新形势下对进一步加强消防工作的几点思考

消防工作是国民经济和社会发展的重要组成部分,是发展社会主义市场经济不可缺少的保障条件。作为与经济发展密切相关的公安消防部门,如何更好地适应经济发展的需要,实现消防工作跨越式发展,是当前公安消防部门需要深入研究探索的一个重要课题。     

电缆热老化寿命预测

利用热分析技术,对电缆绝缘材料的热老化寿命进行了研究,得到了电缆绝缘材料热老化寿命的计算公式。在不同载流量下,对电缆绝缘材料热老化寿命进行了比较,给出了电缆热老化寿命与载流量的函数关系,为电流致热型线缆火灾的防治提供了基础数据。     

配电系统谐波电流火灾隐患研究

随着人民生活水平的提高,非线性用电设备大量使用,这方便和提高了人们的生活质量,但非线性负载会给三相供电线路注入谐波电流,引发中性线过载。从配电系统谐波电流的产生、危害入手,应用Fourier级数分解方法对非正弦周期电流进行理论分析,得出三次谐波及其奇数倍谐波会在中性线产生叠加效应,再加上三相负载不平衡,造成中性线过载,进而引发火灾事故的结论。     

舰船磁性处理中的电流幅值与消磁电流分段衰减方法

针对消磁电流工作制式的合理性问题,通过对铁磁材料的磁性能、临界衰减指数和铁磁物质的磁化特点的分析,提出了将磁化曲线膝点处的磁场作为消磁电流磁场的初始幅值,消磁电流采取分段衰减的方法作为新的消磁电流工作制式.实际应用证明,这种通电制式可节省大量能耗和时间.     

接近速度和放电电压对空气式静电放电参数的影响

对影响空气式静电放电的一个重要因素——电弧结构进行了理论分析。在此基础上,利用新研制成功的静电放电模拟测试系统,分析了接近速度和放电电压对静电放电电流峰值、上升时间以及感应电压峰-峰值的影响。试验得出,在放电电压一定的情况下,放电电流峰值和感应电压峰-峰值随接近速度的增大而增大;上升时间随接近速度的增大而减小。这些试验结果为建立静电放电抗扰度试验新方法提供了依据。     

一种北斗／CDMA导航系统数据融合的联邦卡尔曼滤波算法

北斗卫星与CDMA无线网络定位相结合的组合导航系统可以广泛应用于军事和民用领域,而有效进行数据融合是提高北斗/CDMA组合导航系统定位精度的关键.针对北斗/CDMA组合导航系统的特点,提出了一种基于联邦卡尔曼滤波的北斗/CDMA导航数据融合算法.算法采用机动目标的"当前"统计模型,分别建立了北斗定位系统和CDMA定位系统的状态方程,通过对相应定位参数进行滤波处理,提高了北斗/CDMA导航系统的定位精度.     

Quality risk in outsourcing: Noncontractible product quality and private quality cost information

This article addresses the concept of quality risk in outsourcing. Recent trends in outsourcing extend a contract manufacturer's (CM's) responsibility to several functional areas, such as research and development and design in addition to manufacturing. This trend enables an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to focus on sales and pricing of its product. However, increasing CM responsibilities also suggest that the OEM's product quality is mainly determined by its CM. We identify two factors that cause quality risk in this outsourcing relationship. First, the CM and the OEM may not be able to contract on quality; second, the OEM may not know the cost of quality to the CM. We characterize the effects of these two quality risk factors on the firms' profits and on the resulting product quality. We determine how the OEM's pricing strategy affects quality risk. We show, for example, that the effect of noncontractible quality is higher than the effect of private quality cost information when the OEM sets the sales price after observing the product's quality. We also show that committing to a sales price mitigates the adverse effect of quality risk. To obtain these results, we develop and analyze a three‐stage decision model. This model is also used to understand the impact of recent information technologies on profits and product quality. For example, we provide a decision tree that an OEM can use in deciding whether to invest in an enterprise‐wide quality management system that enables accounting of quality‐related activities across the supply chain. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 2009     

A two‐echelon inventory‐location problem with service considerations

We study the problem of designing a two‐echelon spare parts inventory system consisting of a central plant and a number of service centers each serving a set of customers with stochastic demand. Processing and storage capacities at both levels of facilities are limited. The manufacturing process is modeled as a queuing system at the plant. The goal is to optimize the base‐stock levels at both echelons, the location of service centers, and the allocation of customers to centers simultaneously, subject to service constraints. A mixed integer nonlinear programming model (MINLP) is formulated to minimize the total expected cost of the system. The problem is NP‐hard and a Lagrangian heuristic is proposed. We present computational results and discuss the trade‐off between cost and service. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 2009     

Free riding in a multi‐channel supply chain

Free riding in a multichannel supply chain occurs when one retail channel engages in the customer service activities necessary to sell a product, while another channel benefits from those activities by making the final sale. Although free riding is, in general, considered to have a negative impact on supply chain performance, certain recent industry practices suggest an opposite view: a manufacturer may purposely induce free riding by setting up a high‐cost, customer service‐oriented direct store to allow consumers to experience the product, anticipating their purchase at a retail store. This article examines how the free riding phenomenon affects a manufacturer's supply chain structure decision when there are fixed plus incremental variable costs for operating the direct store. We consider factors such as the effort required to find and buy the product at a retail store after visiting the direct store, the existence of competing products in the market, and the extent of consumer need to obtain direct‐store service. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2009     

To wait or not to wait: Optimal ordering under lead time uncertainty and forecast updating

There has been a dramatic increase over the past decade in the number of firms that source finished product from overseas. Although this has reduced procurement costs, it has increased supply risk; procurement lead times are longer and are often unreliable. In deciding when and how much to order, firms must consider the lead time risk and the demand risk, i.e., the accuracy of their demand forecast. To improve the accuracy of its demand forecast, a firm may update its forecast as the selling season approaches. In this article we consider both forecast updating and lead time uncertainty. We characterize the firm's optimal procurement policy, and we prove that, with multiplicative forecast revisions, the firm's optimal procurement time is independent of the demand forecast evolution but that the optimal procurement quantity is not. This leads to a number of important managerial insights into the firm's planning process. We show that the firm becomes less sensitive to lead time variability as the forecast updating process becomes more efficient. Interestingly, a forecast‐updating firm might procure earlier than a firm with no forecast updating. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2009