61 research outputs found
Order Acceptance and Scheduling: A Taxonomy and Review
Over the past 20 years, the topic of order acceptance has attracted considerable attention from those who study scheduling and those who practice it. In a firm that strives to align its functions so that profit is maximized, the coordination of capacity with demand may require that business sometimes be turned away. In particular, there is a trade-off between the revenue brought in by a particular order, and all of its associated costs of processing. The present study focuses on the body of research that approaches this trade-off by considering two decisions: which orders to accept for processing, and how to schedule them. This paper presents a taxonomy and a review of this literature, catalogs its contributions and suggests opportunities for future research in this area
NASA SBIR abstracts of 1992, phase 1 projects
The objectives of 346 projects placed under contract by the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are described. These projects were selected competitively from among proposals submitted to NASA in response to the 1992 SBIR Program Solicitation. The basic document consists of edited, non-proprietary abstracts of the winning proposals submitted by small businesses. The abstracts are presented under the 15 technical topics within which Phase 1 proposals were solicited. Each project was assigned a sequential identifying number from 001 to 346, in order of its appearance in the body of the report. Appendixes to provide additional information about the SBIR program and permit cross-reference of the 1992 Phase 1 projects by company name, location by state, principal investigator, NASA Field Center responsible for management of each project, and NASA contract number are included
Aeronautical engineering: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 252)
This bibliography lists 425 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in April 1990. Subject coverage includes: design, construction and testing of aircraft and aircraft engines; aircraft components, equipment and systems; ground support systems; and theoretical and applied aspects of aerodynamics and general fluid dynamics
Aeronautical engineering: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 301)
This bibliography lists 1291 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in Feb. 1994. Subject coverage includes: design, construction and testing of aircraft and aircraft engines; aircraft components, equipment, and systems; ground support systems; and theoretical and applied aspects of aerodynamics and general fluid dynamics
Aeronautical enginnering: A cumulative index to a continuing bibliography (supplement 312)
This is a cumulative index to the abstracts contained in NASA SP-7037 (301) through NASA SP-7073 (311) of Aeronautical Engineering: A Continuing Bibliography. NASA SP-7037 and its supplements have been compiled by the Center for AeroSpace Information of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This cumulative index includes subject, personal author, corporate source, foreign technology, contract number, report number, and accession number indexes
Aeronautical Engineering: A special bibliography with indexes, Supplement 35, September 1973
This special bibliography lists 614 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in August 1973
Aeronautical engineering: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 289)
This bibliography lists 792 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in Mar. 1993. Subject coverage includes: design, construction and testing of aircraft and aircraft engines; aircraft components, equipment, and systems; ground support systems; and theoretical and applied aspects of aerodynamics and general fluid dynamics
Modeling and Management of Variation in the Operating Theatre
After having worked in the profit industry, I continued my career in 2004 as a manager of
operating rooms (ORs) in a large general teaching hospital in Rotterdam. My experiences
in industry management taught me to work efficiently, effectively and to excel in service
to every customer and prospect. With this experience in mind I started my new job on the
first of January 2004. A job in an environment filled with costly equipment and a range of
highly skilled professionals such as surgeons, residents, anesthesiologists and OR staff: a
multi-million euro business within a hospital. Last but not least, a business with customers:
patients who needed care. Prior to starting the job, I had assumed that processes were
already efficient and effective, as a result of the relatively high labor and investment costs.
Being a pilot, I fully realize what a valuable resource airspace is, particularly when subject
to high traffic demand. Since airspace is a fixed volume, as is the case with OR capacity,
managing it is a vital activity for satisfying the needs of the aircraft operators in the most
efficient and equitable manner using a sophisticated decision support system. As none of
this appeared to be the case in the OR environment, I conjectured that it must be possible
to run the OR more efficiently, effectively and in a more patient-centered way
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