Pilatus improved parts-on-time while cutting spare inventory 21%
Pilatus's aircraft-on-ground critical parts needed faster delivery; a (Q,R) stocking model lifted on-time service and cut the value of parts held by 21%.
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3,236 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEWyeth's stretch-blow PET bottle held soda pressure without bursting.
Nathaniel Wyeth stretched and blew polyethylene terephthalate to make a light bottle that held carbonation and passed FDA purity.
Ler o casoSkyCool cools below ambient by radiating heat through the sky window to deep space
A seven-layer film reflects 97% of sunlight and radiates heat to the cold sky, cooling below ambient with no electricity.
Ler o casoOCP modeled its whole phosphate chain, from mine to port, as one problem
OCP built a multi-period mixed-integer model spanning mines, plants, inventory and ports, adding about $400 million a year in profit.
Ler o casoNorfolk Southern sized its locomotive fleet with an optimizing simulator.
Norfolk Southern used approximate dynamic programming to plan locomotive fleet size and mix, a balance of simulation and optimization.
Ler o casoMPEG folded Apple's QuickTime into one ISO container and MP4 became the video file
MP4's ISO base media file format stores timed audio and video in self-describing boxes, so one small file plays on practically any device.
Ler o casoMcKesson used an OR scenario model, freeing over $1B of committed capital.
IBM Research built SCSM for McKesson to model its whole pharmaceutical supply chain and link it to P&L, helping cut committed capital by more than $1B.
Ler o casoMaersk watches every reefer so a bad cargo is caught early
Remote Container Management streams temperature, humidity and O2/CO2 from each reefer so a shipment can be saved before it spoils.
Ler o casoMail Rail moved London's post on driverless trains under the streets
Royal Mail built a 6.5-mile driverless underground railway so letters crossed congested London in minutes.
Ler o casoA standard flower box raised Kenya-to-Amsterdam air pallet loads 15%
The Holland Flower Alliance fixed the wasted space between flower boxes to make precious air cargo carry more and arrive fresher.
Ler o casoJeppesen's 100k+ charts swamped production; OR cut cost ~10% and profit +24%.
Jeppesen used optimization for production planning and technology investment, turning a chart backlog into a new OR group.
Ler o casoIFCO rented the crate, not the box, so fresh produce stopped using cardboard
IFCO owns a pool of reusable plastic crates it washes, repairs and recirculates, letting growers and retailers stop buying single-use cardboard.
Ler o casoIBM's analytics raised its big-services bid win rate, worth about $350M.
IBM Research built tools that read RFPs, cost and price bids, and track the pipeline, raising IBM's win rate on multimillion-dollar service deals.
Ler o casoHewlett-Packard cut product complexity with OR, adding $500 million.
HP used ROI screening and a maximum-flow revenue-coverage tool to trim an over-broad product portfolio, adding over $500 million in profit.
Ler o casoFedEx built its network on operations research from its first flights.
Federal Express used OR to build origin-destination, simulation and route models that guided its network and fleet decisions from 1973.
Ler o casoDunlop put air inside a tyre so it cushioned itself
John Boyd Dunlop wrapped his son's tricycle wheels in an air-filled rubber tube so compressed air, not rubber, absorbed the bumps.
Ler o casoCochrane's dishwasher held dishes in racks and sprayed them, not scrubbed them.
Josephine Cochrane built a machine that rained hot soapy water on dishes in wire compartments, so nothing broke and no hands were needed.
Ler o casoDHL's optimizer decides what to ship itself vs outsource, saving $98.6m a year.
DHL Supply Chain's Transportation Network Optimizer combines routing with outsourcing, fleet sizing and bidding logic, cutting cost and half a megaton of CO2.
Ler o casoDeere's C&CE cut $890M of inventory and lifted on-time shipments to 92%.
Deere & Company set weekly inventory targets with multiechelon optimisation to pull orders, cutting inventory by $890M and lifting on-time shipments to 92%.
Ler o casoThe Czech central bank made the koruna its policy tool to beat deflation.
With rates at zero, the CNB weakened the crown toward a 27-per-euro floor in 2013, importing inflation and hitting its target.
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