Keyword: production

Found 1978 papers in total
Seeking optimality in fruit pulping schedules: A case study
1999,
The process of scheduling fruit pulping for the production of fruit juices is of great...
Optimal pricing and inventory policies: Centralized and decentralized decision making
2002,
The paper studies an optimal control problem of pricing and inventory replenishment in...
Prescribing product upgrades, prices and production levels over time in a stochastic environment
2002,
Competitive pressures cause the price of high-technology products to erode over time....
Deadlock avoidance in an automated guidance vehicle system using a coloured Petri net model
2002,
This paper addresses the problem of deadlock control in automated guided vehicle (AGV)...
Product life cycle analysis: A goal programming approach
2001,
This paper considers the role of Life-Cycle Costing (LCC), Time-Based Competition...
Melt scheduling to trade off material waste and shipping performance
2001,
The ingot formation or ‘melt’ process is the first step in many...
Performance of bucket brigades when work is stochastic
2001,
‘Bucket brigades’ are a way of sharing work on a flow line that results in...
Single product lot sizing problem with capacity constraints: Modeling, resolution method and computational results
2000,
This work presents a study on the resolution method of the single product lot sizing...
Multi-site planning: A transshipment problem
2001,
Today, firms have to compete on international openness markets. The resulting...
A methodology for developing a web-based factory simulator for manufacturing education
2001,
Historically, manufacturing engineering education has focused on teaching mathematical...
An improved method for analysis of stochastic stock decision models
2001,
The stochastic decision model used in traditional stock management is improved, and a...
A closed queuing maintenance network for automated manufacturing systems
2001,
This paper models an unreliable automated manufacturing system (AMS) by a closed...
Order selection optimization in hybrid make-to-order and make-to-stock markets
2001,
The order selection process for firms operating in markets characterized by standard...
Guidelines for selection of manufacturing simulation software
1999,
Manufacturing systems have become progressively complex and costly. Simulation is...
The analysis of optimal price control model in matching problem between production and sales
2001,
This paper presents a mathematical model under the assumptions of linear demand and...
A CAD/CAM system for process planning and optimization in laminated object manufacturing
2001,
Rapid Prototyping (RP) technologies have emerged as a powerful set of manufacturing...
Optimising the global production and distribution operations of an internal aluminium company: A case study
2001,
In this paper, the production scheduling and then global distribution operations for a...
Dynamic and static job allocation for multi-server systems
1998,
We consider the optimal assignment of groups of jobs to a fixed number of time periods...
Dry-or-buy decision support for dry kiln scheduling in furniture production
2001,
In this paper, a dry-or-buy cost model for a dry kiln scheduling problem in the...
Single machine batch scheduling with sequential job processing
2001,
The problem of scheduling n jobs on a single machine in batches to minimize some...
Group technology cell formation considering operation sequences and production volumes
2001,
In this paper a new approach for minimizing intercell part flows in cellular...
An evaluation of the drum–buffer–rope control mechanism in a job shop environment
2001,
This study is an evaluation of the drum–buffer–rope (DBR) control...
Effective sequencing rules for closed manufacturing networks
2001,
This paper develops a method for determining sequencing policies to effectively...
A hybrid shop-floor control system for food manufacturing
2001,
This paper describes research in the area of hybrid control using simulation including...
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