Darwin J. Davis

  Associate Professor

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E-mail: darwin [dot] davisatudel [dot] edu

Education:

  • Ph.D. -  Indiana University, Major: Operations Management Minor: Decision Sciences, 1996
  • M.B.A. - University of Delaware, 1991 
  • B.A. - Utah State University, Major: Mathematics, 1989

Research Interests:

  • Cellular Manufacturing
  • Dual Resource Constrained Systems
  • Quality
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Mathematical Modeling
  • Simulation Modeling

Honors and Activities:

  • Decision Sciences Institute
  • American Society for Quality
  • APICS - The Association for Operations Management
  • Production & Operations Management Society

Recent Publications:

  • "Find-It-Fast Files," a case in experimental design for quality improvement, with associated teaching materials, written with Vincent A. Mabert, published in Cases in Total Quality Management, Jay H. Heizer and Jay Nathan, editors, South-Western College Publishing: 1998.
  • Lucas, James M., Davis, Darwin J., and Saniga, Erwin M. (2006). “Detecting Improvement with Shewhart Attribtute Control Charts When the Lower Control Limit is Zero,” IIE Transactions, Vol. 38, No. 8, pp. 659-669.
  • Saniga, Erwin M., McWilliams, Thomas P., Davis, Darwin J., and Lucas, James M. (2006).  “Economic Control Chart Policies for Monitoring Variables,” International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, Vol. 1, Nos. 1/2, pp. 116-138.
  • Saniga, Erwin M., McWilliams, Thomas P., Davis, Darwin J. and Lucas, James M. (2005). “Economic Advantages of CUSUM Control Charts for Variables,” Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control, H-J. Lenz and P-T Wilrich, eds, . Vol. 8, Physica Verlag,  pp. 185-198.  
  • Saniga, Erwin M., Davis, Darwin J., and Lucas, James M. (2004). “Statistical Design of Attribute Charts for Monitoring and Continuous Improvement when Count Levels are Low,”  Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control, Vol. 7.
  • Jaber, Mohamad Y., Kher, Hemant V., and Davis, Darwin J. (2003). "Countering Forgetting Through Training and Deployment," International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 85, No. 1, pp. 33-46.
  • Wagner, Bret J., Davis, Darwin J., and Kher, Hemant V. (2002). "The Production of Several Items in a Single Facility with Linearly Changing Demand Rates," Decision Sciences, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 317-346.
  • Wagner, Bret J. and Davis, Darwin J. (2002). "A Search Heuristic for the Sequence-Dependent Economic Lot Scheduling Problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 141, No. 1, pp. 133-146.
  • McWilliams, Thomas P., Saniga, Erwin M. and Davis, Darwin J. (2001). "On the Design of Single Sample Acceptance Sampling Plans," Economic Quality Control, Vol. 16, No 2, pp. 193-198.
  • Wagner, Bret J. and Davis, Darwin J. (2001). "Discrete Sequential Search with Group Activities," Decision Sciences, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 557-573.  
  • McWilliams, Thomas P., Saniga, Erwin M. and Davis, Darwin J. (2001), "Economic-Statistical Design of and R Charts or  and S Charts," Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 234-241.
  • Davis, Darwin J. and Kher, Hemant V. (2006), “Design for Supply Chain Responsiveness,” presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Saniga, Erwin M., McWilliams, Thomas P., Davis, Darwin J. and Lucas, James M. (2004), “Economic advantages of CUSUM Control Charts for Variables,” Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Statistical Quality Control, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.  
  • Saniga, Erwin M., Davis, Darwin J. and Lucas, James M. (2003, 2004), “Using Shewhart and CUSUM Control Charts for Diagnosis with Count Data in a Vendor Certification Study,” presented at The Free University of Berlin, Institute for Statistics and Mathematical Economics Seminar Series (October 30, 2003) and the Baltimore Section of the American Society for Quality (January 13, 2004).
  •  Saniga, Erwin M., Lucas, James M., Davis, Darwin J. (2002), "A Comparison of Shewhart and CUSUM Methods for Diagnosis in a Vendor Certification Study," presented at the Fall Technical Conference of the American Statistical Association and the American Society for Quality in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Saniga, Erwin M., Davis, Darwin J., and Lucas, James M. (2001), "Statistical Design of Attribute Charts for Monitoring and Continuous Improvement When Count Levels are Small," Proceedings of the VIIth International Workshop on Intelligent Statistical Quality Control, Waterloo, Canada.
  • Jaber, Mohamad Y., Kher, Hemant V., and Davis, Darwin J. (2001), "Worker Training in the Presence of Learning and Forgetting," Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Production Management, Quebec, Canada, Vol. 1, pp. 101-111.
  • Kher, Hemant V., Davis, Darwin J., and Wagner, Bret J. (2001), "Worker Flexibility and Staffing Levels in the Presence of Workload Imbalances," DSI Conference Proceedings.

 

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