Engineering Economist articles from September 1996

Engineering Economist archives from September 1996

Supporting economic reform of the Chinese petroleum industry: a dynamic decision making model.
September 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION China has been in a transition from a planned economy to a Chinese style market economy for the past sixteen years. With the stimulation provided by this growing economic market structure, the average growth rate of China's...

Optimal replacement of durable equipment in heat transmission systems.
September 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION In the broad class of engineering systems providing services of different kinds such as lighting, heating or transportation, the main determinant of leading economic indicators is the level of performance of durable equipment....

Present worth of external quality losses for symmetric nominal-is-better quality characteristics.
September 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION Symmetric-nominal-is-better (SNIB) product characteristics are parameters that define a product's quality for which: (1) there is an ideal value, or target, (2) deviations both lower and higher than the target are undesired, and...

Engineering economy abstracts on-line: a state-of-the-art review.
September 22, 1996... THE ENGINEERING ECONOMY ABSTRACTS: PAST AND PRESENT In 1970, Professor G.W. Smith of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems at Iowa State University, compiled the first engineering economy abstracts that covered relevant...

Engineering Economics, 4th ed.
September 22, 1996... Elin M. Wicks University of Missouri - Columbia This textbook is part of the McGraw-Hill Series in Industrial Engineering and Management Science. The text consists of 15 chapters, nine appendices and a diskette containing software to...

Probabilistic Reliability Engineering.
September 22, 1996... James A. Falk Wiley Interscience Publication Reliability has increased its importance in the recent industry due to growing complexity of the engineered systems. However, most models developed for reliability are not readily understandable by...

Project Management in Manufacturing and High Technology Operations, 2d ed.
September 22, 1996... Michael R. Duffey George Washington University It makes sense to discuss manufacturing issues and techniques within the context of project management. Many high-volume manufacturing organizations have an increasingly project-oriented focus in...