Supply chains provide a network describing how resources move from a source to delivery for consumption by the end user. Supply chains also involve the components involved in production and transportation of the commodities being moved in the supply chain. There is a need for modeling links in a supply chain to estimate supply and demand and to ensure...

In many production systems like semiconductor manufacturing, food industry, and battery production, the amount of time a part can spend in successive buffers is limited in many production systems because of possible quality concerns. If a part's residence time exceeds these limits, it must be trashed, which results in waste and lost output. To prevent...

Background Recent efforts to address climate change and develop a clean-energy economy in the United States have focused on the electrification of the transportation sector. Sustainable battery manufacturing has become a critical part of these efforts, and current manufacturing practices face challenges relating to environmental impact, advancing electrode...

Invention Description The reliability of microelectronic packaging is increasingly challenged by the phenomenon of electromigration in lead-free solder joints, where high current densities cause material transport and eventual failure. Traditional characterization methods, such as optical and scanning electron microscopy, are restricted to two-dimensional...

The Best Value Approach (BVA) technology was authored and developed by Professor Dean Kashiwagi at the Performance Based Studies Research Group (PBSRG) at Arizona State University (ASU) from 1992–2017. In 2017 Dean Kashiwagi moved PBSRG and the development of the BVA to the Kashiwagi Solution Model (KSM). In 2019, Dr. Kashiwagi utilized dBA students...