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Risk-sensitive sizing of responsive facilities
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008-04)
We develop a risk-sensitive strategic facility sizing model that makes use of readily obtainable data and addresses both capacity and responsiveness considerations. We focus on facilities whose original size cannot be ...
Managing White-Collar Work: An Operations-Oriented Survey
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2009-01)
Design and control of agile automated CONWIP production lines
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2009-02)
In this article, we study the design and control of manufacturing cells with a mix of manual and automated equipment, operating under a CONWIP pull protocol, and staffed by a single agile (cross-trained) worker. For a ...
Medical Management and Rehabilitation in the Workplace: Emerging Issues
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-03)
Ideal spatial radiotherapy dose distributions subject to positional uncertainties
(IOP Publishing Ltd, 2006-12-21)
In radiotherapy a common method used to compensate for patient setup error and organ motion is to enlarge the clinical target volume (CTV) by a ‘margin’ to produce a ‘planning target volume’ (PTV). Using weighted power ...
Expected move request waiting times in single-device, polling-based material handling systems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-01)
We present an analytical approach to approximate the expected waiting times of move requests (customers) served by a single handling device (server) that operates according to the First-Encountered-First-Served (FEFS) rule, ...
Development of surrogate child restraints for testing occupant sensing and classification systems
(SAE, 2004)
This paper describes the design and development of a family of surrogate child restraints that are intended for
use in developing and testing occupant sensing and classification systems. Detailed measurements were made ...
Integrating 3D non-contact measurement in the die tryout business process
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Transportation Research Institute, 2008-05)
Based on two surveys of manufacturers, this report summarizes several automotive body die tryout buyoff criteria, rework processes, and 3D non-contact measurement strategies. Relative to historical die tryout performance ...
Improving die rework capability: Opportunities for using 3D non-contact measurement technology to reduce die tryout iterations to resolve dimensional issues
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Transportation Research Institute, 2008-05)
This report summarizes automotive body die tryout performance, based on a survey of and interviews with die manufacturing experts from automotive body manufacturers and die
suppliers, The report explores opportunities for ...