Journal: International Journal of Production Research

Found 2417 papers in total
Control charts based on grouped observations
1994,
It is often more economical to classify a continuous quality characteristic into...
An evaluation of the Taguchi method for on-line quality control
1994,
The underlying assumptions of the Taguchi method for on-line quality control are...
A construction algorithm for the machine layout problem with fixed pick-up and drop-off points
1993,
A construction algorithm which considers some practical aspects of the machine layout...
A note on ‘The economic ordering quantity for jointly replenishing items’
1993,
A modification is presented of a procedure proposed by Kaspi and Rosenblatt [IAOR...
Generating learning curves for individual products from aggregated data
1993,
The learning curve relates the performance of a specific task to the number of...
A comparison of alternative joint vendor-purchaser lot-sizing models
1993,
This paper provides a comparative analysis of two sets of alternative joint lot-sizing...
Improving the design of stochastic production lines: An approach using perturbation analysis
1993,
With the recent increase in expense and specialization of equipment, capacity...
An evaluation of heuristics for allocating components to kits in small-lot, multi-echelon assembly systems
1993,
The kitting problem in multi-echelon assembly systems is to allocate on-hand stock and...
On measurement and valuation of manufacturing flexibility
1993,
The concept of flexibility has been a recurring theme in recent manufacturing...
Tabu search-based heuristics for cellular manufacturing systems in the presence of alternative process plans
1994,
When alternative process plans are considered in cellular manufacturing systems, there...
Economic theory, cost accounting and theory of constraints: An examination of relationships and problems
1994,
The theory of constraints (TOC) is a production planning and control system reported...
Design of line-type cellular manufacturing systems for minimum operating and material-handling costs
1994,
This study presents a three-stage procedure for designing a line-type cellular...
Linear-programming-based productivity and business strategy analyses in the factory automation era
1994,
Despite a century-old history of productivity measurement and analysis, productivity...
Machine-component grouping in cellular manufacturing by multidimensional scaling
1994,
A heuristic is proposed for grouping of machines and components in cellular...
A decomposition scheduling method for operating flexible manufacturing systems
1994,
A ‘decomposition scheduling method’ is proposed for operating a flexible...
Effect of buffer capacity and sequencing rules on single-card kanban system performance
1993,
One of the basic tenets of scheduling theory is that the shortest-processing-time...
Testing minimum performance levels for kanban-controlled lines
1994,
The production literature has focused on the problem of setting the number of kanbans...
Product structure complexity and inventory storage capacity on the performance of a multi-level manufacturing system
1993,
In today’s competitive environment firms are placing greater emphasis on...
Process quality improvement and setup reduction in dynamic lot-sizing
1993,
Previous work on setup reduction to dynamic lot-sizing with process improvement is...
Continuous simulation and industrial processes: Electrode consumption in arc furnaces
1993,
The initial purpose of the present study was to test the capacity of a common...
Similarity and distance measures for cellular manufacturing. Part II. An extension and comparison
1993,
A new similarity measure that is easy to calculate, intuitively appealing, and...
Cluster first-sequence last heuristics for generating block diagonal forms for a machine-part matrix
1993,
Before detailed cell design analyses, rearranging the binary (or 0-1) machine-part...
Economical design of material flow paths
1993,
In this paper, the authors suggest a branch-and-bound procedure for designing flow...
A methodology to evaluate/improve the performance of a machine vision system
1993,
In this research, the performance of a machine vision system was evaluated and...
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