Connor Jennings

• MS Industrial Engineering, BS Economics, and BS Industrial Engineering
• Researcher at Pennsylvania State University

Understanding interactions between components is fundamental in the design of products. Design Structure Matrices (DSMs) are often used to represent the relationships between every component or subsystem in a product. The complex network of interactions can then be clustered into subassemblies and other hierarchies, aiding designers in making criti...

The emergence of cloud computing, industrial internet of things (IIoT), and new machine learning techniques have shown the potential to advance prognostics and health management (PHM) in smart manufacturing. While model-based PHM techniques provide insight into the progression of faults in mechanical components, certain assumptions on the underlyin...

Manufacturers have faced an increasing need for the development of predictive models that help predict mechanical failures and remaining useful life of a manufacturing system or its system components. Model-based or physics-based prognostics develops mathematical models based on physical laws or probability distributions, while an in-depth physical...

Manufacturers have faced an increasing need for the development of predictive models that predict mechanical failures and the remaining useful life (RUL) of manufacturing systems or components. Classical model-based or physics-based prognostics often require an in-depth physical understanding of the system of interest to develop closed-form mathema...

With rapid innovation in the electronics industry, product obsolescence forecasting has become increasingly important. More accurate obsolescence forecasting would have cost reduction effects in product design and part procurement over a product’s lifetime. Currently many obsolescence forecasting methods require manual input or perform market analy...

As products become more electronically complex and component lifecycles are shortened due to rapidly changing technologies, obsolescence management has become a challenging problem associated with sustainable products. One of the most common strategies to manage obsolescence is to purchase enough components to sustain the product over its life in o...