Venture capitalists typically require that you can explain the business model in the time it takes the lift to get to the tenth floor. Implementation typically takes years. There is a disproportionate large amount of focus on what constitutes an innovative new business model compared to implementation since most e-business failures are attributed to failures in implementation. Obviously, there ...

We consider a manufacturer, served by a single supplier, who has to quote due dates to arriving customers in a maketo-order production environment. The manufacturer is penalized for long lead times and for missing due dates. To meet due dates, the manufacturer has to obtain components from a supplier. We model this manufacturer and supplier as a two-machine flow shop, consider several variation...

Light olefins, which are vital components for the petrochemical industry, are traditionally obtained through the refinement of crude oil. However, the rapidly increasing demand of oil-based chemicals calls for the development of new technologies based on alternative natural sources. Among these processes, the methanol-to-hydrocarbons (MTH) technology is one of the most promising and currently e...

The research seeks to understand how effectively Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are able to meet the decision support requirements of manufacturing companies in the UK, with a particular interest in how the effectiveness of support differs based on production strategy. As a result, survey responses have been divided into Make-To-Order (MTO) and Make-To-Stock (MTS) companies. We have...

An order admission model is developed to introduce revenue management into MTO B2B industries. This solution is designed to resolve a common order management dilemma faced by manufacturers with severe seasonal demands. Considering the requirement that manufacturing industries be risk averse, the objective is to maximize the expected total revenue under a targeted capacity utilization constraint...

Methyltrioxorhenium (MTO) complexed with pyridine was shown to be a highly effective catalyst for the regioselective monoepoxidation of conjugated di- and trienes using 30% H2O2 at or below room temperature. The resultant allylic epoxides, and the triols derived from them, are versatile synthetic intermediates as well as substructures present in many bioactive natural products. The site of epox...

We report the results of new SPH calculations of parabolic collisions between two main-sequence stars in a globular cluster. Such collisions are directly relevant to the formation of blue stragglers. In particular, we consider parent stars of mass M=MTO = 0:2; 0:5; 0:75, and 1, where MTO is the cluster turno mass (typically about 0:8M ). Low-mass stars (with M = 0:2MTO or 0:5MTO) are assumed to...

The growing consumption of light olefins has stimulated intensive researches on methanol to olefin (MTO) process which possesses great advantages for coal conversion value-added chemicals in an environmentally benign way. catalysts commonly used MTO faces several challenges such as poor selectivity control, low hydrothermal stability and short lifetime. In the present study, we prepared a serie...