Optimal control of a production‐inventory system with both backorders and lost sales

We consider the optimal control of a production inventory‐system with a single product and two customer classes where items are produced one unit at a time. Upon arrival, customer orders can be fulfilled from existing inventory, if there is any, backordered, or rejected. The two classes are differentiated by their backorder and lost sales costs. At each decision epoch, we must determine whether or not to produce an item and if so, whether to use this item to increase inventory or to reduce backlog. At each decision epoch, we must also determine whether or not to satisfy demand from a particular class (should one arise), backorder it, or reject it. In doing so, we must balance inventory holding costs against the costs of backordering and lost sales. We formulate the problem as a Markov decision process and use it to characterize the structure of the optimal policy. We show that the optimal policy can be described by three state‐dependent thresholds: a production base‐stock level and two order‐admission levels, one for each class. The production base‐stock level determines when production takes place and how to allocate items that are produced. This base‐stock level also determines when orders from the class with the lower shortage costs (Class 2) are backordered and not fulfilled from inventory. The order‐admission levels determine when orders should be rejected. We show that the threshold levels are monotonic (either nonincreasing or nondecreasing) in the backorder level of Class 2. We also characterize analytically the sensitivity of these thresholds to the various cost parameters. Using numerical results, we compare the performance of the optimal policy against several heuristics and show that those that do not allow for the possibility of both backordering and rejecting orders can perform poorly.© 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 2010     

菜籽油基防锈润滑添加剂的制备及性能研究

菜籽油基添加剂是一种可生物降解的环保的润滑剂。水基润滑剂具有导热性好,成本低廉等优点。利用菜籽油制备了一种具有良好润滑性、极压性、防锈性及表面活性的多效水溶性润滑添加剂。此添加剂生物降解性好,制备过程中无废物及污染物产生,具有很好的环保效果。     

消防法中责令停止执业的法律依据

《消防法》规定的责令停止执业是对有法定消防行政违法行为的单位予以暂停相应资质、资格的一种处罚措施。其处罚主体为国家认证认可监督管理委员会以及地方质检部门;其处罚过程应适用听证程序,并确认、核实情节是否严重;其处罚实施应附有合理期限,同时需要采取相应保障措施。     

烟草生产储存火灾危险性及防火对策研究

通过分析烟草生产、储存中的火灾危险性和当前烟草生产、储存时采用的防火措施，对卷烟联合生产工房内储存物料的安全间距、厂房和仓库外搭建雨篷、消防车道和烟草仓库消防设施设计等问题进行了探讨。     

作战指挥流程建模研究

近年来,国内外学者在作战指挥流程建模、评估等方面做了大量工作,取得了很多重要成果,但是缺乏对该领域研究现状的归纳与总结。从作战指挥流程的基本概念入手,通过概括当前学术界对指挥流程的3种基本认识,指明了作战指挥流程研究的范畴;归纳了4种常见的指挥流程建模方法及最新研究进展,对建模方法的特点进行总结;梳理了指挥流程效能评估的常见方法,并给出相关参考文献,概述其研究成果;结合作战指挥流程建模方法,简单介绍了3种常用的建模工具;为开展作战指挥流程建模研究提供有益的借鉴与参考。     

The Production and Deposition of the Guisborough Helmet

In September 1878 the British Museum received a donation of a folded metal plate which had been embossed and gilded. Restoration of the object revealed that the folded plate was in fact the outer casing of a Roman copper alloy cavalry sports type helmet which dates to the late second or third century AD. The story of what became known as the Guisborough helmet began 14 years earlier in what was then the North Riding of Yorkshire when workers employed by the Cleveland Railway Company discovered a ‘very curious plate of metal’ during road construction. It appears that the helmet was deliberately prepared for deposition and buried at a depth of c30 cm close to a stream. Examination by the authors suggests that this was a high value item that had been repaired many times. Experimental evidence suggests that the decoration alone required approximately 16 h to fashion.     

“It would be impossible to estimate the value of these works...” Mass Production at Springfield Armory during the American Civil War

The U.S. Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, rarely appears in Civil War histories except perhaps as an unexplained statistical wonder. By late 1863, the Armory was the largest single supplier of rifles to Union forces. Springfield Armory workers out-produced over thirty American contractors, making more Army rifles at less cost while providing contractors with gauges, inspectors, and models, even though there were significant wartime private-sector mechanical innovations. This article identifies and explains the factors in the Armory’s success, provides context on contemporary American arms production and rifle models, and argues that the Armory’s methods and performance were among the first if not the first example of mass production in American small arms manufacture. The relative brevity of the Civil War episode, and the fact that it was not repeated in any comparable way at the Armory until World War II, has obscured its significance in American manufacturing history.     

单兵信息系统协同作战技术研究

协同作战是提高体系作战能力,发挥整体作战效能的关键,针对单兵班组在未来信息化条件下单兵作战单元协同作战的协同模式、协同流程、协同策略,协同指挥、协同作战效能评估等方面进行阐释,对未来单兵信息系统班组协同作战技术研究具有一定的指导意义。     

Many‐server loss models with non‐poisson time‐varying arrivals

This article proposes an approximation for the blocking probability in a many‐server loss model with a non‐Poisson time‐varying arrival process and flexible staffing (number of servers) and shows that it can be used to set staffing levels to stabilize the time‐varying blocking probability at a target level. Because the blocking probabilities necessarily change dramatically after each staffing change, we randomize the time of each staffing change about the planned time. We apply simulation to show that (i) the blocking probabilities cannot be stabilized without some form of randomization, (ii) the new staffing algorithm with randomiation can stabilize blocking probabilities at target levels and (iii) the required staffing can be quite different when the Poisson assumption is dropped. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 64: 177–202, 2017     

Arms export controls and emerging domestic producers†

The possibility of domestic production raises a difficulty for arms export control measures, since embargoes, by raising the effective price of imports, increase the incentive for domestic production. We address this issue by developing a partial equilibrium model of the international arms market We compare three arms export regimes involving the exporters of high‐technology arms, with a particular focus on the effect of emerging domestic production: laissez‐faire trade, the uncoordinated regulation of exports and a producer cartel consisting of coordinated regulation. The main conclusion is that the possibility of domestic production significantly changes the nature of these stylized export regimes.