Keyword: production

Found 1978 papers in total
Noise and learning in semiconductor manufacturing
1995,
Rapid technological learning is critical to commercial success in VLSI semiconductor...
Lower in-process inventories and better on-time performance at Tanner Companies, Inc
1995,
In the early 1990s, Tanner Companies had a 74 percent on-time delivery rate and high...
An object-oriented simulation architecture with real-time capabilities
1995,
Simulation that approximates real-time system response has previously been used to...
Productivity improvement: Efficiency approach vs effectiveness approach
1995,
Traditionally, raising the level of technology is considered the most effective way to...
Probability of first passage analysis of a two-stage transfer-line production system with rework
1995,
This paper provides an integrated framework to consider manufacturing, inspection and...
Crane scheduling with time windows in circuit board production lines
1995,
This paper studies a crane scheduling problem with time windows in a flow-shop type...
Quality management at Kentucky Fried Chicken
1995,
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Corporation, a member of the quick-service restaurant...
A parametric analysis of a constrained nonlinear inventory-production model
1994,
The authors discuss in this paper some inventory-production models which can be...
A production inventory problem with random point demand
1994,
This article is to provide a model which controls production and inventory of...
Evaluation of lead time in production/inventory systems with non-stationary stochastic demand
1995,
For the past decade, new techniques for production management-such as kanban...
Lower bounds for multi-echelon stochastic inventory systems
1994,
The authors establish lower bounds on the minimum cost of managing certain...
A heuristic lot scheduling method making use of the optimal schedules’ characters-A study on production ordering system in lot production system
1994,
This paper deals with a heuristic scheduling method for combinatorial ‘lot size...
The strategic use of capacity slack in the economic lot scheduling problem with random demand
1994,
Growing interest in designing systems with capacity slack as one form of flexibility...
A branch and bound algorithm for unrelated parallel-machine scheduling problem
1994,
Suppose there are several machines of different performances and several jobs to be...
Determining an optimal production run in a tool wear process: The case study of the huller and whitener in a rice mill
1994,
This paper investigates the behaviour of a product quality characteristic when...
Economic production lot size model with variable production rate and imperfect quality
1994,
The classical economic production lot size (EPL) model assumes a constant production...
Backtracking and its amoebic properties in one-dimensional machine location problems
1994,
This paper studies the assignment of M unique machines to M equally spaced locations...
Competitive factors and performance measurement: Applying the Theory of Constraints to meet customer needs
1994,
This article presents an analysis describing how the selection of proper competitive...
An experimental model for investigating the sensitivity of job shop performance to job release time distribution parameters
1994,
Work flows in a job shop are influenced by the load per release and time interval...
The impact of lot splitting on due date performance
1994,
The primary purpose of the research project was to determine if the flow time...
Dealing with a shelf life constraint in cyclic scheduling by adjusting both cycle time and production rate
1995,
The situation of a family of items sharing a piece of production equipment is...
Modelling an automated storage and retrieval system using Petri nets
1995,
The authors investigated the feasibility of using stochastic Petri nets (SPNs) to...
Balancing flexible lines for car components assembly
1995,
The design and balancing of a line which assembles car heaters is examined. To...
Optimizing the operations of an Ingot Mill in an aluminium smelter
1994,
In this paper, a mathematical model of the Ingot Mill in the Portland Aluminium...
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