Engineering Economist articles from September 2001

Engineering Economist archives from September 2001

EDITORIAL.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... I wish to express special thanks to Professor Deborah L. Thurston who resigned from her position as area editor of the journal in July. For the past six years, the engineering economics community benefited from her dedication to maintain the...

A FUZZY MODEL FOR R&D PROJECT SELECTION WITH BENEFIT, OUTCOME AND RESOURCE INTERACTIONS.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT A model of selecting a subset of a collection of indivisible projects is proposed which maximises the global Net Present Value. The Net Present Value of individual projects and the resource utilisation are given in the form of a...

AFTER-TAX ECONOMIC REPLACEMENT ANALYSIS.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT This paper examines after-tax serial replacement analysis under current United States tax law. The law explicitly defines the difference between an asset disposal (retirement) and a like-for-like exchange (replacement). A gain or...

CASE STUDY: ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF COMPONENT MANAGEMENT FOR A NEW DESIGN.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT This paper explores the viability of standardization of design and manufacturing techniques to expedite product development and control design proliferation using an example of a leading transport refrigeration unit manufacturer....

ALTERNATIVE MODELS FOR FINDING CUMULATIVE PAID CAPITAL AND REMAINING BALANCE FOR A UNIFORM SERIES OF CASH FLOWS.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to propose models for finding the cumulative amount of paid capital up to a certain point in time for a discrete uniform series of cash flows, and also the unpaid capital amount of a similar series of...

THE OPTIMAL CYCLE TIME FOR EXPONENTIALLY DETERIORATING PRODUCTS UNDER TRADE CREDIT FINANCING.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT This paper considers the problem of determining the optimal cycle time for exponentially deteriorating products under the condition of permissible delay in payments. Theorem 1 demonstrates that the annual net profit function is...

DATA ANALYSIS & DECISION MAKING WITH MICROSOFT EXCEL.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... CHRISTIAN S. ALBRIGHT, WAYNE L. WINSTON, AND CHRISTOPHER ZAPPE Duxbury Press, Pacific Grove, California, 2002, xii + 998 pp. + accompanying CD: ISBN 0-534-38932-5. List: $97.95. Data overload. In today's information age we are connected...