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This digital document is an article from Engineer: The Professional Bulletin for Army Engineers, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 930 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: On top of the world: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers supports an arctic mission.
Author: JoAnne Castagna
Publication: Engineer: The Professional Bulletin for Army Engineers (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 35Page: 15(2)

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This digital document is an article from Engineering Economist, published by Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE) on January 1, 1998. The length of the article is 4724 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: We investigated the strategic and economic importance of the cost of quality (COQ) in a firm whose production process is continuous. An empirical model was built to express the COQ as a function of two main components: traditional prevention-appraisal-failure expenses (PAF model) and opportunity losses. Opportunity losses were broken down into three components: underutilization of installed capacity, inadequate material handling, and poor delivery service. We conducted the six-month study in a company along the U.S.-Mexican border. Results show that the COQ expressed as revenue loss is mainly explained by the opportunity component. Also, the COQ expressed as profit not earned is explained by the opportunity variable but in a smaller proportion. Each variable was analyzed and specific recommendations were provided.

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Title: Using opportunity costs to determine the cost of quality: a case study in a continuous-process industry.
Author: Diego A. Sandoval-Chavez
Publication: Engineering Economist (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1998
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE)
Volume: v43Issue: n2Page: p107(18)

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This digital document is an article from IIE Transactions, published by Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE) on August 1, 1995. The length of the article is 6895 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: This paper presents an evaluation of four different sequential approaches to solving the one-dimensional cutting-stock problem in an industrial setting where trim loss and pattern changes costs are of importance. The evaluation is made with sample problems generated from data of a manufacturing company as well as with real problems. Triangular distributions, which are representative of many practical environments, are introduced as proxies to the distribution of the lengths required. Conclusions are drawn based on the various problem sizes and distributions tested.

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Title: Solving a one-dimensional cutting-stock problem in a small manufacturing firm: a case study.
Author: Pierre Lefrancois
Publication: IIE Transactions (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 1995
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE)
Volume: v27Issue: n4Page: p483(14)

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This digital document is an article from Engineering Economist, published by Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE) on January 1, 1993. The length of the article is 7034 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: This paper presents a case study of an economic justification of an expert system in a large mainten A simulation model was developed to study the failure modes and operating characteristics of the mai and the potential impact of installing an expert system. The simulation results are used as inputs t process. The justification approach combines conventional economic analysis with multiattribute util measures. It was found that overall maintenance cost after an expert system installation was much lo cost without expert system installation. Thus, the proposed expert system was economically justified

From the supplier: A case study on the economic justification of an expert system in an underground coal mine is presented. The expert system is designed to help maintenance personnel involved in equipment troubleshooting operations, specifically on the mine's continuous miner equipment. Standard multiattribute utility analysis combined with conventional economic measures is the approach used in the study. Results indicate that the expert system's potential practicality and cost effectiveness.

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Title: A case study of economic justification of expert systems in maintenance operations.
Author: Adedeji B. Badiru
Publication: Engineering Economist (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1993
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE)
Volume: v38Issue: n2Page: p99(19)

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This digital document is an article from IIE Transactions, published by Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE) on September 1, 1998. The length of the article is 816 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Metrics and Case Studies for Evaluating Engineering Designs.(Review)
Author: James T. Luxhoj
Publication: IIE Transactions (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1998
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE)
Volume: 30Issue: 9Page: 862(2)

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This digital document is an article from Engineering Economist, published by Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE) on January 1, 1992. The length of the article is 4139 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The capital asset pricing model in project selection: a case study.
Author: Arshad M. Khan
Publication: Engineering Economist (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1992
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE)
Volume: v37Issue: n2Page: p145(16)

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This digital document is an article from Engineering Economist, published by Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE) on July 1, 2010. The length of the article is 8083 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Reference class forecasting (RCF) is increasingly being adopted to mitigate two main factors causing persistent cost overruns in infrastructure projects--optimism bias and strategic misrepresentation. In practice, organizations tend to tailor generic estimating approaches to their unique operating environments by developing hybrid approaches blending RCF with other approaches such as the conventional fixed contingency approach. Yet, little empirical evidence exists on the accuracy of RCF or its variations. This study presents the results of estimation accuracy of a sample of road projects conducted by an Australian State Road & Traffic Authority using a hybrid estimating approach blending primarily RCF with fixed contingency approach. The results are then compared with historical results from literature on infrastructure projects and samples of two other dominant estimation methods, namely, the conventional fixed contingency approach and risk-based estimating (RBE). This study finds that the average accuracy of this sample using the hybrid approach compares favorably to historical results, which typically use the fixed contingency approach.

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Title: The accuracy of hybrid estimating approaches: a case study of an Australian state road & traffic authority.
Author: Li Liu
Publication: Engineering Economist (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2010
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE)
Volume: 55Issue: 3Page: 225(21)

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This digital document is an article from Engineering Economist, published by Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE) on July 1, 2010. The length of the article is 8116 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: This article applies Taylor kriging (TK) to cost estimation. The partial differentiation equation of TK is developed and used to assist in sensitivity analysis on cost factors. The capabilities of cost estimation and sensitivity analysis of TK are compared with those of regression and an artificial neural network (ANN) through application in a case study. The results show that TK can provide more accurate cost estimates than those of regression but worse than those of ANN, and both TK and regression are able to effectively find sensitive cost factors.

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Title: Cost estimation and sensitivity analysis on cost factors: a case study on Taylor Kriging, regression and artificial neural networks.
Author: Heping Liu
Publication: Engineering Economist (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2010
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE)
Volume: 55Issue: 3Page: 201(24)

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This digital document is an article from ASHRAE Transactions, published by American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. on January 1, 2009. The length of the article is 8454 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: This paper is the first of two papers which reports the research findings of an ASHRAE-funded project that assessed the impact in energy reduction and cost savings of optimal versus near-optimal operation of building combined heat and power (BCHP) plants. The optimal operation of these plants requires more careful and sophisticated equipment scheduling and control methods compared to those in industrial combined heat and power (CHP) plants due to the large variability in thermal and electric loads as well as the equipment scheduling issue. This paper describes the methodology adopted in selecting representative building types and geographic climates; performing careful design and sizing of the BCHP systems and equipment; using a detailed simulation program to generate hourly loads throughout the year; and, finally, selecting specific days during which to evaluate the penalty associated with near-optimal control as opposed to optimal. Seven buildings have been selected: three large buildings under real-time electrical pricing (hospital, school, and hotel) and four buildings (two large and two small) under time-of-use rates. A companion paper reports on the results of the optimization study in terms of the cost penalty ratios associated with near-optimal versus optimal operation of the BCHP plants for each of the numerous specific scenarios described in this paper.

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Title: Cost penalties of near-optimal scheduling control of BCHP systems: Part I--selection of case study scenarios and data generation.(building combined heat and power systems)(Report)
Author: Itzhak Maor
Publication: ASHRAE Transactions (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2009
Publisher: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 115Issue: 1Page: 271(16)

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This digital document is an article from IIE Transactions, published by Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE) on October 1, 2001. The length of the article is 7059 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A flexible simulation tool for manufacturing-cell design, II: response surface analysis and case study.
Author: Maria De Los A. Irizarry
Publication: IIE Transactions (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2001
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE)
Volume: 33Issue: 10Page: 837

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This book is provided as a companion to the Applied Ergonomics Conference held in March 1999 in Houston, Texas. A forum for practitioners to share their successes, learn from failures and extend their network of peer practioners. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Engineering Economist, published by Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE) on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 13233 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Several studies suggest green construction can result in significant economic savings by improving employee productivity, increasing benefits from improvements in health and safety, and providing savings from energy, maintenance, and operational costs. This article quantifies these benefits by establishing a set of measurable performance and building attribute variables, collecting longitudinal data, statistically analyzing the results, and performing sensitivity analyses for a precast concrete manufacturing facility located near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Productivity, absenteeism, energy, and financial data are presented and an engineering economic analysis is reported. Results show that in the new facility manufacturing productivity increased by about 25%; statistically significant absenteeism results varied; and energy usage decreased by about 30% on a square foot basis. Considering all aspects, the economic analysis showed that the company made the correct decision to build a new green facility.

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Title: The economic benefits of green buildings: a comprehensive case study.
Author: Robert Ries
Publication: Engineering Economist (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE)
Volume: 51Issue: 3Page: 259(37)

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This digital document is an article from Engineering Economist, published by Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE) on September 22, 2000. The length of the article is 4948 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: CASE STUDY: US ARMY UTILITY HELICOPTER FLEET MODERNIZATION ANALYSIS.
Author: George C. Prueitt
Publication: Engineering Economist (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2000
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE)
Volume: 45Issue: 3Page: 271

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This digital document is an article from ASHRAE Transactions, published by American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. on July 1, 2009. The length of the article is 4242 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: This study investigates the performance of adiabatic humidification in a large-scale cleanroom with various humidification methods. Theoretical analysis and experimental results show that adiabatic humidification is feasible. The relative humidity (RH) distribution in the cleanroom was within [+ or -]1% and the time variation of RH was within [+ or -]1% also, even when humidity of make-up air varies drastically. We found that adiabatic humidification with spray nozzles using "high-pressure water atomization" method is favorable than the "two-fluids humidification" method. The effect on energy-saving of adiabatic humidification and operational/initial cost of various humidification methods are also discussed.

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Title: Humidification of large-scale cleanrooms by adiabatic humidification method in subtropical areas: an industrial case study.(Case study)
Author: Jacky Chen
Publication: ASHRAE Transactions (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2009
Publisher: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 115Issue: 2Page: 299(7)

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This digital document is an article from IIE Transactions, published by Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE) on December 1, 1996. The length of the article is 4445 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Generalized linear models are used to predict the deterioration pattern for missiles stored in four different environmental conditions. The rate of deterioration over time is assumed to be non-negative, and it is estimated from repeated measurement of the binary responses from a series of intermittent flight tests. Results of the statistical tests indicate that environmental effects are not significant on missile decay. Additionally, the estimation method for the missile shelf-life is suggested.

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Title: Statistical analysis of environmental effects on reliability decay of missiles: a case study.
Author: So Young Sohn
Publication: IIE Transactions (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1996
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE)
Volume: v28Issue: n12Page: p995(8)

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This digital document is an article from Engineering Economist, published by Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE) on March 22, 1998. The length of the article is 3706 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Case studies have long been used to supplement material in engineering economy courses. To develop these studies is difficult in that the amount of information provided to the student may either trivialize the project or complicate it beyond reason. However, with the wealth of information on the Worldwide Web, this task has become easier. A case study involving the replacement of automobiles is presented and classroom experiences are shared.

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Title: Automobile replacement case studies for engineering economy classes.
Author: Joseph C. Hartman
Publication: Engineering Economist (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1998
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE)
Volume: 43Issue: 3Page: 278(1)

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This digital document is an article from ASHRAE Journal, published by American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. on June 1, 2010. The length of the article is 2532 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Back to the future: reducing EUI in 1980s tower.(ASHRAE's BEST: TECHNOLOGY AWARD CASE STUDIES)(energy use intensity)(Case study)
Author: Caroline Paquet
Publication: ASHRAE Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2010
Publisher: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 52Issue: 6Page: 42(5)

Article Type: Case study

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