Additive manufacturing (AM), originally used for prototyping, is increasingly adopted for custom final part production across different industries. This usage brings new manufacturing opportunities for mass customization (MC). However, printing speed and production volume are two barriers to AM...

Manufacturers that utilize capacitated flexible resources to produce a variety of products are often exposed to large mismatches between supply and demand due to some irregularities in their demand patterns. These irregularities arise from (1) uncertainty about the number of orders received from...

The timing of China’s and India’s demographic transitions and the implications of alternative fertility scenarios are here explored using a global economic model incorporating full demographic behavior and measures of dependency that include the working aged and those of working age who do...

This paper is concerned with the theoretical properties of demand for capital maintenance services. To this end, we consider two investment problems incorporating maintenance services and we analyse their steady state equilibria. At first, we shwo that if no variable capital utilization rate is...

Post Keynesian macrodynamic models make various assumptions about the normal rate of capacity utilization. Those rooted in the Classical and neo-Keynesian traditions assume the normal rate is fixed, whereas Kaleckian models treat it as a variable that is endogenous to the actual rate of capacity...

Post Keynesian macrodynamic models make various assumptions about the normal rate of capacity utilization. Those rooted in the Classical and neo-Keynesian traditions assume the normal rate is fixed, whereas Kaleckian models treat it as a variable that is endogenous to the actual rate of capacity...