Abstract It is essential for manufacturers to consider the interrelation among quality, inventory, and maintenance decisions detect imperfect quality products, keep production system in good operating condition, manage inventory costs. Hence, this paper aims develop an integrated model of planning, engineering, scheduling which expected total cost per time unit minimised by determining sample s...

The article is centred on software system development for manufacturing company that produces polyethylene bags using mostly conventional machines in a competitive world where each business enterprise desires to stand tall. This is meant to assist in gaining market shares, taking maintenance and production decisions by the dynamism and flexibilities embedded in the package as customers’ demand ...

1 The first section of a three-part article on Compstat, an information-driven managerial process, examines four crime-reduction principles that form the basis of the technique. Agencies must ensure that they are prepared to handle situations involving officers in crisis. 26 Eight Supreme Court decisions of particular importance to law enforcement are summarized. Contributors' opinions and stat...

Although Medicaid is regarded as a federal entitlement program, nowhere does the Medicaid statute explicitly recognize a federal right of action to enforce recipients' rights. Arguably, the Supreme Court, rather than Congress, first recognized the right of Medicaid recipients to protection of federal law. A controversial 2001 federal court decision, however, called into question the continuing ...

Using a pooled data set consisting of 20 annual observations on each of eleven major industry groups, I estimate the effects of overtime pay regulation on weekly work schedules. After controlling for workweek trends within industries, the sharp expansions in overtime pay coverage resulting from legislative amendments and Supreme Court decisions produced no discernible impact on overtime hours. ...

Abstract Maintenance decision making is an important part of managing the costs, effectiveness and risk maintenance. One way to improve maintenance efficiency without affecting picture group jobs. Literature includes many examples algorithms for grouping activities. However, data not always available, with increasing plant complexity comes increasingly complex requirements, it difficult leave u...