Keyword: manufacturing industries

Found 1205 papers in total
Process planning for aluminum tubes: An engineering-operations perspective
Process planning for aluminum tubes: An engineering-operations perspective
1996,
Metal-forming operations such as extrusion, drawing, and rolling offer many...
Using product profiling to illustrate manufacturing–marketing misalignment
Using product profiling to illustrate manufacturing–marketing misalignment
1999,
In their July-August 1998 (IAOR 68306) article, Hill, Menda, and Dilts described...
Control strategies for a stochastic flexible manufacturing and assembly system model
Control strategies for a stochastic flexible manufacturing and assembly system model
1999,
Optimal control strategies are computed for a stochastic discrete time flexible...
Timed Petri nets in modeling and analysis of simple schedules for manufacturing cells
Timed Petri nets in modeling and analysis of simple schedules for manufacturing cells
1999,
It is shown that a large class of flexible manufacturing cells can be modeled using...
Batch construction heuristics and storage assignment strategies for walk/ride and pick systems
Batch construction heuristics and storage assignment strategies for walk/ride and pick systems
1999,
The retrieval of items from storage is a chore faced by virtually every business...
Real options and product life cycles
Real options and product life cycles
1999,
In this paper, I develop an option valuation framework that explicitly incorporates a...
The effects of human resource management systems on economic performance: An international comparison of US and Japanese plants
The effects of human resource management systems on economic performance: An international comparison of US and Japanese plants
1999,
This study uses personally collected data from 41 steel production lines to assess the...
Optimality of the symmetric workload allocation in a single-server flow line system
Optimality of the symmetric workload allocation in a single-server flow line system
1999,
This paper provides a proof of the symmetrical allocation property (SAP), conjectured...
Comparisons of optimal accelerated test plans for estimating quantiles of lifetime distribution at the use condition
Comparisons of optimal accelerated test plans for estimating quantiles of lifetime distribution at the use condition
1999,
Accelerated life tests (ALTs) and accelerated degradation tests (ADTs) are widely used...
Single-machine scheduling with controllable processing times and earliness, tardiness and completion time penalties
Single-machine scheduling with controllable processing times and earliness, tardiness and completion time penalties
1999,
The paper considers the problem of scheduling n independent and simultaneously...
Identifying alternate optimal solutions to the design approximation problem in stock cutting
Identifying alternate optimal solutions to the design approximation problem in stock cutting
1999,
The design approximation problem is a well known problem in stock cutting, where, in...
Inventory control in hybrid systems with remanufacturing
Inventory control in hybrid systems with remanufacturing
1999,
This paper is on production planning and inventory control in systems where...
Centralization of stocks: Retailers vs. manufacturer
Centralization of stocks: Retailers vs. manufacturer
1999,
A well-known result in inventory theory is that physical centralization of stocks in a...
An investigation of lead-time effects in manufacturing/remanufacturing systems under simple PUSH and PULL control strategies
An investigation of lead-time effects in manufacturing/remanufacturing systems under simple PUSH and PULL control strategies
1999,
In this paper we extend the PUSH and PULL control strategies defined by van der Laan...
JIT manufacturing: A survey of implementations in small and large US manufacturers
JIT manufacturing: A survey of implementations in small and large US manufacturers
1999,
Since the early 1980s, the diffusion of Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing from Japanese...
Process innovation and learning by doing in semiconductor manufacturing
Process innovation and learning by doing in semiconductor manufacturing
1998,
This paper analyzes the relationship between process innovation and learning by doing...
Industrial Research for Competitiveness
Industrial Research for Competitiveness
1998,
Robust process control at Cerestar's refineries
Robust process control at Cerestar's refineries
1999,
With annual sales of over $2 billion, Cerestar is Europe's leading manufacturer...
Comparative performance of global semiconductor companies
Comparative performance of global semiconductor companies
1998,
This paper presents a performance evaluation for the global semiconductor industry....
Identifying excesses and deficits in Chinese industrial productivity (1953–1990): A weighted data envelopment analysis approach
Identifying excesses and deficits in Chinese industrial productivity (1953–1990): A weighted data envelopment analysis approach
1998,
The paper investigates excesses and deficits in Chinese industrial productivity for...
Optimization of polymer extrusion with genetic algorithms
Optimization of polymer extrusion with genetic algorithms
1998,
In the manufacture of plastics parts by extrusion or injection moulding, polymers are...
A decomposition approach to two-stage hybrid flow shop scheduling with diverging jobs
A decomposition approach to two-stage hybrid flow shop scheduling with diverging jobs
1998,
A two-stage hybrid flow shop associated with process industry is considered, in which...
A dynamic search method for jobshop scheduling using Lagrange relaxation method and genetic algorithms
A dynamic search method for jobshop scheduling using Lagrange relaxation method and genetic algorithms
1998,
This paper deals with an approximate solution method by decomposing a search space...
Minimizing the flow time and the lateness on a processor with a varying speed
Minimizing the flow time and the lateness on a processor with a varying speed
1997,
In the paper the problems of scheduling on a single processor with varying speed are...
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