Keyword: production

Found 1978 papers in total
Operations management of a packaging plant in the fruit industry
2005,
The production of fresh fruit (apples and pears) and concentrated juice is one of the...
Batch dispersion model to optimise traceability in food industry
2005,
Facing many food safety crises, like BSE or foot-and-mouth disease, food companies try...
Automatic production planning of press brakes for sheet metal bending
2006,
This paper discusses the planning module of system that has been developed in a...
An intelligent decision support system for manufacturing technology investments
2006,
Making strategic decision on new manufacturing technology investments is difficult....
Optimal ordering policy in a distribution system
2006,
In conventional inventory management, the retailers monitor their own inventory levels...
Dispatching rules for production scheduling in the capital goods industry
2006,
Research on dispatching rules has focused upon deterministic job shop situations or...
Manufacturing delivery performance for supply chain management
2007,
This paper considers single-stage make-to-order production systems. We focus on (1)...
Manufacturing relations: An empirical study of the organization of production across multiple networks
2006,
Organizational communities present two generic features that are recurrently...
Improved heuristic for manpower shift planning with modified shift priorities
2006,
Consideration is given to a personnel planning problem, termed manpower shift planning...
An application of the learning curve and the nonconstant-growth dividend model: IT investment valuations at Intel® Corporation
2006,
Technology benefits last years longer than the standard ROI valuation analysis but are...
A coordination mechanism for a supply chain with demand information updating
2006,
We consider the coordination of a supply chain with a long leadtime and demand...
Economic lot sizing for an imperfect production system subject to random breakdowns
2006,
This article considers an economic manufacturing quantity model for an imperfect...
Production and inventory management under multiple resource constraints
2006,
In this paper we present a model and solution methodology for production and inventory...
Two-machine flow-shop scheduling to minimize total late work
2006,
This article considers a two-machine flow-shop scheduling problem of minimizing total...
A bargaining model with asymmetric information for a single supplier–single buyer problem
2006,
Banerjee's joint economic lot size (JELS) model represents one approach to minimizing...
Managing the global supply chain: a perspective for small and medium enterprises
2006,
This paper aims to highlight the underlying factors that contribute to the effective...
Production quantity allocation for order fulfilment in the supply chain: a neural network based approach
2006,
In the current global business environment, it is very important to know how to...
Optimization model for a livestock collection problem
2006,
Purpose – The value chain of the Norwegian meat production industry has recently...
Designing logistics networks in divergent process industries: A methodology and its application to the lumber industry
2006,
This paper presents a generic methodology to design the production–distribution...
Re-engineering of the forecasting process in a Greek wood-processing company
2006,
This paper presents the re-engineering of the forecasting process of a medium-size...
Time-phased creation of hybrid manufacturing systems
2006,
This paper develops a comprehensive method for transforming pure functional...
General Motors increases its production throughput
2006,
In the late 1980s, General Motors Corporation (GM) initiated a long-term project to...
Vehicle dispatching for highly loaded semiconductor production considering bottleneck machines first
2005,
Semiconductor wafer fabrication lines can be characterized by re-entrant product flow,...
Implementing theory of constraints in a traditional Japanese manufacturing environment: The case of Hitatchi Tool Engineering
2006,
This research presents a case study of a virtual ‘textbook’ application of...
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