With the advent of time-based competition, the speed with which new products can be developed and introduced into a market is an important managerial aspect of time-based strategy. The relationship between the allocation of decision-making power within organization and new product development (NPD) speed is investigated empirically using Chinese data. The results of correlation analysis show th...

The relation between economic growth and military resource allocations is complex. On the one hand, more rapid growth and a larger gross domestic product (GDP) increases resources available for military spending. On the other hand, larger allocations for military purposes may slow economic growth, to the extent that such allocations reduce non-military capital formation. Moreover, the scale of ...

BACKGROUND Corn oil recovery and conversion to biodiesel has been widely adopted at corn ethanol plants recently. The US EPA has projected 2.6 billion liters of biodiesel will be produced from corn oil in 2022. Corn oil biodiesel may qualify for federal renewable identification number (RIN) credits under the Renewable Fuel Standard, as well as for low greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity cre...

For firms remanufacturing their products, the total life-cycle costs and revenues from new and remanufactured products determine their profitability. In many firms, manufacturing/sales and remanufacturing/remarketing operations are carried out in different divisions. Each division is responsible for only part of the product’s life cycle. Practices regarding transfer pricing across divisions var...

Recessions appear to be times when the marginal rate of substitution between goods and workers’ time falls below the marginal product of labor. If so, the allocation of workers’ time is inefficient. I develop a model of households and production that reconciles cyclical movements in the marginal value of time and the marginal product. The model embodies the findings of research that the Frisch ...

In this paper we tackle one crucial part of the coordination problem in globally distributed software development, namely the problem of task assignment in a team. There are a number of ways to split work among the globally distributed sites. The work could be split according to the process state it is in, according to the product structure or even according to the product features. These diffe...

Given multiple products with unique lumpy demand patterns, this paper explores the determination of both the lot size for each product and the resource allocation among the products, given an investment budget for production rate improvements. Each product’s optimal production policy takes on only one of two forms: either continuous production or lot-for-lot production. A heuristic procedure de...

Imperfections due to the manufacturing process and in its resources areresponsible for the deterioration of functional characteristics and as a consequence, theproduct quality. In order to ensure a certain quality level, the tolerance synthesis tries todetermine admissible limits of workpiece and assembly characteristics. Tolerance synthesisor tolerance allocation, which belongs...

Abstract Reliability allocation is the key issue of reliability designing. CNC machine is a complex product. There are many influence factors of reliability allocation. A part of them cannot be accurately measured but be evaluated by the experts. Therefore it’s difficult for reliability allocation. In this paper, we consider a variety of criteria for conducting reliability allocation. A method ...

this research presents a mathematical model for oil and gas optimal allocation to different sectors in iran using operations research techniques. sectors are residential and commercial, transportation, industries, agriculture, exports, injection to oil reservoirs and power plans as a secondary energy producer. optimal allocation of energy resources to end-uses from 2011 to 2021 has been done us...