Engineering Economist articles from March 1998

Engineering Economist archives from March 1998

Linking of manufacturing strategy, market requirements and manufacturing attributes in technology choice: an expert system approach.
March 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION Manufacturing strategy is an area of growing concern in most industries. It is the management principles dictating how a product is manufactured, how resources are deployed in production, and how the infrastructure necessary...

Fuzzy NCIC.(nontraditional capital investment criteria in investment decision making models)
March 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION The nontraditional capital investment criteria (NCIC) method was developed by Boucher and Wicks (MacStravic) [4, 38]. This method is similar in some respects to Saaty's analytic hierarchy process (AHP) [8, 31]. Both AHP and...

Organizational characteristics influencing the use of risk analysis in strategic capital investments.
March 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION The handling of risk is an important, often complex, task in reaching effective strategic capital investment decisions. Major fluctuations in exchange rates, increasing rates of technological change, and the difficulty in...

Determination of the optimal procurement policy under integrating working capital.
March 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION In view of the interrelationships among inventory, procurement, cash discounts, accounts payable and accounts receivable policies, both academicians and practitioners appear to have recognized the need to integrate them. Until...

Automobile replacement case studies for engineering economy classes.
March 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION Case studies have long been used to supplement material in a variety of courses, including engineering economics. The development of a case study that is both interesting to students, yet useful as an instructional tool is...