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Capacity: the measure of the capability of a workstation or a plant to produce output. Capacity measures can focus on a variety of factors, which typically...; Capacity definition on BNET »

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Digitizing Deal Management for Greater Control and Increased capacity: The client is one of the nation's largest diversified financial services organizations providing community, corporate and wholesale banking; wealth and asset management. The challenge was to reduce the deal cycle time of commercial loans while maintaining appropriate levels of compliance and risk management. The company offered the client a deal...; Tags: Process improvement, BearingPoint Inc., workflow, asset management, risk management, banking, compliance, asset, financial; Case studies
Repowering Is a Cost-Effective Option for Retired Coal-Fired capacity: There is now a major economic incentive for utilities owning retired coal fired capacity to consider conversions to natural gas and or oil. The older, smaller, high heat rate coal- fired units were retired because it was not practical five years ago to invest the capital required to bring these...; Tags: coal, natural gas, incentive; White papers
Where Has All the Reinsurance capacity Gone?: In 1995, there were 18 companies that had at least 2% market share of reinsurance capacity. However, in 2004 only seven of these companies still provide capacity; the others have been sold, exited the market entirely or simply ceased writing new business. In several instances, these decisions were made by...; Tags: Insurance, Transamerica Corp., reinsurance; White papers
Backhoe Lift capacity: The lift capacity of a backhoe is one of the other specifications that need to check for a productive backhoe loader. Lift capacity is one of the things that need to be considered in conjunction with backhoes overall balance and weight. Many equipments and machines that are available that can...; Tags: Capacity, Machine; White papers
Backhoes Considerations: There are things that need to be remembered as a contractor when one needs to use backhoes, such as, backhoe lift capacity. Basically, he needs to make sure that the width of the loader bucket and the bucket carrying capacities need to be matched with the backhoe. Most contractors would...; Tags: Contractor, Capacity; White papers

Last Century's Structure Retrofitted for the Next: McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, nearly lost one of its architectural landmarks. Lady Meredith House, one of the area's many turn-of-the-century buildings, was gutted by arsonists' fire. Since the building had a combination of high ceilings, drop beams and very limited service shafts, the traditional method of running ductwork from...; Tags: WaterFurnace International; Case studies
Awoonga Dam Project: The Awoonga Dam raising and infrastructure project is located outside Gladstone in the Boyne Valley, Central Queensland. This $106 million project will increase the capacity of the dam to 800,000 mega liters from its existing capacity of 283,000 megalitres. The dam supplies the Gladstone area with both domestic drinking water...; Tags: Smorgon Steel Group, dam, industry; Case studies
Implications Of Renegotiation For Optimal Contract Flexibility And Investment: In a stylized model of biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing, this paper shows how the potential for renegotiation influences the optimal structure of supply contracts, investments in innovation and capacity, the way scarce capacity is allocated, and firms' resulting profits. Two buyers contract for capacity with a common manufacturer. Then the buyers...; Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Stanford University, innovation, investment, manufacturer, product development, manufacturing, marketing; White papers 2007-02-07
Integrated Workforce capacity And Inventory Management Under Temporary Labor Supply Uncertainty: In a manufacturing environment with volatile demand, inventory management can be coupled with dynamic capacity adjustments for handling the fluctuations more effectively. This paper considers the problem of integrated capacity and inventory management under non-stationary stochastic demand and flexible capacity uncertainty. The capacity planning problem is investigated from the workforce...; Tags: University of Pennsylvania, Inventory Management, workforce, agency, worker; White papers 2007-01-15
Integrated capacity And Inventory Management With capacity Acquisition Lead Times: In this paper we consider a make-to-stock production system whose permanent production capacity can be increased temporarily by making use of some contingent resources, while this capacity acquisition has a constant lead time associated with it. We present a model where the capacity management problem is handled in an integrated...; Tags: Inventory Management, acquisition; White papers 2006-06-01
More Bargaining Room for D&O Insurance: After years of nightmarish increases, the price of Directors and Officers (D&O) insurance softened in the third quarter of 2004 and continued to drift down through the fourth quarter. Premiums stabilized this year and may head up again in 2006. But in the meantime, CFOs have an opportunity to field...; Tags: Penton Media Inc., D&O, insurance; White papers 2005-12-01
Building on Progress: Strengthening Compliance and Enhancing capacity: A Report of the Working Group of the Vice Ministers Responsible for Trade and Labor in the Countries of Central America and the Dominican Republic. This report papers identifies six key areas of focus for actions to improve workers? rights, enhance capacity and promote a broader culture of compliance with...; Tags: Inter-American Development Bank, labor standards, compliance, worker; White papers 2005-04-01
capacity of State and Territorial Health Agencies to Prevent Food borne Illness: The capacity of state and territorial health departments to investigate food-borne diseases was assessed by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists from 2001 to 2002 with a self-administered, Web-based survey. The results points out that sixty-four percent of respondents have the capacity to conduct analytic epidemiologic investigations. This report...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, health care, food, Web; White papers 2005-01-01
Determination of Heat Capacities and Thermodynamic Properties of 2-(Chloromethylthio) benzothiazole by an Adiabatic Calorimeter: Adiabatic calorimetry at low temperature is the classical method for heat capacity measurement, from which many other thermodynamic properties such as enthalpy, entropy, and Gibbs free energy can be calculated. These data are of significance in theoretical study, application development, and industrial production of a compound. In the present paper,...; Tags: American Chemical Society, application development; White papers 2004-12-08
The Economic Future of Nuclear Power: This paper considers potential supply and demand shocks from environmental, national security, and other risks affecting choices among electricity generation technologies. Maintaining some nuclear capacity now could avoid a costly and lengthy adjustment of gearing up a nuclear industry that might otherwise be in a run-down condition. This paper uses...; Tags: U.S. Department of Energy, nuclear energy, adjustment, decision-making, industry; White papers 2004-08-01
Understanding Absorptive Capacities In An "Innovation Systems" Context: Consequences For Economic Growth: This paper seeks to broaden our understanding of the concept underlying absorptive capacity at the macro - level, paying particular attention to the growth and development perspectives. We provide definitions of absorptive and technological capacity, external technology flows, productivity growth, employment creation and their interrelations. We then analyse the elements...; Tags: Capacity, University Of Reading; White papers 2004-06-14
capacity Needs in the National Airspace System: An Analysis of Airport and Metropolitan Area Demand and Operational capacity in the Future: This paper was undertaken because the Federal Aviation Administration wanted to assure that the long-term capacity of the aviation system matched forecasts of demand. It is important to look not only at individual airports in the longer term, but also at the infrastructure of the airport network to ensure sufficient...; Tags: FAA, analysis; White papers 2004-06-01
Insurance And Risk Management-II: Terrorism risks are now a common exclusion on property and liability insurance policies. Specific terrorism insurance, with respect both to physical damage and/or extortion, is available in the marketplace. Capacity is limited and pricing high (although dropping); extortion coverage is quite cheap. The article briefs on various topics: Terrorism Insurance,...; Tags: Corporate insurance, Financial Planning, terrorism insurance, liability insurance, insurance, terrorism, pricing strategy; White papers 2003-10-01
AMS Policy Forum: Weather and Highways Policy White Paper - Improving the Safety, Efficiency and capacity of the Highway System by Improving the Use of Weather Information: The U.S. public, and more specifically its economy, is highly dependent on the national highway system. More than 200 million cars and trucks use the national highway system and critical parts function at or near their maximum capacity much of the time. Weather reduces capacity and significantly impacts efficiency. Weather...; Tags: Weather, Capacity; White papers 2003-09-09
Regional Models for Portfolio Diversification: This research is an extension of earlier efforts to develop geographic diversification strategies based upon economic factors, particularly employment-related measures. A much broader set of measures is used to search for broad macroeconomic cycles. Seven groups of states, labeled ''Capacity Clusters'' due to the emphasis on economic and development capacity,...; Tags: Capacity, Measure, Benefits, Strategy, Human Resources, Management; White papers 2003-06-20