Bouksour Otmane

• Professor
• LMPGI laboratory member at University of Hassan II Casablanca

This study investigates the optimization of printing parameters for 3D-printed lattice structures, with a focus on maximizing their rigidity. Novel centered lattices were manufactured using fused deposition modeling (FDM), and a comprehensive experimental approach was employed to identify the optimal printing configurations. A total of nine samples...

Additive manufacturing creates objects layer by layer using digital data. Currently, Numerous industry sectors employ additive manufacturing technology. It provides a large number of benefits, including waste minimization, design freedom, mass reduction and rapid prototyping with a wide selection of possible material. However, to fully profit of th...

The work aims to propose a comprehensive design framework for additive manufacturing and apply it to a case study of the height adjuster handle of a car. The aim is to provide designers and engineers with a practical example of how the framework can be used to design a complex part for additive manufacturing. The article also aims to demonstrate th...

Additive manufacturing, has shown great promises, offering unexpectable design freedom and manufacturing flexibility. but traditional design methodologies cannot fully exploit the functionality of am. this study explores the impact of generative design and topology optimization in the design and production of parts in additive production. by using...

The objective of the paper is to design and characterise with polylactic acid (PLA) material three cellular structures in the form of lattices which are diagonal-octet-centred shapes for two sizes 6x6x6 and 12x12x12 with a compression test to examine their stiffness using FDM technology compared to polyjet technology.The study used two analytical a...

Additive manufacturing creates objects from digital files and this layer by layer. Nowadays, additive manufacturing technologies are in full development, and are used in several industrial fields. It has a significant number of benefits, including mass reduction, design freedom, waste reduction, with a wide selection of possible material. As effort...

The objective of this article is to show that project management practices present key success factors for implemented a Quality Management System (QMS) in Moroccan companies. In general, the organizations seem to look at the implementation of a quality management system as a project and they employ standard project management tools, albeit to a di...

A discrete mechanical model is used to handle the non-linear free transverse vibrations of a Conical Beam manufactured from axial functional gradient material (TAFGB) supporting spot masses at several locations. The beam is modelled as a system with N degrees of freedom (N-Dof), including N masses, N+1 bars and N+2 spiral spring. The details of the...

A discrete model is applied to handle the geometrically nonlinear free and forced vibrations of beams consisting of several different segments whose mechanical characteristics vary in the length direction and contain multiple point masses located at different positions. The beam is presented by an N degree of freedom system (N-Dof). An approach bas...

The vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) design has several advantages for offshore wind turbine installation. The VAWT provides omnidirectional wind power, and its mechanical rotating mechanisms can be installed near sea level. In this paper, the selection of a suitable composite material for floating H-Darrieus-type wind turbines with three-stage ro...

Spring back is one of the most common problems in the sheet metal forming operation now a day (for example stamping, hydroforming, bending, etc.) [1]. The Spring back is a geometric phenomenon that affects accuracy by changing the geometric shape. The most prominent feature of sheet metal forming process is an elastic recovery phenomenon during unl...

Layer by layer is how AM reaches every range of industries, its employability has greatly evolved from a prototyping stage to an alternative for conventional fabrication. FDM, a versatile AM technique that gains presence in the automotive field for polymeric materials. Within this revolution where the Design phase is of paramount importance, the Df...

A new discrete N-DOF (degree of freedom) model is utilized for the first time to analyses free vibrations of tapered beams with multiple transverse cracks resting on elastic Winkler foundations. The description of the mechanical system considered is detailed. After construction of the new mass and rigidity tensors, including the crack and the Winkl...

This paper presents the development of a conceptual model to evaluate the impact of the improvement of the hospital supply chain on the cancer patient psychological state within the oncology department of the IBN ROCHD University Hospital (UH) in Casablanca. Through an empirical study using a survey submitted to a sample of 100 users of this depart...

A discrete physical model based on modal analysis theory is used for the first time to investigate the linear free vibration of tapered Euler-Bernoulli beams constructed of axial functional gradient (AFG) materials and carrying masses concentrated at different locations, applied for CC, CF and SS end conditions. The considered beam will be modeled...

Airports are essential for intercontinental trade and a key to the success of the global aviation industry. The common objective of all stakeholders in the airport chain is to satisfy the passenger while facing a significant number of challenges, including the continued growth of air traffic and its influence on airport capacity, the problem of con...

This article aims to study and measure the possible interrelationships between quality practices and the corporate social responsibility (CSR) companies' actions by examining the mediating role of overall performance of the industrial young enterprises installed in the Province of Tetouan, Morocco, based on investigations conducted through a questi...

Background: Short lead time in colorectal cancer treatment is important to improve patient outcomes. This study aimed to explore factors associated with longer lead times between the first consultation and the therapeutic decision, and between the first consultation and the treatment initiation. Results: 83 patients were included in the quantitativ...

The purpose of this article is to present a statistical approach using latent and manifest variables applied to measure the Quality management system performance of a multinational energy company located in Casablanca, Kingdom of Morocco. The principal idea is to measure the impact of quality practices (which are divided into five segments: leaders...

This article aims to present a statistical approach involving latent and manifest variables applied in order to measure the organization’s social responsibility performance of a worldwide enterprise (electrical sector) located in Casablanca, Kingdom of Morocco. The main idea is to measure the impact of Social Responsibility’s practices (which are d...

Project management becomes a key instrument and a strategic factor impacting all types of enterprises including the SMEs. Small to Medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are a very important component of the economy. They contribute strongly in all the industries all over the world. They are considered as the engine for future growth in the economy. Appli...

The health system is a fundamental building block of a country's social project. Approaches and strategies differ but some concepts such as Patient Centred Care (PCC) seem to be more and more popular nowadays as the customer centric advocated in the industry. The research has focused on this trend of PCC with several different definitions but witho...

Abstract: This article aims to measure the impact of quality practices on the overall performance of the young manufacturing enterprises located in the Province of Tangier (Morocco). Based on an empirical study via questionnaires administered to the owner-managers and using structural modelling with latent variable via the Xl-Stat software (2015 Ve...

Companies adopt strategies to assert their competitive advantage and meet the demands and expectations of their various stakeholders. It is recognized that Supply Chain Management plays an essential role in establishing this competitiveness and more particularly when information and communication technologies are implemented. We aim to explore how...

In the last decade, several countries started work on the development of Floating Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, which have significant advantages over Floating Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines. In the present work, we expose a brief history of the use of this type of wind turbines, and we contribute to understanding the existing technologies and we als...

Growing energy demand is causing a significant decrease in the world’s hydrocarbon stock in addition to the pollution of our ecosystem. Based on this observation, the search for alternative sorts of energy to fossil fuels is being increasingly explored and exploited. Wind energy is experiencing a very important development, and it offers a very pro...

Managers are now faced with a weakening of employees' involvement due to the difficulty to comply and adhere to the new visions generated by the various socioeconomic changes. Our publication aims to identify and analyze the motives that enable employees to get involved in their work. More specifically, it will explore and identify the main factors...

The purpose of the research is to present a statistical approach using latent and manifest variables applied to measure the occupational health and safety performance of a worldwide enterprise (energy sector) located in Casablanca, Kingdom of Morocco. The principal idea is to measure the impact of occupational health and safety practices OHS (which...

The rapid evolution of technologies, usages and needs, makes it hard to predict the evolution of the market. The combination of demographic and economic balance (India and China), the ecological evolutions, competition, standardization, technological and sociocultural evolutions linked to organizational uncertainties, create an atmosphere of discom...

The current business environment is constantly changing because of globalization, market opening and continuous technological progress. In this environment, businesses are prompted to mobilize their reflective capacities and their material and immaterial resources in order to ensure sustainable and viable development. The need to reduce costs and d...

The Industrial Revolution has profoundly changed our society. The multiple technological leaps, the increasingly fierce competition and the changing markets witnessed more than a century now are disrupting the industrial environment. Faced with these constraints, the manager has a set of concepts, approaches and tools at his disposal to ensure the...

In a structure, performance measures the adequacy between the strategic objectives initially defined and the results actually achieved. It also constitutes the level of appreciation of the structure's strategy since it takes into account the resources mobilized to achieve the strategic objectives. The performance management system must be oriented...

This article aims to present a statistical approach involving latent and manifest variables applied in order to measure the organization’s social responsibility performance of a worldwide enterprise (electrical sector) located in Casablanca, Kingdom of Morocco. The main idea is to measure the impact of Social Responsibility’s practices (which are d...

The present paper is concerned with a statistical approach involving latent and manifest variables applied in order to assess the Environmental Management System performance. The main idea is to develop an assessment tool in order to measure the Environmental Management System practices performances (which are divided into seven segments: Context o...

PLS approach to measure the contribution of the improvement of hospital supply chain on the improvement of psychological state of patients and the reduction of global lead time of treatment, case of the IBN ROCHD UH oncology department. Abstract Our research work aims to improve the lead time and conditions of cancer patient's treatment. The proble...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a picture of the maintenance management status in a sample of Moroccan industries through highlighting the most impacting factors. A preliminary framework of a maintenance management model is proposed on the basis of the study findings. Design/methodology/approach A mixed methods research (MMR), incl...

Wind energy is experiencing a very important development and it is very profitable exploitation because the wind is always available and inexhaustible. In Morocco, enormous wind deposits exist, in the south as well as in the north, it is an essential energy resource. Several technical solutions exist to exploit wind energy, like Floating Vertical A...

This paper presents a conceptual model using modelling by structural equations to see to what extent improving the hospital supply chain in the oncology department can reduce waiting times and improve the psychological state of cancer patients, as well as reduce treatment delay for these patients. The objective of this work will enable decision-mak...

— Notre communication vise à mesurer les impacts des pratiques de la qualité (résumées en cinq pratiques ( : Leadership, Stratégie & Planification, Ressources Humaines, Partenariats & Ressources et Management des Processus) sur la performance globale (résumée en quatre axes : Axe Client, Axe Financier, Axe Processus Interne, Axe Innovation & Appren...

Nowadays, hospital logistics has become an essential component of healthcare institutions. It allows the synchronisation of all the flows inside a hospital to ensure the efficiency of the healthcare system, and particularly in the case of cancerous diseases. This paper presents a synthesis of the research carried out since 1992 on hospital logistic...

Project management is an economical factor impacting all types of enterprises including the SMEs. SMEs are very important component of the international economy. Statistics over the world show that the SMEs are predominant in the global market, representing more than 90% of all the companies in a set of countries. This paper has the aim of identify...

Quality demarche or Quality management System establishment is considered, in majority of business, a collective project with a wide wingspan, in order to help the managers to maintain their differentiation and their evolution, and let them ensure their business sustainability. This project requires mainly the board commitment, all staff involvemen...

The Moroccan companies, regardless of their size, want to exist and survive, to be developed and diversified, and to ensure that they are profitable, to preserve their independence and to let their human capital reached their aims. To realize and reach their hopes, in a contemporary environment, influenced by a rough competition, technological evol...

Le Centre National d’Etudes et de Recherche sur l’Eau et l’Energie (CNEREE) relevant de l’université Cadi Ayyad organise la troisième édition de la Journée des Doctorants du CNEREE (JDC2018) autour du thème : «Recherche & Innovation: Quelles solutions durables pour notre région ?» le 27 Juin 2018. JDC’2018 rentre dans le cadre du plan d’action 201...

Maintenance management is, and has been studied in depth, especially for strategies to be implemented in industry, even though, authors note that there is a gap between literature and management adopted by industries. In this paper, we present a qualitative study in five Moroccan industries to investigate "how maintenance is managed" rather than "h...

L’objectif de cet article est de proposer les principaux facteurs d’attractivité des investisseurs étrangers dans les secteurs manufacturiers et logistiques de la ville de Tanger au Maroc. Notre modèle conceptuel a été élaboré à partir d’une revue de littérature et d’entretiens avec un échantillon de dirigeants des petites et moyennes entreprises (...

The purpose of this paper is to present the maintenance management status in Moroccan companies.The first part is based on the literature; it reviews the main maintenance models. The second part is resulted from a pilot survey about management maintenance in Moroccan companies.The study was performed by conducting a survey within 15 Moroccan compan...

This study aims to measure the links between quality practices and Corporate Social Responsibility of the manufacturing companies located in the Gueznnaya industrial area and Tangier free zone, based on investigations through a questionnaire. The latter was addressed to the owner-managers of such companies. 42 questionnaires were fully analyzed. Th...

Globalization keeps triggering business processes of delocalization and (re)localization around the world in looking for the most attractive regions (zones). In order to be attractive, a territory should attract, absorb and maintain businesses. The ability to attract businesses also entails the ability to respond quickly to threats and opportunitie...

Research on the growth and the development of young companies in general, and their performance in particular, attracts the interest of many researchers and many research works have been undertaken and published on the matter. However, the results obtained up to now are not up to the efforts made or the results awaited.(…). In this article, we are...

This article aims to study the possible causal interrelationships existing between quality practices and growth factors of young manufacturing enterprises in growth phase located in the Wilaya of Tetouan, based on an investigation through a questionnaire administered to the owner-managers of this type of enterprises. 122 questionnaires have been ex...

La mondialisation continue à enclencher une vague de délocalisation et localisation des entreprises dans le monde en recherchant les régions les plus attractives. Pour que le territoire soit attractif, il doit attirer, absorber et préserver les entreprises. La capacité d'attirer les entreprises indique aussi l'aptitude à réagir rapidement aux dange...

Cet article vise à mesurer les liens existants entre les pratiques de la qualité et les opportunités de croissance, ainsi développées par Kaplan et Norton dans leur tableau de bord prospectif : clients, processus internes et apprentissage organisationnel & innovation (mesures non financières) des jeunes entreprises manufacturières en phase de crois...

Given the high barriers to enter the aerospace industry, developing countries tend to use the needs of aerospace manufacturer leaders for a competitive cost as main attracting factor. The objective of this study is to investigate the attracting factors of Moroccan regions and country policy measures toward the aerospace sector. A survey applied to...

Global economy is undergoing a recession phase that had made competition tougher and imposed new business framework. Developing countries, as less impacted by the international economic crisis, should prepare their businesses to take advantages from the raising development opportunities. They have to shift from the classical management approaches t...

Developing countries, as less impacted by the international economic crisis, should prepare their businesses to take advantages from the raising development opportunities. They have to shift from the classical management approaches to an Intelligent Project Based Organization Model (IPBOM) that provides flexibility and agility. An opportunity analy...

Supply chains are characterized by many activities and actors that generally pursue conflicting objectives. Coordination between them may be then necessary to align the individual objectives with the global supply chain objective and achieve optimal performance. In this paper, we propose a model that aims to assess the relative performance of three...

The aim of this paper is to determine, on the one hand, the intensity of the electric energy and the time required to ensure thermomechanical forming of CuNiTi and TMA archwires and, on the other, their impact on the elasticity modulus. .017×.025” CuNiTi and TMA archwires were bent in the horizontal plane without exceeding their elastic limit. In o...

Les effets de bords dans les composites stratifiés ont été analysés avec une considération particulière de la singularité de contrainte. Deux approches très pratiques ont été proposées pour l'analyse de la singularité. La première approche utilise le raffinement de maillage et la méthode des moindres carrés, et la seconde est basée sur une analyse...

Assuming the existence of a singularity in the stress distribution at a hole in a composite plate, the numerical determination of the strength of such a singularity using the finite element method with mesh refinement is reported. A finite element program using 20-node quadratic solid isoparametric elements was written to investigate the stresses i...

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