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A quantitative performace measurement framework for health care systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Performance measurement has been widely used in the manufacturing industry for years. This research has focused on the adaptation of a performance measurement system used in manufacturing for application in health care ...
Period traveling salesman with customer stratification
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Period Traveling Salesman Problem (PTSP) has been a popular subject in the area of Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) with the objective to minimize ...
Implementing systems engineering techniques into health care: an investigation into using problem based learning in medical schools to teach systems engineering
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Health care delivery in the United States needs improvement. Each year, between 44,000 and 98,000 people die as a result of medical errors in the United States. Systems engineering tools can help improve health care. A ...
Staging approaches to reduce overall cost in a crossdock environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
Crossdocking operations seek to move materials from inbound locations to outbound locations as quickly as possible. In some cases this can be achieved without intermediate product staging. However, in an environment with ...
Assessing the quality of care in nursing homes through Bayesian belief networks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
The need to properly assess, and thus, improve the quality of care in nursing homes is a growing concern. This research proposes Bayesian belief networks (BBNs) as a modeling tool to perform such assessments. Variables ...
Data mining extension for economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This research extends the fuzzy association rule mining technique capable of processing quantitative data and implements it to study the relationships ...
Design of distribution channel: direct sale vs. mixed sale
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
The design of the distribution channel is one of main decisions for manufacturers and should be determined in the early stage of the production. In this paper, two types of channel distributions are suggested for single ...
Disaggregate forecasting models : application to Ameren UE's transformer usage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Maintaining appropriate inventory levels is essential when attempting to maximize potential revenue and customer satisfaction. Within the utilities industry the significance of customer satisfaction is of utmost importance ...
The development and adaptation of the computer aided environment to facilitate industrial energy audits
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Industrial Energy Audits became more significant in the last several decades in response to increasing rates of energy cost and sustainable awareness. The Industrial Assessment Center supported by the U.S. Department of ...
Hub arc selection for less-than-truckload consolidation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
For more than twenty years, shipment consolidation has been utilized as a method to significantly decrease the cost of transporting goods, people, and information. Due to ever-increasing fuel costs and customer expectations, ...
Multi-attribute decision making: a test on the impact of data attributes dependency
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In Multi-Attribute Decision Making (MADM) problems, several methods have been developed to aid the decision maker. MADM procedures can be applied to a ...
An integrated stock assignment model for a warehouse fast picking area
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Order picking and restocking of the fast picking area have been identified as the most labor-intensive and costly activities of any distribution center. In a picker-to-item process environment, traveling is an important ...
The use of radio frequency identification (RFID) in tracking surgical sponges and reducing wrong-site surgeries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
There has been some promising research in the use of RFID technology to ensure that medical sponges are not mistakenly left in surgical patients--estimated to occur once in every 10,000 open cavity surgeries. However, the ...
An integrated model of cross docking
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Cross docking is a relatively new logistics technique used in the retail and trucking industries with operations seeking to move materials from inbound locations to outbound locations as quickly as possible. As the high-speed ...
Association rule mining in cooperative research
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This study applies the data mining methods in economics research. Association rule mining and clustering techniques are used in the cooperative (United Producers, Inc) survey study, in order to find interesting patterns ...
A practical approach to the cyclic multi-bin joint replenishment problem
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Inventory management practices of supplied parts in manufacturing facilities is a performance critical topic that is often underestimated in importance. Commonly, supplied parts in manufacturing are ordered and inventoried ...
Relation-based item slotting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The cost of warehouse operations contributes approximately 20% of the total cost in a supply-chain system, and the cost of the picking process can be as high as 65% of the warehousing cost. Therefore, there is an incentive ...
Cooling system for micro scale food transport process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
For the purpose of food safety during food transport in micro scale businesses with non-refrigerated trucks, coolers are one of the main containers that can be used to meet food safety regulations. In this research, a ...
Tradeoff analysis for an integrated transportation and inventory distribution network using mixed integer linear programming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] One of the distribution network problems faced by industrial organizations today is coordinating the movement of goods on a global scale. The flow of ...
A systematic framework to improve knowledge management through information technology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Organizations rely on their IT infrastructure to perform on a daily basis, and a constant debate on whether the IT tools used are the appropriate ones to achieve their strategic planning objectives is always present. Many ...