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Ahmedabad regional passport office: rapid response time by process redesign
(2003-10-21)
If all your documents are in order, you should get your fresh passport in five weeks. If you
already hold a passport, then your passport should be re-issued in one week. In case of
damaged or lost passports (except in ...
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd: Diagnosis
(2003-10-22)
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL)
embarked upon a major change initiative towards
the end of 1996. It planned an enterprise-wide
integration through Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP). The objectives were to ...
Probabilistic analysis of a two-unit stand by redundant system with finite repair capacity
(1980-09-20)
Expressions for the operating characteristics of a two-unit standby redundant repairable system with finite repair capacity are obtained.
Blood bank inventory management in India
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2014)
In this paper we provide an overview of the recent contributions in the area of blood bank inventory management and relate them to the challenges in the Indian context. We study the current blood-banking scenario in India ...
At the helm: a memoir
(SAGE Publications, 2014)
This review focuses on the contributions made by VK in the three large PSUs. To provide a detailed background to the reader, the initiatives and the change management agenda at BHEL, MUL, and SAIL are summarized. The review ...
A combined age-and-stock-based policy for ordering blood units in hospital blood banks
(International Transactions in Operational Research, 2015)
This paper analyses the performance of an ordering policy for hospital blood banks (HBBs) that takes into account the information regarding the on-hand stock along with the remaining life of blood products. The blood items ...
Analysis of an order-up-to-level policy for perishables with random issuing
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2016)
Much of the research in perishable items inventory management has focused on the first-in-first-out issue process. However, motivated by the technical characteristics of the blood unit issue process, we model an order-up-to-level ...
Transient analysis of multiple unit reliability systems
(2010-03-14)
The 'inverted-U' relationship between stress and performance is well-known. It is reasonable to assume a similar relationship between stress and creativity. However, very little is known about the reverse relationship; the ...
Stochastic analysis of a dependent parallel system
(1993-10-01)
This article discusses the stochastic behaviour of a two-unit parallel redundant repairable
system with statistically dependent units. Important performance measures for the system, namely
reliability, mean time to system ...
Mangalore chemicals and fertilizers limited: strategic renewal
(2003-10-22)
DP Mehta, the Managing Director (MD) of Mangalore
Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited (MCFL) gleaned over the
half-yearly financial results for the year 2001–2002. He was
pleased that MCFL, which was referred to the Board ...