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.     

Oligopolistic contracting: Channel coordination under competition

We study contracts between a single retailer and multiple suppliers of two substitutable products, where suppliers have fixed capacities and present the retailer cost contracts for their supplies. After observing the contracts, the retailer decides how much capacity to purchase from each supplier, to maximize profits from the purchased capacity from the suppliers plus his possessed inventory (endowment). This is modeled as a noncooperative, nonzero‐sum game, where suppliers, or principals, move simultaneously as leaders and the retailer, the common agent, is the sole follower. We are interested in the form of the contracts in equilibrium, their effect on the total supply chain profit, and how the profit is split between the suppliers and the retailer. Under mild assumptions, we characterize the set of all equilibrium contracts and discuss all‐unit and marginal‐unit quantity discounts as special cases. We also show that the supply chain is coordinated in equilibrium with a unique profit split between the retailer and the suppliers. Each supplier's profit is equal to the marginal contribution of her capacity to supply chain profits in equilibrium. The retailer's profit is equal to the total revenue collected from the market minus the payments to the suppliers and the associated sales costs.     

防火卷帘在建筑防火设计中存在问题探讨

防火卷帘作为一种隐蔽、美观、使用便捷的阻火设施,在建筑工程消防设计中得到了广泛的应用。介绍了防火卷帘的基本性能和设置原则,指出当前防火卷帘在使用中存在的误区和产品现状,并提出严格按规范设置防火卷帘以及加强防火卷帘的产品质量管理和使用管理是解决这些问题的适用性对策。     

伪劣消防产品现状及整治对策探讨

消防水带、消防水枪、消火栓箱体、室内消火栓、钢质防火门、应急照明、疏散指示标志、灭火器等多种消防产品,不合格产品很多,存在问题严重。分析了假冒伪劣消防产品的现状,并分析了存在问题的原因,从联合治理、提高执法人员素质、健全法规制度、加大宣传力度等方面提出了整治假冒伪劣消防产品的措施,指出了在具体工作中遇到的难题。     

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。     

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。     

Designing a degradation experiment

Degradation experiments are widely used to assess the reliability of highly reliable products which are not likely to fail under the traditional life tests. In order to conduct a degradation experiment efficiently, several factors, such as the inspection frequency, the sample size, and the termination time, need to be considered carefully. These factors not only affect the experimental cost, but also affect the precision of the estimate of a product's lifetime. In this paper, we deal with the optimal design of a degradation experiment. Under the constraint that the total experimental cost does not exceed a predetermined budget, the optimal decision variables are solved by minimizing the variance of the estimated 100pth percentile of the lifetime distribution of the product. An example is provided to illustrate the proposed method. Finally, a simulation study is conducted to investigate the robustness of this proposed method. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 46: 689–706, 1999