Allocation of quality improvement targets based on investments in learning

Purchased materials often account for more than 50% of a manufacturer's product nonconformance cost. A common strategy for reducing such costs is to allocate periodic quality improvement targets to suppliers of such materials. Improvement target allocations are often accomplished via ad hoc methods such as prescribing a fixed, across‐the‐board percentage improvement for all suppliers, which, however, may not be the most effective or efficient approach for allocating improvement targets. We propose a formal modeling and optimization approach for assessing quality improvement targets for suppliers, based on process variance reduction. In our models, a manufacturer has multiple product performance measures that are linear functions of a common set of design variables (factors), each of which is an output from an independent supplier's process. We assume that a manufacturer's quality improvement is a result of reductions in supplier process variances, obtained through learning and experience, which require appropriate investments by both the manufacturer and suppliers. Three learning investment (cost) models for achieving a given learning rate are used to determine the allocations that minimize expected costs for both the supplier and manufacturer and to assess the sensitivity of investment in learning on the allocation of quality improvement targets. Solutions for determining optimal learning rates, and concomitant quality improvement targets are derived for each learning investment function. We also account for the risk that a supplier may not achieve a targeted learning rate for quality improvements. An extensive computational study is conducted to investigate the differences between optimal variance allocations and a fixed percentage allocation. These differences are examined with respect to (i) variance improvement targets and (ii) total expected cost. For certain types of learning investment models, the results suggest that orders of magnitude differences in variance allocations and expected total costs occur between optimal allocations and those arrived at via the commonly used rule of fixed percentage allocations. However, for learning investments characterized by a quadratic function, there is surprisingly close agreement with an “across‐the‐board” allocation of 20% quality improvement targets. © John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 48: 684–709, 2001     

CFRP加固混凝土柱抗震性能的有限元分析

为验证CFRP抗震加固方法的有效性,通过介绍其抗震加固的机理,利用有限元软件ANSYS模拟轴向压力与单向及双向地震往复荷载耦合作用下其加固混凝土柱的抗震性能,并与未加固柱进行对比,论证了其对混凝土柱抗震性能提高的有效性,从而为试验及加固工程施工提供了有效的理论分析方法。     

基于深度学习的MPSK信号调制识别

为了有效实现信号调制方式的智能识别,提出基于深度学习的多进制相移键控(Multiple Phase Shift Keying, MPSK)信号调制识别方法。分析接收MPSK信号的循环谱,并通过提取MPSK信号循环谱的等高图获得二维特征信息,利用深度学习中的卷积神经网络对二维特征进行训练,使用测试样本对所设计的调制识别方法的有效性进行验证。仿真结果表明,所提方法具有良好的识别性能。     

采用区分性幅相联合字典学习的低截获概率信号分离方法

为解决采用字典学习的信号分离方法存在的相位信息缺失和子字典交叉表示问题,提出一种区分性幅相联合字典学习方法。该方法针对相位信息缺失问题,构建了幅相联合字典模型;针对混合信号在联合字典上投影时存在的交叉表示问题,基于区分性字典学习思想提出在字典学习过程目标函数中加入交叉表示抑制项。仿真结果表明：幅相联合字典能够充分表示典型低截获概率信号的幅相信息,交叉表示抑制项能有效抑制信号间的交叉表示,算法具有良好的分离性能。     

Lot sizing with learning and forgetting in setups: Analytical results and insights

This article considers the dynamic lot sizing problem when there is learning and forgetting in setups. Learning in setups takes place with repetition when additional setups are made and forgetting takes place when there is a break between two successive setups. We allow the amount forgotten over a break to depend both on the length of the break and the amount of learning at the beginning of the break. The learning and forgetting functions we use are realistic. We present several analytical results and use these in developing computationally efficient algorithms for solving the problem. Some decision/forecast horizon results are also developed, and finally we present managerial insights based on our computational results. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 63: 93–108, 2016     

Strategy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

ABSTRACT

We argue that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will, in the very near future, have a profound impact on the conduct of strategy and will be disruptive of existing power balances. To do so, we review the psychological foundations of strategy and explore the ways in which AI will impact human decision-making. We then review current and evolving capabilities in ‘narrow’, modular AI that is optimised to perform in a particular environment, and explore its military potential. Lastly, we look ahead to the more distant prospect of a general AI.     

Optimal production ramp-up in the smartphone manufacturing industry

Motivated by challenges in the smartphone manufacturing industry, we develop a dynamic production ramp-up model that can be applied to economically satisfy nonstationary demand for short-life-cycle products by high-tech companies. Due to shorter life cycles and more rapid evolution of smartphones, production ramp-up has been increasingly critical to the success of a new smartphone. In the production ramp-up, the key challenge is to match the increasing capacity to nonstationary demand. The high-tech smartphone manufacturers are urged to jointly consider the effect of increasing capacity and decreasing demand. We study the production planning problem using a high-dimensional Markov decision process (MDP) model to characterize the production ramp-up. To address the curse of dimensionality, we refine Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) algorithm and theoretically analyze its convergence and computational complexity. In a real case study, we find that the MDP model achieves revenue improvement by stopping producing the existing product earlier than the benchmark policy. In synthetic instances, we validate that the proposed MCTS algorithm saves computation time without loss of solution quality compared with traditional value iteration algorithm. As part of the Lenovo production solution, our MDP model enables high-tech smartphone manufacturers to better plan the production ramp-up.     

基于深度神经网络的OFDM系统IQ不平衡补偿技术

正交频分复用(OFDM)是现代移动通信中一项重要的物理层通信技术,并且OFDM系统要求子载波间严格正交。然而在实际系统中,振荡器和滤波器等器件的非理想特性会导致同相正交(In-phase and Quadrature-phase,IQ)不平衡,从而破坏子载波的正交性,严重影响OFDM系统的性能。本文研究了IQ不平衡对OFDM系统的影响,提出了基于并联深度神经网络的IQ不平衡补偿技术。该算法利用了深度神经网络不依赖于模型的特点,直接从接收到的频域信号恢复原输入信号的二进制序列,并利用IQ不平衡的干扰信号来自镜像子载波的先验知识来初始化神经网络,加快其网络优化的收敛速度。仿真结果表明,该算法能有效地补偿IQ不平衡失真,并且在幅度和相位失真的补偿上,其性能都优于传统的导频的最小二乘（LS）估计补偿IQ不平衡的算法,证明了深度学习方法解决物理层问题的优越性。     

0.13 μm标准CMOS工艺的高可靠流水线模数转换器

针对航空航天电子系统对高性能模数转换器的需求,采用0. 13μm标准互补金属氧化物半导体工艺,设计可以在极端温度和空间辐射环境中稳定可靠工作的12位分辨率、50 MS/s采样率的流水线模数转换器。通过采用无采样保持电路以及抗辐射电路和版图加固等技术,在减小功耗的同时有效地削弱总剂量辐射效应的影响。测试结果表明:在-55～125℃温度范围内以及150 krad(Si)的总剂量辐照条件下,得到大于64 dB的信噪比、大于73. 5 dB的无杂散动态范围和最大0. 22 dB的微分非线性。     

浅谈公安现役院校教育改革与学员个性发展

随着公安教育改革的不断深入,注重学员个性发展已成为公安教育改革的热点问题。公安现役院校学员个性化发展应从优化人才培养方案、创新管理体制、强化学员自主学习能力等方面进行探讨,以促进学员个性发展。