In 2001, Visteon Corporation's automotive glass plant in Nashville, Tennessee, renovated its millwater pumping system. Visteon is an automotive parts manufacturer that was spun off from Ford Motor Corporation in 2000. The plant personnel decided to retrofit the millwater pumping system based on Tencarva's system review and recommendations. The project...
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...
The Town of Trumbull was looking for a way to increase the operating performance of one of its 10 sewage pumping stations. The new pump handles the same volume as the original pumps during non-peak periods, but runs for longer periods of time. A new pump site under construction in...
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...
As a large health plan organization, call center efficiency was becoming increasingly important to meet service optimization goals. In a difficult economic environment the organization faced pressure to reduce costs and report more accurately on performance for better business decision-making. Accenture helped to improve call center productivity and service levels...
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.
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...
Evaluation performed at the Karolinska University Hospital to evaluate what impact the availability of Native TEQ ultrasound technology on the ACUSON Sequoia ultrasound system would have on ergonomic factors in a variety of ultrasound examination types. Keystroke logs were analyzed for exams done with and without NTEQ ultrasound technology to...
Workforce optimization is the process of ensuring the company has the right number of people with the right set of skills. It is particularly important in project work where a firm continually has to pull together teams with the right set of skills to deliver its projects. When optimization is...
Retailers face difficulties assessing product sales performance, maintaining a competitive mix and hitting revenue and profitability targets due to inadequate information regarding store segment, individual store and overall assortment composition. This paper presents an opportunity to gain competitive advantage by implementing technology with the ability to increase the understanding and...
The healthcare organizations need to transform inherent business processes and underlying infrastructures in an effort to reduce errors and improve quality in an increasingly demanding delivery environment. In this pursuit, healthcare providers are not unlike their counterparts in other in industries. In helping healthcare providers fuse strategy, process and technology,...
This paper describes how Genetic Programming GP techniques are used to help project managers find near optimal designs for their project organizations. GP is used as a postprocessor optimizer for the project organization design simulator Virtual Design Team VDT. Decision making policy and individual/sub-team properties, activity assignments and percentage allocation...
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL and U.S. Department of Energy DOE are interested in developing more efficient vehicle air conditioning (A/C) systems to reduce fuel consumption in advanced vehicle designs. Vehicle A/C systems utilizing electrically-driven compressors are one possible system design approach to increasing A/C system performance over various...
The key to workforce optimization is people programs that can be categorized in three general areas: reward and benefits programs; human resources programs - including succession, development and performance management; and infrastructure programs that manage personnel and address compliance issues. Many companies are discovering new and innovative ways to maximize...
Study focuses on formation evaluation of Miocene gas bearing reservoirs in Matagorda Island field (GOM 519-18); and developing some advanced interpretation techniques that could improve drilling and well performance in other parts of Gulf of Mexico. Semi-consolidated sediments found in the offshore Gulf of Mexico presents a particularly challenging problem...
Most executives and managers are simply looking for ways to survive in this down economy, let alone boost profits. Executives and managers are rethinking their approaches to business, reevaluating their enterprises from top to bottom and front office to back. This paper focuses on how to optimize the workforce scheduling...
Organizations give importance to highly refined systems and processes in warehouse operations. They, often, overlook the little things that contribute towards efficient warehouse operations. They include training, tools, equipment maintenance, and cooling. Time wasted by employees wandering around the warehouse searching for a pallet jack or a tape dispenser will...
Hydroplan UK have recently carried out extensive studies in order to investigate, model and report on the behavior of river flows within the vicinity of intakes to existing hydro schemes. The findings presented in the paper are 'Hydraulic Design and Optimization of New and Existing Intakes'. Considerable project resources are...
This paper is about the on going development of the design optimization tool HATOPT at ECN. It describes the development of the HATOPT code which has been made during the SITEOPT project. The HATOPT code is based on the BLADOPT code which did not make use of a sophisticated aero-elastic...
In estimating the inputs into the Modern Portfolio Theory MPT portfolio optimization problem, it is usual to use equal weighted historic data. Equal weighting of the data, however, does not take account of the current state of the market. Consequently, this approach is unlikely to perform well in any subsequent...
