Callable products for an implicit time model with dependent demands

Capacity providers such as airlines and hotels have traditionally increased revenues by practicing market segmentation and revenue management, enabling them to sell the same capacity pool to different consumers at different prices. Callable products can enhance profits and improve consumers' welfare by allowing the firm to broker capacity between consumers with different willingness to pay. A consumer who buys a callable product gives the capacity provider the right to recall capacity at a prespecified recall price. This article studies callable products in the context of the model most commonly used in industry, which handles time implicitly imposing fewer restrictions on the nature of randomness compared to the Poisson arrival process favored in academia. In the implicit time model, capacity providers set booking limits to protect capacity for future high-fare demand. Our numerical study identifies conditions where callable products result in significant gains in profits.     

EPS加工企业火灾防控探析

近年来,随着EPS相关产业迅速发展,该类场所的火灾发生率也呈逐年上升趋势。由于EPS泡沫塑料属于可燃物质,其表面易积聚静电,在生产过程中,稍有疏忽,容易引发火灾事故。分析归纳了该场所火灾的成因,就该类场所如何消除火灾隐患,防患于未然,提出了相关建议。     

微量闪点自动快速测定仪的研制

闪点是表征石油产品火灾危险性的安全指标.常规闪点测定法存在对操作者专业技能要求高,劳动强度大,无法进行连续不间断测定的缺点,影响了测定,结果的准确度和实验效率.将高压电弧、压力传感等现代分析检测技术引入石油产品闪点测定,研制了一台微量闪点自动快速测定仪.实验表明,微量闪点自动快速测定仪操作简单,试样量仅1 mL,减少了...     

Hash技术在消防产品信息检索中的应用

讨论了消防产品的身份证管理制度,针对跟踪管理系统中移动终端查询速度较慢的问题,将Hash技术应用到产品信息检索中,并对全国消防产品数据库中采集的数据进行了实验测试.实验结果表明,Hash技术用于移动终端大规模数据的检索具有简单高效的特点.     

结合实时数据产品与北斗短报文的厘米级海洋精密相对定位

针对远海精密定位的广泛需求和传统精密定位服务费用昂贵的问题,提出利用北斗短报文设备传输导航观测数据,结合实时服务数据产品,以实现海洋的低成本厘米级精密相对定位。为了克服短报文传输频率低的缺点,采用融合空间相对定位和精密单点定位两种技术来加密分钟间隔以外的坐标,避免了传统时间基线法加密坐标存在的误差累积现象。分别基于静态和动态海洋观测数据进行仿真实验,结果表明,新方法无论在水平方向还是垂直方向上,都可以实现厘米级定位,且对时间间隔不敏感。     

美国消防产品召回制度解析

消防产品召回制度是有效预防和消除消防产品缺陷可能引起的人身伤害和财产损失的行政管理制度。在汇总大量美国消防产品召回案例的基础上,介绍了美国消费品安全委员会对缺陷消防产品召回的基本模式、召回方式和程序等内容,以期能对建立符合我国国情的相应制度发挥一定的借鉴作用。     

机械产品的可靠性参数与指标

从机械产品故障的特点出发,将机械产品的可靠性区分为无故障性和耐久性,提出了相应的可靠性参数,进而分析了无故障性指标与耐久性指标的协调性,探讨了耐久性判断准则等相关问题,最后给出了无故障性与耐久性指标协调的实例。     

试论消防产品与公共安全

消防产品是事关国家和人民群众生命财产安全的公共安全产品。目前，消防产品市场秩序混乱、产品质量良莠不齐、个别消防产品标准不一致、安全类产品不安全等问题突出。加强消防产品监督管理、培育完善市场和健全监管机制刻不容缓。     

A quasi-isentropic model of a cylinder driven by aluminized explosives based on characteristic line analysis

A quasi-isentropic study on the process of driving a cylinder with aluminized explosives was carried out to examine the influence of the aluminum (Al) reaction rate on cylinder expansion and the physical parameters of the detonation products. Based on the proposed quasi-isentropic hypothesis and relevant isentropic theories, the characteristic lines of aluminized explosives driving a cylinder were analyzed, and a quasi-isentropic model was established. This model includes the variation of the cylinder wall velocity and the physical parameters of the detonation products with the Al reaction degree. Using previously reported experimental results, the quasi-isentropic model was verified to be applicative and accurate. This model was used to calculate the physical parameters for cylinder experiments with aluminized cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine explosives with 15.0 % and 30.0 % Al content. The results show that this quasi-isentropic model can be used not only to calculate the cylinder expansion rule or Al reaction degree, but also to calculate the physical parameters of the detonation products in the process of cylinder expansion. For explosives with 15.0 % and 30.0 % Al, 24.3 % and 18.5 % of the Al was found to have reacted at 33.9 μs and 34.0 μs, respectively. The difference in Al content results in different reaction intensity, occurrence time, and duration of two forms of reaction (diffusion and kinetic) between the Al powder and the detonation products; the post-detonation burning reaction between the Al powder and the detonation products prolongs the positive pressure action time, resulting in a continuous rise in temperature after detonation.     

Joint inventory and pricing decisions for perishable products with two‐period lifetime

We consider a periodic review model over a finite horizon for a perishable product with fixed lifetime equal to two review periods. The excess demand in a period is backlogged. The optimal replenishment and demand management (using price) decisions for such a product depend on the relative order of consumption of fresh and old units. We obtain insights on the structure of these decisions when the order of consumption is first‐in, first‐out and last‐in, first‐out. For the FIFO system, we also obtain bounds on both the optimal replenishment quantity as well as expected demand. We compare the FIFO system to two widely analyzed inventory systems that correspond to nonperishable and one‐period lifetime products to understand if demand management would modify our understanding of the relationship among the three systems. In a counterintuitive result, we find that it is more likely that bigger orders are placed in the FIFO system than for a nonperishable product when demand is managed. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2013