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Abbreviations
MS
Management Science
M&S
Modeling and Simulation
MTTF
Meantime to Failure
MTTR
Meantime to Repair
NLP
Nonlinear Programming
ODE
Ordinary Differential Equation
OEE
Overall Equipment Effectiveness
OM
Operations Management
OR
Operations Research
OTC
Over the Counter
PDE
Partial Differential Equation
PLC
Programmable Logic Controller
PSO
Particle Swarm Optimization
QP
Quadratic Programming
RNN
Recurrent Neural Network
ROI
Return of Investment
SA
Simulated Annealing
SCM
Supply Chain Management
SD
System Dynamics