This paper proposes a new motivation for information sharing in a decentralized channel consisting of a single manufacturer and two competing retailers. The manufacturer provides a common product to the retailers at the same wholesale price. Both retailers add their own values to the product and distribute it to consumers. Factors such as retail prices, values added to the product, and local ad...

Quality engineering uses robust design in order to improve quality by reducing the effects of variability. Variability of the product can be reduced by two stages. One is parameter design which is adjustable to the nominal value so that output is less sensitive to the cause of variability. Other one is tolerance design which is to reduce the tolerance in order to control variability. All costs ...

In recent times in the business of semiconductor testing, the claim has been that Test Cost has begun to dominate the overall cost of product (die + packaging + test) in some product lines. The cost models that I have seen are simplistic models that just take into account the product yield and the per-second test cost. More recently, I have become even more concerned over the effects of Mean-Ti...

Security critical systems development needs to integrate both project and product risks assessment into the development. Such systems need to balance time to market constraints, cost demands, functional requirement, as well as security requirements. This advocate the use of techniques that support costeffective and risk-driven development. The aspect-oriented risk-driven development (AORDD) fra...

In today’s dynamic market, organizations must be adaptive to market fluctuations. In addition, studies show that material-handling cost makes up between 20 and 50 percent of the total operating cost. Therefore, this paper considers the problem of arranging and rearranging, when there are changes in product mix and demand, manufacturing facilities such that the sum of material handling and rearr...

Reliability is an important engineering requirement for consistently delivering acceptable product performance through time. As time progresses, the product may fail prematurely due to component degradation and uncertainty in design and/or operating conditions. The degradation of reliability with time increases the lifecycle cost due to potential warranty costs, repairs and loss of market share...

Offering product variety affordably is the crux of mass customization. Unfortunately, this is the foremost difficulty that enterprises face in making the transition to this paradigm. Anderson (1997) addresses the problem of offering affordable variety through the identification of the cost of variety. The cost of variety is the sum of all the costs of attempting to offer customers variety with ...

an improved and facile preparation of 3,7-dinitro-1,3,5,7-tetraazabicyclo [3,3,1] nonane(dpt) has been developed starting from urea. in the procedure dpt was synthesized vian,n’-dinitrourea (dnu) as intermediate and various operating parameters such astemperature, ph and molar ratio of reagents have been optimized to give maximum yield ofthe desired product. the low cost method is concise, oper...