Consider a mass customizer who produces multiple variants of a product in make-to-order fashion, and who also produces some standard variants as make-to-stock. We evaluate pricing and production issues from a joint marketing and operations perspective. Marketing determines prices while operations chooses between three production strategies as it sets capacity. A key result is that under the log...

This paper investigates the simulation of a hybrid desalination system composed of multi-effect evaporation with thermal vapour compression desalination (METVC) and reverse osmosis (RO) plant. The hybrid desalination system is also integrated with a gas turbine power plant through a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG). First, a comprehensive Thermodynamic model for HRSG, METVC, and RO are deve...

Different methods of urban sewage sludge energy recovery such as burning, gasification, pyrolysis and digestion based on the net energy production efficiency, advantages and disadvantages and complexity of these processes have been investigated in this article. The best method for energy production from sludge was selected among different methods according to energy and the amount of the greenh...

plants cover composition, condition, trend, production, and grazing capacity of the rangeland change annually. in this research, the role of temporal rainfall distribution on rangeland production was assessed. this research had down in the rangelands of ilam (with semiarid to semi humid climate) and qom and markazi (with arid to semiarid climate) provinces. by attention on plant cover maps in e...

borage herbs, wild herbs and is one year with significant economic value are highly regarded local market due to the high economic value of borage any study to improve the quality of harvest and increase product seems necessary, two rahim abad (gilan) district in the province eshkourat the highest level of production as the location of choice, and studies of the factors in determining the best ...

Cost reduction is one of the methods applied for improving the productivity of organizations. In productivity literature, particularly in nonparametric methods, cost reduction related methods are regarded as input oriented models. This paper presents a Supply Chain Management (SCM) model in which purchasing iron ore and coke from different resources, along with production and distribution of st...