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Maximizing Hospital Capacity By Automating the Patient Flow Process
The health care industry has gone through major changes over the last few decades - some hospitals closed, many consolidated locations, and others reclassified beds resulting in a nationwide reduction in the supply of inpatient beds. The reduction has led to significant upstream challenges, including emergency department ED overcrowding and...
Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Patient, Reduction, Healthcare
White papers 2004-06-29
Labour Standards and Poverty Reduction
This paper discusses about the effective and well-judged implementation of labour standards - rules which govern working conditions and industrial relations - can play an important part in the reduction of global poverty and in achieving the Millennium Development Goals agreed by the international community. It also outlines ways of...
Tags: Reduction, Standards, Quality, Business Operations
White papers 2004-05-01
Waste Reduction - Its Business Importance
In business, waste often equates with inefficiency and lost profits. Waste reduction is therefore a core initiative of many companies' quality-improvement strategies. Article states that cleaner and leaner operations can enhance a company's reputation, which in turn attracts more customers, builds brand loyalty and improves its investment profile, which increases...
Tags: Article, Reduction, Human Resources, Benefits
White papers 2003-01-01
A Process View of the Business proves an eye opener
This article is basically a case-study about food and drinks company, which was manufacturing and distributing its own and other branded products and was threatened by changes in market structure imposed by the Monopolies & Mergers Commission. Overhead cost reductions were implemented which, though significant, could not address the scale...
Tags: Customer Service, Partnership, Reduction, Business Structures, Sales Strategy, Product Marketing, Food & Beverage, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software
Case studies 2003-01-01
Rapid Setup Blitz - Setup Reduction & Rapid Changeover
Setup reduction and fast, predictable setups enable Lean Manufacturing. Setup reduction reduces setup cost, allows small lot production, smoothes flow, and improves kanban. Setup reduction often known as Single Minute Exchange of Die or SMED is one of the more mundane aspects of Lean Manufacturing and is often ignored. This...
Tags: Setup Reduction, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Manufacturing, It Operations, Lean Manufacturing, Article, Setup, Reduction
White papers 2003-01-01
Cycle-Time Reduction: "As Is" Vs. "Should Be"
Time has become an increasingly valuable commodity for companies as well as individuals. Organizations hope that reducing the time it takes to satisfy customers needs will encourage customers to return. Imagine manufacturing a product or performing a service in half the time it currently takes. The focus of cross-functional process-mapping...
Tags: Reduction, Manufacturing
White papers 2003-01-01
Cycle-Time Reduction: As Is Vs. Should Be
Time has become an increasingly valuable commodity for companies as well as individuals. Organizations hope that reducing the time it takes to satisfy customersí needs will encourage customers to return. Imagine manufacturing a product or performing a service in half the time it currently takes. The focus of cross-functional process-mapping...
Tags: Reduction, Manufacturing
White papers 2003-01-01
Trade Integration and Risk Sharing
What are the effects of increased trade in goods and services on the trade balance? We study the effects of reducing transport costs in a Ricardian model with complete asset markets. Trade integration has three effects on the structure of the economy: a reduction in the home bias in consumption,...
Tags: Finance, Volatility, Opposite, Integration, Reduction, Investment
White papers 2003-01-01
Lead Time Reduction Via Pre-Positioning of Inventory in an Industrial Construction Supply Chain
Lead time reduction is a key concern of many industrial buyers of capital facilities given current economic conditions. In this paper, a case study is presented in which an owner entered the construction supply chain to procure and position key long-lead materials. The materials were held at a position in...
Tags: Institute For Operations Research, Reduction, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2002-11-15
Lead Time Reduction Via Pre-Positioning of Inventory in an Industrial Construction Supply Chain
Lead time reduction is a key concern of many industrial buyers of capital facilities given current economic conditions. Supply chain initiatives in manufacturing settings have led owners to expect that dramatic reductions in lead time are possible in all phases of their business, including the delivery of capital materials. Further,...
Tags: San Diego State University, Reduction, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Supply Chain Management (SCM)
White papers 2002-11-15
Assessing the Effects of Buybacks on Investment Trust Discounts
Buybacks for investment trusts have become common since 1999. The stated motivations for investment trusts buying back shares include ongoing reduction of discounts and a reduction in discount volatility. This paper describes the buybacks made over the study period and tries to assess the circumstances in which this has lead...
Tags: Volatility, Finance, Investment, Buyback, Reduction
White papers 2002-06-06
SVM Decision Boundary Based Discriminative Subspace Induction
This white paper deals with the formulating the problem of sufficient dimension reduction for classification in parallel terms as for regression. The report involves study of the problem of linear dimension reduction for classification, with a focus on sufficient dimension reduction, i.e., inducing subspaces without loss of discriminative information Disclosures...
Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Engineering, Reduction, Classification
White papers 2002-06-03
Beware: Reducing Cycle Time May Be the Wrong Objective!
Lean processes, cellular manufacturing and cycle time reductions are all beneficial activities, but beware! Increased flexibility, lower inventory, decreased working capital and improved cash flow depends on shorter lead times. Shorter lead times are realized when capacity is properly managed and lot sizes are reduced by first overcoming obstacles and...
Tags: Manufacturing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Reduction
White papers 2002-01-01
Restaurant Waste Reduction Manual: A Step-by-Step Approach to Developing a Waste Reduction Campaign
Waste reduction is a dynamic process. Many restaurants have been very successful with waste reduction. This Full Circle Resources manual provides all the information needed, in a systematic manner, to develop a waste reduction campaign, which is summarized below. In general, this process can be used by any size restaurant.
Tags: Reduction
White papers 2000-06-06
Managing the Reduction in Force
Even in boon times, a company may find itself facing the prospect of a reduction in force. The proposed merger of Exxon and Mobil was accompanied by an announcement that 9,000 employees would lose their jobs. How does an employer manage a reduction in force? A business should develop...
Tags: Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Reduction, Human Resources, Finance, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management
White papers 1999-01-01
Elementary School Teaches Lesson in Efficiency
Paint Lick Elementary School, located in Garrard County, is space conditioned by a geothermal heating and cooling system. The 39,564 square-foot facility is space conditioned by a 123-ton WaterFurnace Premier Series geothermal system. Underground heat transfer is achieved via a vertical closed loop pipe configuration, constructed of PE3408 (high density...
Tags: School, Reduction, Benefits, Human Resources
Case studies
Gas Engine-Driven Chillers
This paper gives details about the gas engine-driven chiller which operates much like a conventional electric chiller, except that an engine is used instead of an electric motor to drive a compressor (screw, reciprocating or centrifugal). These units can use most types of refrigerants. Engine-driven chillers operate at higher efficiencies...
Tags: Efficiency, Reduction
White papers
Reducing Flow Time in Aircraft Manufacturing
This paper describes about key concepts in the planning of airplane manufacturing, the costs of flow time and shows how to quantify these costs; to propose a strategy for flow-time reduction based on productivity improvements from learning. A regression analyses that relate system variances to the direct labor content and...
Tags: Reduction, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Regression, Aircraft, Aerospace & Defense, Strategy, Manufacturing, Management
White papers
Learning From Death: A Hospital Mortality Reduction Programme
This paper describes how mortality intelligence was used constructively to trigger closer investigation of processes of clinical care across medical and surgical specialties. This investigation led to common themes of quality improvement across the hospital. During the course of the programme the authors observed statistically significant reductions in their hospital...
Tags: Hospital, Reduction, U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services, Healthcare
White papers

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Church & Dwight to Build New Laundry Detergent Plant in Pennsylvania
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Church & Dwight to Build New Laundry Detergent Plant in PennsylvaniaC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Church & Dwight Co. has announced plans to construct a new integrated laundry detergent manufacturing plant and distribution center in York County, Pennsylvania. ...
Articles 2009-06-08
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