UNLABELLED Economic considerations suggest that it is desirable to keep operating rooms fully used when staffed, but the optimum utilization of an operating room (OR) is not known. We created a simulation of an OR to define optimum utilization. We set operational goals of having cases start within 15 min of the scheduled time and of having the cases end no more than 15 min past the scheduled en...

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have attracted increasing attention from researchers in many fields, including economics, medicine and computer processing, and have been used to solve a wide range of problems. In remote sensing research, ANN classifiers have been used for many investigations such as land cover mapping, image compression, geological mapping, and meteorological image classifica...

The profitability of forging and stamping plants is directly related to the economical use raw materials. For sheet metal stamping, material losses can account for a significant proportion (up 20-40%), so reducing them even by few percent saves thousands tonnes metal. An indicator utilisation efficiency rationality cutting factor η, defined as ratio weight workpiece rate consumption its product...