The Agile Windmill: Unleashing Project Success in Dutch Asset Management

The use of Agile methodologies has been steadily growing in popularity in recent years, with many organisations across various industries adopting it to manage their projects. This shift in project management practices has replaced traditional project management styles, and Agile methodologies like Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban are widely used....

The monad and examples from Haskell: A computer-checked library for Category Theory in Lean

Category Theory is a widely used field of Mathematics.<br/>Some concepts from it are often used in functional programming.<br/>This paper will focus on the Monad and a few implementations of it from Haskell.<br/>We will also present the computer-checked library we have written to help us in this task.

A Computer-Checked Library of Category Theory: Universal Properties of Category Theory in Functional Programming

Category theory is a branch of mathematics that is used to abstract and generalize other mathematical concepts. Its core idea is to take the emphasis off the details of the elements of these concepts and put it on the relationships between them instead. The elements can then be characterized in terms of their relationships using various...

Marketing Campaign for Mhogo Foods: Desining a Pilot Strategy

This project is a collaborative effort between graduating student Johan van der Schaaf from Delft University of Technology, BoP Innovation Center and client organization Mhogo Foods. The project is conducted mainly in Nairobi, Kenya and focuses on building a marketing pilot for Mhogo Foods to increase access to nutrition in low-income markets....

Redesigning and modelling of a food assembly process: A case study at KLM Catering Services

This paper deals with the food flow for intercontinental KLM flights. The aim of this research is to design a framework to optimize the processes of food assembly and subsequently apply the framework to increase the throughput time at the intercontinental department of KLM Catering Services. A discrete event simulation model is created to...

Quality of the integral aircraft engine MRO chain: A case study on the Low and High Pressure Compressors at KLM Engineering & Maintenance Engine Services

This research presents a model to estimate the influence of the variance of the quality of repair steps on the EGT Margin within the serviceable limits of the overhauled modules. This model is created using literature and a single case study conducted at KLM Engineering &amp; Maintenance Engine services (KLM E&amp;M ES). The model is tested...

Aircraft Engine Combustor Maintenance: A model to measure MRO turnaround time

This thesis involves a case-study of aircraft engine combustor maintenance at KLM E&M, which has been used as a basis to develop a discrete event simulation model that allows TAT to be measured, and the effects of changes to the main process value drivers to be successfully tested. The main research question this research sought to answer is:...

Lean Systems Engineering

Waste is present in all projects. Failed projects represent the most waste, but even the most successful projects are burdened with lots of waste as well (Oppenheim, 2011). This suggests that (work) processes aren’t designed properly. This research will search for practical tools that could help reduce or eliminate this waste. The Systems...

Business Process Management in an Accounting Firm

Market pressure for cost-efficiency is forcing, and the implementation of XBRL is enabling, accounting firms to optimize their business processes to become more cost-efficient. While the manufacturing industry has benefited much from available BPM methodology for becoming more agile, leaner, cost-effective and customer-focused, it is still...

Flexibility as foundation of Sustainability: Lifecycle focus as a process approach towards 'Evolving Buildings' in our 'City of Tomorrow

Our society and economy are constantly changing. In spite of this the demands and wishes of users also changes. Most of the current building stock is developed as mono-functional buildings to fulfil the demand at a particular moment. They are not designed for the lifespan in which they are functional. Because of their shortcomings in...

Multifunctionele Afbouwteams: Het ontwerpen van een afbouwmethode op basis van het gebruik van multifunctionele afbouwteams en lean thinking

Een onderzoek naar de mogelijke verbeteringen in de samenwerking tussen aannemer en onderaannemer om de faalkosten in de afbouwfase van een woningbouwproces te reduceren. Het hoge faalkosten van 12,9% in de afbouwfase van een woningbouwproces wordt geanalyseerd, waarna er een ontwerponderzoek wordt verricht. Dit resulteert in een afbouwmethode...