Journal: International Journal of Production Research

Found 2417 papers in total
Improving the equality of workload assignments in assembly lines
1991,
Most heuristic and optimal methods for assembly line balancing are designed either to...
Throughput of a constant work in process manufacturing line subject to failures
1991,
The authors consider a production line consisting of several machines in tandem...
Framework for dynamic positioning of storage/retrieval machines in an automated storage/retrieval system
1991,
A methodology is presented based on linear programming formulation and which minimizes...
The just-in-time philosophy: A literature review
1991,
The just-in-time (JIT) literature is reviewed to identify 221 refereed articles. To...
A hierarchical approach to the facility layout problem
1991,
A hierarchical approach to the continual plane facility layout problem is presented in...
Batch production time in a multi-stage system with material-handling consideration
1991,
In many production systems, batch jobs exist in the form of multiple, identical...
Flow rate flexibility in complex production departments
1991,
Consider a production situation where it is desirable that the production orders of...
Layout considerations in assembly line design
1991,
The authors address the problem of determining the optimal amount of workspace in...
Hierarchical production planning system for a two-stage process
1991,
This paper deals with the problem of designing a hierarchical production planning...
Selecting a flexible manufacturing system using multiple criteria analysis
1991,
A visual interactive decision support framework designed to aid the decision-maker,...
Determination of optimal lot sizing parameters and a controllable process mean for a production system
1991,
Several mathematical models have been developed separately for determining production...
Using Taguchi design, regression analysis and simulation to study maintenance float systems
1990,
This paper proposes a new strategic approach for the maintenance float decision...
Repair policies for additively degrading machines
1990,
This paper describes a method for determining repair policies for machines whose...
Flowshop scheduling with set-up, processing and removal times separated
1991,
Algorithms are developed for finding an optimal or near-optimal permutation schedule...
A preliminary investigation of multi-attribute based sequencing rules for assembly shops
1991,
This paper updates the current literature on assembly shop scheduling to include...
A comparative study of U.S. manufacturing firms at various stages of just-in-time implementation
1991,
This study explores whether there are differences among the companies at various...
FMS designer: An expert system for flexible manufacturing system design
1990,
Implementation of flexible manufacturing technology in the batch manufacturing...
Designing performance measurement systems for just-in-time operations
1990,
Results of a study conducted to understand how performance is evaluated in...
Design of a scheduling system for flexible manufacturing cells
1990,
The objective of this paper is to describe an effective scheduling system for flexible...
Determining the number of kanbans: A step toward non-stock-production
1990,
Just-in-time (JIT) production is a philosophy that calls for reducing work-in-process...
Quality control in a single state production system: Open and closed loop policies
1990,
The output quality in a single state production system depends on the input quality...
A dynamic programming model for the kanban assignment problem in a multistage multiperiod production system
1991,
The ‘kanban’, which literally means ‘cards’, is an information...
The sensitivity of set-up cost estimation on the problem of joint lot sizing and scheduling
1991,
The determination of lot sizes and production schedules of multiple products in...
Economic evaluation of robot-based assembly systems
1991,
Economic justification of the use of industrial robots in general-purpose assembly is...
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