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- Inventory Management in Railway Sleepers: A Simulation Model for Replacement Strategies
- This paper describes the development of a simulation model to assess the inventory requirements of alternative rail sleeper replacement strategies. The main aim of the model is to determine the optimal replacement strategy, given replacement costs and resultant train operating cost benefits. The replacement problem has been considered under the...
- White papers 2005-11-15
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- Solving the Parts Obsolescence Dilemma: Finding Replacement Components With the Least Amount of Effort
- The purpose of this white paper is to define the problem of electronics parts obsolescence. To introduce the reader to four methods for addressing this growing problem accessing comprehensive databases that contain parts replacement information, using off the shelf tools to aid in finding relevant information within these databases, implementing...
- White papers 2003-09-04
- My Problem with Chesapeake Energy's New Deal
- Chesapeake Energy Corp. CHK Reports Preliminary Production & Reserves; Updates Haynesville Activity & Hedges; Announces $500 Million Senior Note Deal. 4Q08 Production: 2.315 Bcfepd (92% natural gas). Up 2% sequentially and 14% year over year once you get everything on...
- External links 2009-01-28
- Play It Again, Sam? Optimal Replacement Policies for A Motion Picture Exhibitor
- Every week, motion picture exhibitors must decide whether to keep or replace the movies playing in their theaters in light of the past week's sales data. This decision is complex because of the dynamic decision environment, the uncertainty of demand, the complex revenue sharing terms between the retailer and the...
- White papers 2001-01-18
- Boston Radar Problem Cripples Airline Service across Country.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Apr. 25--As Federal Aviation Administration technicians worked yesterday to install, test, and operate a replacement radar antenna for Logan International Airport, airline operations centers struggled to keep problems in Boston from swamping the schedule throughout the nation. The schedule began to return to...
- Research articles 2000-04-30
- "Unhappy" Ferrari Announces Schumacher Is Out as Replacement for Felipe Massa
- Date posted: 08-11-2009 MARANELLO, Italy — Michael Schumacher has called off his dramatic Formula 1 comeback as a replacement for the injured Ferrari driver Felipe Massa because of a "pain in the neck." Ferrari announced on Tuesday that Schumacher will be replaced by Luca Badoer, who last raced in Formula...
- News items 2009-08-11
- Using your lawyer to accommodate like-kind exchange creates tax problem.(TAX-FREE SWAPS)(Brief Article)
- Don't use your regular lawyer to accommodate a like-kind exchange. Doing so will make the swap taxable, according to IRS officials. The problem arises in a deferred exchange where a third-party intermediary is used to hold escrowed funds while the seller picks replacement...
- Research articles 2005-06-03
- Outside the sand box: while trying to minimize casting thin-wall metal sections, Ashland Specialty Chemical discovers that the answer to a problem sometimes means changing the way people think.(Exactherm )
- Some call it an additive, others a replacement. Some even consider it an anti-chill material. Regardless of the title, Ashland Casting Solution's (www.ashchem.com/ascc/castings) Exactherm technology provides a new approach to the problem of how to cast thin-walled metal sections. Now metalcasters have...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- The Problem: Make It Grow But Keep It Small
- Over the years, BOPs have evolved to meet new needs and conditions, and continue to be highly attractive to insurers and insured's alike. The revised AAIS BOP introduces some innovations in rating procedure to make it better able to address certain situations. A rating innovation also figures into an expansion...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Unique Problem Solving for Petrochemical Industry
- A lubrication malfunction caused a catastrophic failure in a gearbox on one of the offshore gas production platforms. In this application, the gearbox was a compressor drive located between a gas turbine and a gas compressor and was used for pumping material through undersea lines directly to the customer's processing...
- Case studies
- The New Imperatives for High Technology Support: A Survey of Best Practices in Problem Resolution
- This report discusses a research program in order to understand emerging trends in high-technology support. The objective is, fundamentally, to understand the issues that keep support executives up at night and to learn the best practices that leaders are applying to those problems. Support leaders are replacing ad-hoc collaboration with...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Northwest Mechanics File Grievance over Airbus Replacement Workers and Cite Pattern of Union-Busting Activities
- BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association AMFA Local 33 has filed an unfair labor practices grievance with Northwest Airlines over the company's use of Airbus employees at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to perform maintenance work in violation of Northwest's contract with AMFA. Union officials called for accelerated arbitration...
- Research articles 2005-06-30
- Moog Chassis Parts Introduces Problem-Solving Lower Ball Joint, Service Tool for Ford Taurus, Mercury Sable and Lincoln Continental
- SOUTHFIELD, Mich. -- MoogR Chassis Parts now offers a complete repair solution to help professional technicians achieve faster, easier lower ball joint replacement and enhance component performance on Ford Taurus, Mercury Sable and Lincoln Continental models. Moog Chassis Parts are manufactured and marketed by Federal-Mogul Corporation (OTCBB:FDMLQ).
- Research articles 2005-05-02
- Chromium hazard drives replacement R&D. (Materials Science)
- Chromium is among the EPA's top 17 toxic substances, which in its hexavalent form is a known carcinogen. "Chromium compounds are hazardous as vapors in plating operations and as waste products," says Keith Legg, a research scientist at BIRL, Northwestern Univ.'s industrial reasearch...
- Research articles 1993-09-01
- Officials: New nukes, no tests, no problem
- Federal nuclear weapons officials declared Friday that building the first nuclear warheads for a new U.S. arsenal without ever testing them is "feasible." That determination by the Nuclear Weapons Council, a panel of top Defense and Energy department weapons officials, is highly controversial but took few by...
- Research articles 2006-12-02
- New nukes, no testing, no problem, experts say
- Federal nuclear weapons officials declared Friday that building the first nuclear warheads for a new U.S. arsenal without ever testing them is "feasible." That determination by the Nuclear Weapons Council, a panel of top Defense and Energy department weapons officials, is highly controversial but took few by...
- Research articles 2006-12-02
- New nukes, no testing, no problem
- Federal nuclear weapons officials declared Friday that building the first nuclear warheads for a new U.S. arsenal without ever testing them is feasible. That determination by the Nuclear Weapons Council, a panel of top Defense and Energy department weapons officials, is highly controversial but took few by...
- Research articles 2006-12-02
- NASA studies shuttle seal problem
- In an eerie parallel to the problems that doomed space shuttle Challenger, NASA is grappling with O-rings as the agency prepares to launch a second teacher into space. Malfunctioning O-rings, the seals between sections of the shuttle's booster rockets, led to Challenger's explosion shortly into its...
- Research articles 2007-07-20
- The Wichita Eagle, Kan., Business Solutions Column.
- The Wichita Eagle, Kan. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 2--BUSINESS: Master-Tech Transmission OWNERS: Mike and Cheryl Sparkman TYPE OF BUSINESS: Automobile transmission repair, replacement PROBLEM: Operational bottlenecks and management shortfalls SOLUTION: The Sparkmans got help...
- Research articles 2002-08-02
- Defense Technology International Magazine Looks at Problems In Next-Generation Radios, M-16 Replacement.
- NEW YORK, November 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The November/December issue of Defense Technology International DTI, a new magazine published by The McGraw-Hill Companies' Aviation Week Group, highlights growing problems in the U.S. Army's ambitious modernization efforts. Feature articles include a profile of the...
- Research articles 2005-11-23
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