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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"Capacity planning"”.
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Optimal Pricing and Capacity Planning in Operations Management
Pricing and capacity allocation are two important decisions that a service provider needs to make to maximize service quality and profit. This thesis attempts to address the pricing and capacity planning problems in operations management from the following three aspects. We first study a capacity …
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Real options approach to capacity planning under uncertainty
… effectiveness of Real Options Analysis (ROA) in capacity planning decisions for engineering projects subject to uncertainty. This is in contrast to the irreversible decision-making proposed by the deterministic strategies based on expected estimates of parameters drawn years in advance. …
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Data analysis and simulation approach to capacity planning
… These actions placed a priority on improving the capacity to provide mental health care. This thesis examines ways of improving the capacity of the mental health system with a focus on system redesign. I review capacity planning, provide a literature review of simulation methods and present a …
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UTILIZATION OF MONTE CARLO SIMULATION IN GENERATING CAPACITY PLANNING
… probabilities of failure. The generating capacity models which were developed are then combined with the load model to produce generating capacity adequacy indices. These models provide a method of analysis which relaxes many of the traditional assumptions incorporated in the analytical …
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Capacity planning under demand and manufacturing uncertainty for biologics
… pharmaceutical companies use long range planning to plan their production for the next 10 years. Capacity planning is largely driven by the long-term demand and its forecast uncertainty. The impact of uncertainties at manufacturing level, such as factory productivity and production …
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Predictive capacity planning modeling with tactical and strategic applications
… internship was the development of a predictive capacity planning model to characterize the storage requirements and space utilization for Amazon's Campbellsville (SDF) Fulfillment Center (FC). Amazon currently has a functional model that serves the purpose of capacity planning, but they were …
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An approach to strategic capacity planning using information visualization
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2002.
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Strategic capacity planning using data science, optimization, and machine learning
… the ability to continuously analyze factory capacity and strategically plan for future operations much needed. This study seeks to develop a sustainable strategic capacity optimization model and capacity visualization tool that integrates demand data with historical manufacturing data. …
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Capacity planning and change management in an aerospace overhaul cell
… techniques. The thesis focuses on use of a labor capacity planning model, implementation of a new cell layout, and queuing theory. The project was 6.5 months long, running from June through December of 2012. Findings - In Chapter 4, the capacity planning model shows that demand changes …
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Development of operations based long range network capacity planning models
Planning for vaccines manufacturing capacity is both a complex task requiring many inputs and an important function of manufacturers to ensure the supply of vaccines that prevent life-threatening illnesses. This thesis explores the development of an operations based long range capacity planning …
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Capacity planning and admission control policies for intensive care units
… significant challenges from the standpoint of capacity planning and management in ICUs. This thesis reports on the development of a simulation framework to study admission control polices that aim to decrease the rejection rate in the ICU at Children's Hospital Boston (CHB), and to provide …
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Demand Modeling And Capacity Planning For Innovative Short Life-Cycle Products
… dissertation focuses on demand modeling and capacity planning for innovative short life-cycle products. We first developed a new model in the class of stochastic Bass formulations that addresses the shortcomings of models from the extant literature. The proposed model considers the common …
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Essays on supply chain analytics: Investment and capacity planning under uncertainty
… dissertation, we study a firm’s investment and capacity planning strategies in the presence of different types of supply uncertainties and risks. Both essays in this dissertation benefit from empirical analysis as the analytical models build on the findings and observations from the …
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Capacity planning in a general supply chain with multiple contract types
In this thesis, we study capacity planning in a general supply chain that contains multiple products, processes, and resources. We consider situations with demand uncertainty, outsourcing contracts, and option contracts. We develop efficient and practical algorithms to address the following three …
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Investigating convergence of a capacity planning model using Generalized Benders's Decomposition
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1980
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The impact of machine and cell design on volume flexibility and capacity planning
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1997.
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A capacity planning methodology for rural India : an application to grid-connected photovoltaics
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Next generation commercial aircraft engine maintenance, repair, and overhaul capacity planning and gap analysis
… forecasted shop visit demand to network-wide capacity is essential to ensuring the required resources are in place to quickly repair and return these assets to the airline customer. A capacity analysis methodology is developed to characterize and analyze the current network capacity for the …
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A deterministic concurrent product, production, and capacity planning model for design, manufacture, and support
… concurrently determines product, production, and capacity can provide better results than a model that makes these decisions sequentially. Three versions of a life-cycle complete concurrent model and corresponding sequential model that solve product, production, and capacity planning problems are …
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