, and then immediately disable that communication through countermeasures. Essential tasks in the chain

Automated Scheduling of Personnel to Staff Operations for the Mars Science Laboratory

TBMG-2305810/01/2015

The task of producing Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) personnel schedules is daunting. Through automation, the labor and number of mistakes made are reduced when compared to the manual process. This software not only allows for common constraints to be expressed, but also for these to be gracefully descoped in case a solution cannot be found, thus making this unique in the personnel scheduling arena.

Analysis Lead Drivability Assessment

2015-01-280409/29/2015

Drivability and powertrain refinement continue to gain importance in the assessment of overall vehicle quality. This notion has transcended its light duty origins and is beginning to gain considerable traction in the medium and heavy duty markets. However, with drivability assessment and refinement also comes the high costs associated with vehicle testing, including items such as test facilities, prototype component evaluation, fuel and human resources. Taking all of this into account, any and all measures must be used to reduce the cost of drivability evaluation and powertrain refinement. This paper describes an analysis based co-simulation methodology, where sophisticated powertrain simulation and objective drivability evaluation tools can be used to predict vehicle drivability. A fast running GT power engine model combined with simplified controls representation in Matlab/Simulink was used to predict engine transients and responses. This high fidelity engine model was coupled with a

Walters, Travis Lee, Shaw, Phillip, Madurai Kumar, Mahesh, Hoop, Joshua

Human Hybrid Robot, Next-generation Support Technology for Manual Tasks: Challenges, Perspectives and Economic Implications

2015-01-260109/15/2015

Despite the increasing application of automated systems, manual tasks still plays an important role in industrial production. The intelligence and flexibility of human enable quick response and adaptive production for the individual requirements and the changes in market. Moreover, some manufacturing tasks with sensible and high-value components (e.g., in electronic and aircraft production) requires attentive manual handling. Regarding the requirement of increasing productivity as well as ergonomic improvement and the aging of the employees, there is a significant need for technologies which support the staff individually by performing tasks. Human Hybrid Robot, a hybrid system with direct coupling (serial and/or parallel) of human and mechatronic elements, is a new trend in application of robotic technologies for supporting manual tasks. It realizes a synchronous and bidirectional interaction between human and mechatronic and/or mechanic elements in the same workspace. This paper will

Yao, Zhejun, Weidner, Wiltrud, Weidner, Robert, Wulfsberg, Jens

Wearable Technologies as a Path to Single-Pilot Part 121 Operations

2015-01-244009/15/2015

Labor costs rank second only to fuel in expenses for commercial air transports. Labor issues are a growing concern in the airline industry, with an impending worldwide pilot shortage. One solution proposed and requested by some of the industry leaders is to allow a single flight crew member to operate the aircraft. Safety concerns represent the dominant barrier to single-pilot Part 121 operations. The FAA and Congress consistently demonstrate a bias toward conservatism in their regulation of airlines and commercial aircraft. Bureaucrats and the general public fall prey to isolated news stories that highlight pilot error and anchor their viewpoint on further regulating a two-person crew. Yet, in an alarming spate of recent airline accidents, the presence of multiple crewmembers did nothing to prevent, and actually may have contributed to, the crash. Technology is not the problem. The real challenge is to convince Federal regulators and the flying public that Part 121 operations can be

Moehle, Robert, Clauss, Jason

TAKING ACTION EARLY TO CONQUER THE STEM CRISIS

15MOMP09_0409/01/2015

Interest in STEM subjects falls precipitously as students progress through elementary and middle school. In the offensive to help develop a more technically skilled workforce, SAE International often finds itself charging up a hill to gain ground. It recently charged up Capitol Hill to convey urgency about the imperative of planting positive notions about STEM (science, technology engineering, and math) in the impressionable minds of the nation's young school-goers. “If you try to get to students interested in STEM at high school, it's too late. If you try to get them at college, it's too late,” Christopher Ciuca, SAE's Manager of Pre-Professional Programs, said at a congressional briefing on June 15 as part of the Capitol Hill Maker Faire. Getting more kids interested in STEM is a job that must be done in middle school-or, even better, elementary school.

Ponticel, Patrick

AIRCRAFT SOFTWARE COMMON CONFIGURATION REPORTING

ARINC843 (Current)07/31/2015

Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee

Motion Blur Evaluation Techniques

TBMG-22183

06/01/2015

Motion blur results when a moving edge travels across a display, such as a liquid crystal display (LCD), that has limited temporal response. It is important to be able to quantify this effect in visual terms. The techniques described in this work provide methods for estimating the strength of the motion blur artifact in perceptual units of JNDs (just noticeable differences).