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International University of HoChiMinh City
Industrial and Systems Engineering Department
CAPSTONE GUIDELINES
HoChiMinh City, 19 December, 2018
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Chapter I. INTRODUCTION
1. Motivation: the need of the project
2. Problem Statement – The Need of Study:
- Current system description - Identify the problem or the gap needed to fill in the case. - What need to solve or achieve?
3. The Design Project Objectives and Requirements
- Who will be benefit to have the results of this study? - What are expected outputs and/or application? What are expected results ? - Design requirements.
4. Scope and Limitations:
- Assumptions, if any. - Specify some practical constraints
5. Project Plan - Specify Project Plan with Gantt Chart - Project Jobs: Problem Identification, Design Concepts Consideration, System Design, Prototype Development and Implementation, Results Analysis, Report Writing
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Chapter II. DESIGN CONCEPTS CONSIDERATION
1. Overview: - Introduction to the case, studied company.
2. Literature Review: - Investigate curent development approaches in literature related to the similar systems - Summarize and classify the systems.
3. Current System Investigation:
- Investigate curent system: what components? Structure? How does it work? - Advantages and disadvantages of current system
4. Design Concepts Consideration
- Suggested Areas of Improvement - Brief Description of Possible Approaches/Tools for Improvements
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Chapter III. SYSTEM DESIGN
1. Approaches Comparison and Selection: - Summarize advantages and disadvantages of the considered approaches - Conduct qualitative and/or quantitative comparison to select the final approach
2. System Design Description:
- From the selected approach, develop design structre of the proposed system. - Design Description - Analyze and justify the techniques to be used. - Key Advantages of the proposed system design
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Chapter IV. PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT AND
IMLEMENTATION 1. Prototype Development: - Identify parameters, Collected Data - Construction the protoype for the system
2. Results: - Implementation - Conduct test runs - Describe the obtained results of the prototype’s solution
3. Analysis: - - Conduct validation (experiments, measure of prototype outputs,…) and analyze the efficiency of the obtained system performance - Compare alternative solutions subject to feasibility constraints (economic factors, environmental and social) and the appropriate standards: ISO, OSHA, ANSI,HACPP, TCVN . . . - Analyze and evaluate the environmental, social and economic impacts
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Chapter V. CONCLUSIONS 1. Summary of results: contributions, benefits
