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It is very common for patients to face a long journey after the first physician visit in many emergency service care models. This affects the service quality of accident and emergency departments (AEDs). In this study, we developed discrete-event simulation models to mimic the complex health service system of a 24-hour AED in Hong Kong. We assessed how changing the number of emergency department physicians...
New Product Development (NPD) is a crucial process to maintain the competitiveness of a company in an ever changing market. In the process of developing new products of a high level of innovation, there are various types of risks, which should be properly identified, systematically analyzed, modeled, evaluated and effectively controlled. In this paper, the Bayesian Network (BN) method will be investigated...
It is widely acknowledged that current industry is more than ever obliged to improve its product design and development strategy according to the increasing pressure of product innovation and complexity, the changing market demands and increasing level of customer awareness. Due to the complex development cycle, the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) has begun to adopt supplier integration into...
Since the 1980s many Hong Kong toy companies have transferred their manufacturing operations to China in order to take advantage of not only low labor and land costs, but also a sufficient labor force, a situation which is difficult to obtain in Hong Kong. Nowadays, many indigenous Chinese toy companies are well developed which can pose a threat to Hong Kong toy companies, particularly in price. In...
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