Country: United States

Found 17049 papers in total
On the solution of multifactor nonlinear problems of optimal planning
1990,
Organizing the production of a new product involves the necessity of determining the...
Interactive process quality improvement
1991,
An ongoing production processes produces defective parts at random intervals. Each...
Competitive strategies for two firms with asymmetric production cost structures
1991,
The authors model joint production-marketing strategies for two firms with asymmetric...
Production lot sizing with machine breakdowns
1992,
Economic lot sizing and batching models often assume reliable manufacturing...
PERT duration times: Mathematics or MBO?
1991,
The authors examine and compare the origins and mechanics of program evaluation and...
Scheduling of project networks by job assignment
1991,
A recurring problem in project management involves the allocation of scarce resources...
The minimum common-cycle algorithm for cyclic scheduling of two material handling hoists with time window constraints
1991,
The problem of cyclic scheduling of two hoists is defined as follows. There are...
Eureka: A hybrid system for assembly line balancing
1992,
Numerous methods have been proposed for solution of the simple assembly line balancing...
New bounds for the identical parallel processor weighted flow time problem
1992,
In 1964, Eastman, Even, and Isaacs (EEI) presented a polynomial time lower bound for...
Performance evaluation of the LDR and the PSH with forecast errors
1990,
Despite its ability to produce optimal solutions, the Linear Decision Rule (LDR) has...
Economic justification of group technology software: Documentation and analysis of current practices
1990,
Group technology (GT) software represents a type of information systems that support...
Development of a production planning and control system for a leaf-spring manufacturing facility
1991,
This production planning and control system was developed for a real-life situation-a...
MRP, MRP II, OPT, JIT, and CIM-Succession, evolution, or necessary combination
1991,
One way for a company to achieve success is through the use of a combination of...
Buffer management: A diagnostic tool for production control
1991,
Buffer management serves as the control extension to the drum-buffer-rope shop floor...
Aggregate production planning in practice
1991,
Practitioner use of aggregate production planning (AP) models is surveyed through the...
Understanding and applying constraint management in today’s manufacturing environments
1991,
Perhaps the two most popular manufacturing systems in the eary 1980s were JIT and OPT....
Logistics in process industries: Is it a specific problem?
1991,
To determine the logistic characteristics of their production system, individual...
Developing production schedules which balance part usage and smooth production loads for just-in-time production systems
1991,
A mixed-model multilevel manufacturing facility running under a just-in-time (JIT)...
JIT in distribution and warehousing
1991,
Much has been written about the application of JIT principles to manufacturing...
Thriving on interdependence: The key to JIT implementation
1991,
Since Japanese firms have outperformed their American and European rivals in a range...
Selecting among MRP lot-sizing methods for purchased components when the planning horizon is limited
1991,
MRP implementations with numerous bill-of-material levels often result in limited...
Chaining the beast: Limiting the damage of long MRP run times with postmortem and pro forma analyses
1991,
Unpredicted long MRP run times can cost corporations thousands of dollars in lost...
Homotopy continuation methods for nonlinear complementarity problems
1991,
A complementarity problem with a continuous mapping f from R n into itself can be...
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