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作者：Shi, Ye; Yu, Hu; Yu, Yugang; Yue, Xiaohang
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
摘要：Motivated by a realworld practice of a China Post sortation center, this study considers the deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) technology to improve the efficiency of a human-robot hybrid sortation system. In this system, IoT technology enables responsive adjustment of the manual capacity to alleviate the congestion effect of increasing parcel flow on robotic sorting efficiency. We begin with a predictive analysis of a real-life dataset to quantify the congestion effect on robotic sorting...
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作者：Zhang, XiaoLi; de Vries, Jelle; de Koster, Rene; Liu, ChenGuang
作者单位：Fuzhou University; Northwestern Polytechnical University; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Many operations are characterized by a trade-off between speed and quality. This calls for an exploration of effective strategies to balance the two metrics. This study investigates the separate and joint effect of quantity and quality feedback on both performance metrics in order picking. We collected data from two real-effort experiments with in total 212 participants, who conducted an order picking task in an experimental warehouse. The results of the main experiment show that giving only q...
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作者：Mayo, Kevin; Ball, George; Mills, Alex
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
摘要：Firms dread product recalls. Consequently, firm leaders may take steps to avoid recalls when possible, or to avoid the blame for them when there is someone else to blame. We analyze how the appointment of a new chief executive officer (CEO) for a firm in the consumer product industry influences the hazard of subsequent recalls initiated by that firm. Using 25 years of consumer product industry data, including 125 publicly traded firms that experienced 307 new CEOs and 584 voluntary recalls fro...
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作者：Wang, Zheng; Sheu, Jiuh-Biing; Teo, Chung-Piaw; Xue, Guiqin
作者单位：Dalian Maritime University; National Taiwan University; National University of Singapore; National University of Singapore
摘要：Intelligent part-to-picker systems are spreading across a broad range of industries as preferred solutions for agile order fulfillment, wherein mobile racks are carried by robots and moved to stations where human pickers can pick items from them. Such systems raise the challenge of designing good work schedules for human pickers; they also give rise to a new class of operational scheduling problems in human-robot coordinated order picking systems. This work studies the problem of finding a sui...
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作者：Joglekar, Nitin; Anderson, Edward G. Jr Jr; Lee, Kyungmin (Brad); Parker, Geoffrey; Settanni, Ettore; Srai, Jagjit Singh
作者单位：Boston University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; American University; Dartmouth College; University of Cambridge
摘要：Investments in infrastructure platforms aim to enhance supply chain performance. We build on network-based models of platform growth to characterize configurations of digital and physical supply chain infrastructure. We define cross-platform effect as the value accrued by a platform on one side of a multiplatform configuration as capability for the opposite side platform evolves. We posit that aligning cross-platform effect across digital and physical infrastructure enhances system outcomes. O...
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作者：Singhal, Kalyan; Singhal, Jaya
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Baltimore
摘要：Long-term vision depends on history, and on history alone. Scholarship in technology, manufacturing, and operations management is incomplete without a knowledge of history. In chronicling the history of technology, knowledge, and manufacturing, we have traced the remarkable continuity in the evolution of humans from hominins to homo sapiens, in the migration of homo sapiens from Africa to the furthest reaches of the world, and in the rise of civilizations and industrialization driven by agricu...
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作者：Lugovoi, Ivan; Andritsos, Dimitrios A.; Senot, Claire
作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Tulane University
摘要：The accumulation of experience that occurs with production is likely to impact an organization's ability to develop manufacturing process innovations. However, how different types of manufacturing experience relate to the characteristics of an organization's process innovation output is an open question. In this study, we investigate how a firm's accumulated related and unrelated manufacturing experiences are associated with this firm's ability to innovate its production methods. To characteri...
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作者：Miao, Sentao; Chen, Xi; Chao, Xiuli; Liu, Jiaxi; Zhang, Yidong
作者单位：McGill University; New York University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Amazon.com; Alibaba Group
摘要：We consider a context-based dynamic pricing problem of online products, which have low sales. Sales data from Alibaba, a major global online retailer, illustrate the prevalence of low-sale products. For these products, existing single-product dynamic pricing algorithms do not work well due to insufficient data samples. To address this challenge, we propose pricing policies that concurrently perform clustering over product demand and set individual pricing decisions on the fly. By clustering da...
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作者：Ergun-Sahin, Busra; Gunes, Evrim Didem; Kocabiyikoglu, Ayse; Keskin, Ahmet
作者单位：Koc University; Sabanci University; Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University
摘要：We study the relationship between workload and the test ordering behavior of physicians in an operational context where examination can be finished with a test order. We define workload in two forms: the unfinished workload, that is, the work waiting to be completed, and the finished workload, that is, the already completed work since the beginning of the work day. We investigate their effect on the probability of a test order and the number of tests ordered for a patient who receives a test o...
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作者：Tunc, Sait; Alagoz, Oguzhan; Burnside, Elizabeth S.
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Overdiagnosis of breast cancer, defined as diagnosing a cancer that would otherwise not cause symptoms or death in a patient's lifetime, costs U.S. health care system over $1.2 billion annually. Overdiagnosis rates, estimated to be around 10%-40%, may be reduced if indolent breast findings can be identified and followed with noninvasive imaging rather than biopsy. However, there are no validated guidelines for radiologists to decide when to choose imaging options recognizing cancer grades and ...
