Cooperative Extension strives to provide agricultural producers with non-formal educational opportunities designed positively impact agriculture (NIFA, 2021). Therefore, a team of professionals at the University Nebraska – Lincoln developed and facilitate an ongoing professional development program enhance engagement in farm management, especially areas input use efficiency profitability. Andra...

Perishability of blood products as well as uncertainty in demand amounts complicate the management of blood supply for blood centers. This paper addresses a mixed-integer linear programming model for blood platelets production planning while integrating the processes of blood collection as well as production/testing, inventory control and distribution. Whole blood-derived production methods for...

Adaptive production systems are defined and used to illustrate adaptive techniques in production system construction. A learning paradigm is described within the framework of adaptive production systems, and is applied to a simple rote learning task, a nonsense syllable association and discrimination task, and a serial pattern acquisition task. It is shown that with the appropriate production b...

In order to achieve a competitive edge in the market, one of most essential components effective operations management is aggregate production planning, abbreviated as APP. The sources uncertainty discussed APP model include demand, costs, and storage costs. problem usually involves many imprecise, conflicting incommensurable objective functions. application real conditions often inaccurate, be...