Stochastic production capacity: A bane or a boon for quick response supply chains?

The quick response (QR) system that can cope with demand volatility by shortening lead time has been well studied in the literature. Much of the existing literature assumes implicitly or explicitly that the manufacturers under QR can always meet the demand because the production capacity is always sufficient. However, when the order comes with a short lead time under QR, availability of the manufacturer's production capacity is not guaranteed. This motivates us to explore QR in supply chains with stochastic production capacity. Specifically, we study QR in a two-echelon supply chain with Bayesian demand information updating. We consider the situation where the manufacturer's production capacity under QR is uncertain. We first explore how stochastic production capacity affects supply chain decisions and QR implementation. We then incorporate the manufacturer's ability to expand capacity into the model. We explore how the manufacturer determines the optimal capacity expansion decision, and the value of such an ability to the supply chain and its agents. Finally, we extend the model to the two-stage two-ordering case and derive the optimal ordering policy by dynamic programming. We compare the single-ordering and two-ordering cases to generate additional managerial insights about how ordering flexibility affects QR when production capacity is stochastic. We also explore the transparent supply chain and find that our main results still hold.     

A general strategic capacity planning model under demand uncertainty

Capacity planning decisions affect a significant portion of future revenue. In equipment intensive industries, these decisions usually need to be made in the presence of both highly volatile demand and long capacity installation lead times. For a multiple product case, we present a continuous‐time capacity planning model that addresses problems of realistic size and complexity found in current practice. Each product requires specific operations that can be performed by one or more tool groups. We consider a number of capacity allocation policies. We allow tool retirements in addition to purchases because the stochastic demand forecast for each product can be decreasing. We present a cluster‐based heuristic algorithm that can incorporate both variance reduction techniques from the simulation literature and the principles of a generalized maximum flow algorithm from the network optimization literature. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2006     

海区变化对新型舰船海水淡化装置性能的影响

针对舰船远航时某新型海水淡化装置性能随海水盐度等因素变化而改变的问题,分析了该型海水淡化装置主要影响因素,并对其造水量进行了热力校核计算.实例计算结果表明,某航行海区较设计海区排污系数相对增大近25倍,造水量由原来的2 042 kg/h下降到1 847 kg/h,下降了9.55%.     

数字化坦克营作战能力灰色聚类评估

评估数字化坦克营的作战能力对推动数字化装甲部队建设、提高部队战斗力具有一定的现实意义。以灰色系统理论为基础,将层次分析法和灰色评估法相结合,建立了数字化坦克营的灰色聚类评估模型,论述了利用该模型进行评估的基本步骤,结合实例对数字化坦克营作战能力进行了聚类评估,提出了提高数字化坦克营作战能力的方法。评估结果比较符合实际情况,证明了该模型的正确性。     

弹药生产响应能力综合评价指标权重组合方法

针对战时弹药需求的不确定性而造成对生产能力冲击的特点,为科学地确定综合评价指标权重,评价军工企业弹药生产响应能力,运用基于偏差平方和最小的综合评价指标粗糙集与网络分析法的权重组合算法,将定性与定量评价方法相结合,为客观评价企业弹药生产响应能力提供了科学的依据,对提高弹药生产决策的军事经济效益具有重要的意义。     

有粘结预应力BFRP筋混凝土梁受弯性能理论研究

玄武岩纤维筋是一种新型复合材料,在国防和特殊建筑工程领域具有重要的应用价值.对不同预应力度的3根有粘结预应力BFRP筋混凝土试验梁进行理论研究,初步探讨和建立预应力BFRP筋混凝土梁的破坏模式判别、正截面受弯承载力、短期刚度、平均裂缝间距、平均裂缝宽度的计算方法,理论计算值与试验结果吻合较好,为建立新型预应力BFRP筋...     

武警部队重大改革必须向“能打胜仗”的战斗力聚焦

从关于国防和军队重大改革的重要论述入手,系统地阐述了武警部队重大改革必须向“能打胜仗”的战斗力聚焦。主要从三个层面进行分析：一是向提高部队整体素质及优化规模结构聚焦;二是向提高部队武器装备保障效能聚焦;三是向增强部队以执勤处突为中心的军事能力聚焦。     

带运力限制及单边时变约束下多出发机场航空战略投送兵力分配模型研究

利用民航力量由多个机场向一个目标机场实施航空战略投送时,由于各民航机场都具有运力限制约束,不可能无限制地快速投送兵力,因此,考虑了在多个出发机场存在运力限制约束的情况下,构建了"投送时间最短,动员机场最少"多目标决策模型,并给出了优化算法和算例.     

Revenue management with aircraft reassignment flexibility

A well‐studied problem in airline revenue management is the optimal allocation of seat inventory among different fare‐classes, given a capacity for the flight and a demand distribution for each class. In practice, capacity on a flight does not have to be fixed; airlines can exercise some flexibility on the supply side by swapping aircraft of different capacities between flights as partial booking information is gathered. This provides the airline with the capability to more effectively match their supply and demand. In this paper, we study the seat inventory control problem considering the aircraft swapping option. For theoretical and practical purposes, we restrict our attention to the class of booking limit policies. Our analytical results demonstrate that booking limits considering the swapping option can be considerably different from those under fixed capacity. We also show that principles on the relationship between the optimal booking limits and demand characteristics (size and risk) developed for the fixed‐capacity problem no longer hold when swapping is an option. We develop new principles and insights on how demand characteristics affect the optimal booking limits under the swapping possibility. We also develop an easy to implement heuristic for determining the booking limits under the swapping option and show, through a numerical study, that the heuristic generates revenues close to those under the optimal booking limits. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2011     

焊接接头的 TIG 熔修对潜艇耐压壳体抗爆性的影响

本文初步探讨了 TIG 熔修工艺对潜艇耐压壳体抗爆性的影响。试验结果表明,TIG 熔修可以有效地延缓在爆炸载荷作用下焊接接头裂纹的发生和发展。本文的工作为深入、系统地研究熔修工艺对潜艇耐压壳体抗爆性的影响作了有益的尝试,并为提高潜艇耐压壳体抗爆性指出了新的途径。