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Degradation mode and criticality analysis based on product usage data
Over the last decade, a rapid development of internet, wireless mobile telecommunication, and product identification technologies make whole product life cycle visible and controllable, which can improve several operational issues over the whole product li ...
Springer London Ltd2015On the optimal frequency of multiple generation product introductions
This paper considers a firm that introduces multiple generations of a product to the market at regular intervals. We assume that the firm has only a single production generation in the market at any time. To maximize the total profit within a given plannin ...
2015A Methodology for Holistic Lifecycle Approach as Decision Support System for Closed-loop Lifecycle Management
Sustainability of their products and practices provides companies with a competitive set of methods and tools to maintain, improve and expand customer and supplier relationships and to ensure access to strategic markets. Companies pay a lot of attention to ...
EPFL2015Financing Investment: The choice between bonds and bank loans
We build a model of investment and financing decisions to study the choice between bonds and bank loans in a firm's marginal financing decision and its effects on corporate investment. We show that firms with more growth options, with higher bargaining pow ...
2015Reduction and Abstraction Techniques for BIP
Simon Bliudze, Mohammad Noureddine
Reduction and abstraction techniques have been proposed to address the state space explosion problem in verification. In this paper, we present reduction and abstraction techniques for component-based systems modeled in BIP (Behavior, Interaction and Prior ...
Springer2014Joint product assortment, inventory and price optimization to attract loyal and non-loyal customers
Ralf Seifert, Jean-Sébastien Tancrez, Argyro Katsifou
In this paper, we analyze the emerging retail practice of carrying a combined product assortment consisting of both regular "standard" products and more fashionable and short-lived "special" products. The purpose of this practice is to increase store traff ...
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014The influence of industry downturns on the propensity of product versus process innovation
Christopher Tucci, Cristiano Zazzara
This article sheds light on how industry fluctuations affect firms' propensity to innovate. We test two seemingly conflicting arguments that suggest how firms are more or less inclined to engage in innovation activities during industry fluctuations. By stu ...
Oxford University Press2014Inventory Management with Working Capital Restrictions
Cristopher Ariel Zeballos Avila
Working capital restrictions can have disruptive effects on the coordination of the operations and finances of a company. Working capital restrictions may limit the inventory ordering power, reduce revenues, and increase the use of high premium debt. It ma ...
EPFL2013Product relationships management enabler for concurrent engineering and product lifecycle management
The current competitive industrial context requires more flexible, intelligent and compact product lifecycles, especially in the product development process where several lifecycle issues have to be considered, so as to deliver lifecycle oriented products. ...
Elsevier2013Modeling behavior to support economical decisions
Prof Bierlaire will present the powerful methods of Discrete Choice Analysis that are used in forecasting human behaviour to predict, among others, the demand for a new product under alternative pricing strategies. From individual behaviors, such technique ...
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