Flow rate flexibility in complex production departments

Designing patient flow in emergency departments

Designing patient flow in emergency departments Yariv N. Marmor a , Boaz Golany b , Shlomo Israelit c & Avishai Mandelbaum b a Mayo Clinic, Divisions of Health Care Policy and Research, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, USA b Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Haifa, 32000, Israel c Rambam Health Care Campus, Emergency Department, Haifa, 31096, I...

Production Flexibility and Hedging

We extend the analysis on hedging with price and output uncertainty by endogenizing the output decision. Specifically, we consider the joint determination of output and hedging in the case of flexibility in production. We show that the risk-averse firm always maintains a short position in the futures market when the futures price is actuarially fair. Moreover, in the context of an example, we s...

Pragmatic flexibility in primate vocal production

The production of vocalizations by monkeys and apes is often described as highly constrained and fundamentally different from human speech. We review recent field studies of baboons and bonobos that suggest greater flexibility. Calls function to reduce the uncertainty inherent in social interactions. Vocal production, like individuals’ responses to calls, is subtly tuned to variation in the soc...

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Traffic flow models and service rules for complex production systems

We present an overview over recent developments of traffic flow models for production networks. Particular emphasis is given to the implementation of service rules for complex systems, involving multiple product types and re entrant loops. A rather general scheduling concept is introduced and demonstrated on some numerical experiments.