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- American Water Heater Company: Compressed Air System Optimization Project Saves Energy and Improves Production at Water Heater Plant
- Located in Johnson City, Tennessee, AWHC is a leading manufacturer of high-quality residential and commercial water heaters. The plant's compressed air system is served by four 350-hp and one 250-hp lubricated rotary screw compressors that total 1,650 hp. In early 2000, plant personnel commissioned a U.S. Department of Energy Allied...
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- Optimization of a Global Energy Major's Processes
- The client is a global energy major that needs to harmonize and leverage on the multiple IT divisions of the acquired companies. The client's requirement was an efficient translation of this process knowledge into proper process maps was a very critical challenge and business processes needed to comply with regulations...
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- $100 Million Revenue Increase From Technology Transfer Optimization
- A multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical company wanted to maximize new product revenues and optimize product costs. It found that a set of significant technology transfer problems stood in the way of attaining this goal. The company asked PRTM to optimize the technology development and transfer process for introducing new products into...
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- SOX Optimization: Improving Compliance Efficiency & Effectiveness
- This paper addresses the dilemma of how to improve controls while simultaneously reducing unnecessary costs - without jeopardizing compliance. The publication outlines Deloitte & Touche LLP's method for optimizing SOX efforts through a continuous top-down, risk-based approach to analyzing and prioritizing controls.
- White papers 2007-09-09
- Resource Planning And Optimization For Broadcasters And Their Production Companies
- The media industry is undergoing radical and rapid change driven by liberalization, privatization, and digitization. New networks and new distribution models emerge, transforming the broadcasting landscape from an environment that used to be highly regulated to one that is truly dynamic and competitive. This change brings immense challenges, but also...
- White papers 2006-09-06
- Information Technology Portfolio Management (ITPM): SOX Compliance Through IT Rationalization and Optimization
- While the financial services sector is accustomed to being heavily regulated, the last few years have brought about increasingly detailed reporting requirements and invasive audits, especially with the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 SOX. The transparency and accountability requirements under SOX extend to IT functions, including the penalties...
- White papers 2005-12-12
- Channel Optimization: Are You Giving The Channel Too Much?
- Given the squeeze-play on the end-users prices, increased channel competition, and investor demands for steady - if not increasing - earnings, it is hard to believe that many companies have an untapped source of additional profits on current business. In a worldwide channel economics study, Rubicon analyzed industry giants like...
- White papers 2005-10-10
- Analytics for Tax Collection: From Predictive Models to Optimization
- In tax collection today, analytics face the same burden of proof they faced some 30 years ago in credit risk. However, analytics transformed credit risk management, and today every lender relies on analytics to make decisions on virtually every kind of account activity. The same potential exists in tax collection....
- White papers 2005-05-02
- Use of Block Hessians for the Optimization of Molecular Geometries
- The block Hessian matrix is constructed by mixing a small critical block of the accurate Hessian for key atoms involved in bond breaking and forming with large noncritical blocks of the lowlevel Hessian. The block Hessian strategy efficiently removed the pathological effects of using low-level Hessians, and therefore it provides...
- White papers 2004-11-02
- Sector Exposure Models for Risk Management of Security Portfolio
- Portfolio optimization requires the minimal risk with certain expected return. The portfolio optimization, or risk management, cannot be done by simply minimizing the exposure of the portfolio to each single risk factor independently. In this context the paper explains that the objectives of developing sector exposure models are two-fold: helping...
- White papers 2004-05-12
- Risk Management of a P/C Insurance Company Scenario Generation, Simulation and Optimization
- This paper discusses about a large conglomerate such as a property/casualty insurance firm in this case, which can be divided along business boundaries. This division might be along commercial lines, homeowner lines and perhaps across countries. An insurance firm's capital can be interpreted as a buffer that protects the company...
- White papers 2003-10-31
- Using Stochastic Optimization and Valuation Models to Evaluate the Credit Risk of Corporate Restructuring
- This article offers ways for bankers to advance both their analytic and communication skills – senior bank officials and clients alike to “get the deal done” and insure risk/reward agendas are set in equilibrium. Undeniably, the direct way to achieve results is to take a stochastic view of strategic plans...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Service Process Optimization Through Services: Automation and Global Strategic Sourcing
- CIO's and the departments they manage are challenged by a new working reality that includes tighter budgets and growing demand for demonstrable return on investments. Even as the resources available to them become increasingly constrained, IT departments also face greater pressure from executives and board members to align their activities...
- White papers 2003-01-10
- Mean-Variance Optimization: Modern Portfolio Theory
- This article introduces the concepts of Mean-Variance Optimization MVO and Modern Portfolio Theory MPT in both single and multi-period contexts. It is also intended to help one decide which of the two MVO products, VisualMvo or MvoPlus, should one consider for investments. The fundamental goal of portfolio theory is to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Simulation And Optimization For Real Options Valuation
- From the executive summary: ‘Real Options Valuation ROV considers the managerial flexibility to make ongoing decisions regarding implementation of investment projects and deployment of real assets. The paper introduces a simulation-optimization approach to valuing real investment options based on a model containing several decision variables and realistic stochastic inputs. Using...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Upstream Control and Optimization Increases Return on Investment
- The article describes with example three advanced control / optimization solutions for the upstream industry, part of a comprehensive suite of systems and solutions for increasing oil/gas production. Applications are overviewed for: stabilizing unstable wells, stabilizing slugging in pipelines; and monitoring well production. The bottom line is increased well production...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Enterprise Profit Optimization: Creating Shareholder Value through Integrated and Optimized Decision Processes
- As planning moves from the strategic time frame toward tactical and operational decisions, the challenges of coordinated decision-making rise tremendously. Article maintains that strategic planners have the luxury of time to test alternative sets of forecasts and assumptions, consider multiple scenarios of supply plans and market plans and, ultimately, commit...
- White papers 2002-05-16
- Combined Cycle Heat Recovery Optimization
- Achieving financial improvements requires proper analysis of many requirements and parameters. Changing one input design parameter often results in modifications to other parameters. For example, changing the HRSG design changes efficiency, fuel cost, capital cost, debt financing, and emission rates. Often it is important to assess the impact of a...
- White papers 2001-02-27
- Lateral Ulnar Collateral Ligament of the Elbow: Optimization of Evaluation With Two-Dimensional MR Imaging
- The purpose of this paper is to compare, in a cadaveric model, magnetic resonance MR imaging techniques with differing contrast and spatial resolution properties in the evaluation of disruption of the lateral ulnar collateral ligament LUCL at the elbow. Intermediate-weighted imaging with high spatial resolution and MR arthrography showed the...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- Pre- and Intra-Operative Optimization of Cryotherapy
- Powerful computer systems are about to revolutionize several areas of modern medicine. The most famous example is probably neurosurgery, where sophisticated computer algorithms are combined with modern imaging modalities and interventional scanners to enable very reliable surgery in delicate anatomical positions. So far, these high-tech setups are reserved to a...
- White papers 2000-02-01
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