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Found 17295 papers in total
Acceptable quality level versus zero-defects: Some empirical evidence
1995,
Within the literature on quality control there is a debate between two competing views...
Expected cost comparisons for inspection and repair policies
1995,
An out of n system is down (at time , say) due to the failure of at least r of its...
Statistical analysis of deadband-deviation rules in quality control
1995,
The paper is concerned with the statistical analysis of rules designed to handle...
Tests for special causes with multivariate autocorrelated data
1995,
Runs tests for special causes are used routinely with Shewhart quality-control charts...
Measures of component importance in reliability theory
1995,
In this paper the authors survey the literature concerning the topic of measures of...
Queueing models for optimizing system availability of a flexible manufacturing system
1994,
This research investigates two maintenance float models in a flexible manufacturing...
Throughput equivalencies in fork/join queueing networks with finite buffers and general service times
1995,
The authors consider finite-buffered fork/join queueing networks under the so-called...
The efficient allocation of risk in contracts
1994,
This paper considers how project risk should be allocated between clients and...
Job shop scheduling under a non-renewable resource constraint
1994,
This paper considers the job shop scheduling problem under a discrete non-renewable...
Minimization of total absolute flow time deviation in single and multiple machine scheduling
1994,
In this note, single machine scheduling and minimizing absolute flow time deviation...
Acquiring and operationalizing worker flexibility in dual resource constrained job shops with worker transfer delays and learning losses
1994,
Although several studies within the dual resource constrained (DRC) job shop...
Batch delivery scheduling on a single machine
1994,
The problem of partitioning a set of independent and simultaneously available jobs...
Resource constrained measures in a dual constraint job shop
1994,
Over the last couple of decades scheduling in the dual constrained job shop has been...
Impact of family-based scheduling on transfer batches in a job shop manufacturing cell
1994,
Past research has shown that the performance of manufacturing cells can be improved if...
The effect of demand characteristics on labour scheduling methods
1995,
Labour scheduling heuristic methods have been applied in service operating...
An experimental investigation of scheduling non-identical, parallel processors with sequence-dependent set-up times and due dates
1995,
An experimental investigation of factors affecting the scheduling of a system of...
Machining economics with machine interference considerations
1995,
The authors present solution methods to the problem of synchronizing parallel...
A hierarchical bicriterion approach to integrated process plan selection and job shop scheduling
1995,
The job shop scheduling literature deals with problems characterized by a fixed linear...
Effective job shop scheduling through active chain manipulation
1995,
A practical yet effective heuristic algorithm is developed in this paper for solving...
Single-machine scheduling to minimize the weighted number of early and tardy agreeable jobs
1995,
The authors consider a single-machine scheduling problem in which every job has a...
Flowshop scheduling with dominant machines
1995,
This paper examines two special cases of the n- job, m- machine permutation scheduling...
Heuristics for operator scheduling in group technology cells
1995,
Heuristic approaches were devised for operator scheduling in manned Grouped Technology...
A heuristic for parallel machine scheduling with agreeable due dates to minimize the number of late jobs
1995,
Given a set of identical parallel machines and a set of jobs with different due dates...
Flow-shop scheduling with flexible processors
1995,
The authors consider a permutation flow-shop where one or more processors is flexible....
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