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This paper deals with a realistic cyclic scheduling problem in the food industry environment in which parallel machines are considered to process perishable jobs with given release dates, due dates and deadlines. Jobs are subject to post-production shelf life limitation and must be delivered to...
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Efficient production resettings are necessary to achieve production flexibility. For this reason, it is of primary importance to reduce the setup time required to switch the production from one product type to another, and more generally to minimise the loss of production during these resetting...
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from the «repair» in the state «after maintenance» is achieved by expenditures on repairs. Therefore, the difference … between the value of the object «after maintenance» and «repair» is equal to the present value of the costs of the proceeding … located on the segment that connects the dots «value at the end of last repair prior to the date of valuation» and «cost at …
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The article is devoted the questions of providing of effective work of the ground economy through using of new methods and technologies of implementation of walkovers for the change of structure of turnover of goodsand passenger is a turn in Ukraine
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paper contrasts the work of production with the work of repair and argues that the later is an artisanal process in tune … with the species being of humans identified by Marx. Amongst the distinctive characteristics of the work of repair are the … complex process of the work of repair that is explored in the light of theoretical perspectives from Leroi-Gourhan, Hendrick …
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This paper models and simulates a government-contractor principal-agent weapon system repair model. Insights are … derived as to how government repair contracts should be constructed so as to induce optimal contractor behavior. The paper … patterns or repair costs. …
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This paper considers a service system with bulk service and an unreliable server, generalising the work of Tadj and Choudhury [Applied Mathematics Letters, 22 (2009) 1710-1714]. While Tadj and Choudhury assume single arrivals, we allow arrivals to occur in bulk, which increases the analytical...
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Conventional economic growth actually measures throughput, not accumulated wealth, as conventional growth measurements do not take account of the short life of goods and the loss to the economy when they are discarded. This article argues that society should be seeking growth in the quality of...
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organizing it. However, the poor reputation of that sector of the building industry dealing with small scale domestic repair and … this phenomenon. It describes the results of a survey of firms operating in the domestic repair and maintenance sector of …
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