How Can Big Data Analytics Improve Outbound Logistics in The UK Retail Sector? A Qualitative Study (2023)
Journal Article
Ali, M., & Essien, A. (2023). How Can Big Data Analytics Improve Outbound Logistics in The UK Retail Sector? A Qualitative Study. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/JEIM-08-2022-0282

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore how big data analytics (BDA) as a potential information technology (IT) innovation can facilitate the retail logistics supply chain (SC) from the perspective of outbound logistics operations in the Un... Read More about How Can Big Data Analytics Improve Outbound Logistics in The UK Retail Sector? A Qualitative Study.

SPARC 2021 - Against all odds : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts (2021)
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Thomas, A., Ibrahim, A., Abraham, A., Halilu, A., Adeosun, A., Court, A., …Whitehead, H. (2021). H. Bury, S. Gowda, T. Ireland, L. Mitchell, E. Oginni, T. Poppelreuter, …D. Whitnall (Eds.), SPARC 2021 - Against all odds : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts. Salford, United Kingdom: University of Salford

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2021 SPARC conference. Our conference is called “Against All Odds” as we celebrate the achievements of our PGRs and their supervisors, who have continued to excel despite the most challenging circumstances. Fo... Read More about SPARC 2021 - Against all odds : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts.

SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts (2019)
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Aarons, T., Abduljawad, S. A. S., Aboelkheir, A., Addis, M. C., Adeboye, O., Adeniyi, I. A., …Yusup, N. H. (2019). E. M. Barnes, D. Greensmith, M. Griffiths, U. Hurley, T. Ireland, C. Starbuck, …D. Whitnall (Eds.), SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts. Salford, UK: University of Salford

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2019 SPARC conference. This year we not only celebrate the work of our PGRs but also our first ever Doctoral School Best Supervisor awards, which makes this year’s conference extra special. Once again we have... Read More about SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts.

Modelling and application of condition-based maintenance for a two-component system with stochastic and economic dependencies (2018)
Journal Article
Do, P., Assaf, R., Scarf, P., & Iung, B. (2019). Modelling and application of condition-based maintenance for a two-component system with stochastic and economic dependencies. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 182, 86-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2018.10.007

This paper develops a model of a condition-based maintenance policy for a two-component system with both stochastic and economic dependencies. The stochastic dependency is such that the degradation rate of each component depends not only on its own... Read More about Modelling and application of condition-based maintenance for a two-component system with stochastic and economic dependencies.

Wear rate-state interactions within a multi-component system : a study of a gearbox accelerated life testing platform (2018)
Journal Article
Assaf, R., Do, P., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Scarf, P. (2018). Wear rate-state interactions within a multi-component system : a study of a gearbox accelerated life testing platform. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 232(4), 425-434. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748006X18764061

The degradation process of complex multi-component systems is highly stochastic in nature. A major side effect of this complexity is that components of such systems may have unexpected reduced life and faults and failures that decrease the reliabil... Read More about Wear rate-state interactions within a multi-component system : a study of a gearbox accelerated life testing platform.

SPARC 2018 Internationalisation and collaboration : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts (2018)
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Abdu, Y., Abduljawad, S., Abdullahi, R., Abraham, A., Adamu, H., Adeleke, A., …Usman, B. (2018). T. Ireland (Ed.), SPARC 2018 Internationalisation and collaboration : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts. Salford, UK: University of Salford

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2018 SPARC conference. This year we not only celebrate the work of our PGRs but also the launch of our Doctoral School, which makes this year’s conference extra special. Once again we have received a tremendou... Read More about SPARC 2018 Internationalisation and collaboration : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts.

Joint maintenance-inventory optimisation of parallel production systems (2018)
Journal Article
Zahedi-Hosseini, F., Scarf, P., & Syntetos, A. (2018). Joint maintenance-inventory optimisation of parallel production systems. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 48(Part A), 73-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmsy.2018.06.002

We model a joint inspection and spare parts inventory policy for maintaining machines in a parallel system, where simultaneous downtime seriously impacts upon production performance and has a significant financial consequence. This dependency between... Read More about Joint maintenance-inventory optimisation of parallel production systems.

Optimisation of inspection policy for multi-line production systems (2018)
Journal Article
Zahedi-Hosseini, F., Syntetos, A., & Scarf, P. (2018). Optimisation of inspection policy for multi-line production systems. European Journal of Industrial Engineering, 12(2), 233. https://doi.org/10.1504/EJIE.2018.090616

This paper develops a simulation model to determine the cost-optimum inspection policy for a multi-line production system taking account of simultaneous downtime. The machines in the multi-line system are subject to a two stage failure process that i... Read More about Optimisation of inspection policy for multi-line production systems.

SPARC 2022 book of abstracts
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Ardo, A., Abdullahi, A., Bennett, A., Mbabu, A., Woodman, A., Foster, A., …Taylor, T. T. Ireland (Ed.), SPARC 2022 book of abstracts. Salford, United Kingdom: University of Salford

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2022 SPARC conference. Our conference is called “Moving Forwards” reflecting our re-emergence from the pandemic and our desire to reconnect our PGR community, in celebration of their research. PGRs have co... Read More about SPARC 2022 book of abstracts.