Keyword: manufacturing industries

Found 1205 papers in total
Including the value of time in design for manufacturing decision making
Including the value of time in design for manufacturing decision making
1993,
Design for manufacturing (DFM) has been promoted as a way to enhance product...
On decomposition methods for tandem queueing networks with blocking
On decomposition methods for tandem queueing networks with blocking
1993,
Queueing networks with blocking are useful for modeling and analyzing discrete event...
Competition and investment in flexible technologies
Competition and investment in flexible technologies
1993,
This paper examines the implications of market structure on investment in flexible...
Models for measuring and accounting for cost of conformance quality
Models for measuring and accounting for cost of conformance quality
1993,
The authors build a model to measure and account for the cost of quality. They...
Early Operational Research OR in the Steel Company of Wales
Early Operational Research OR in the Steel Company of Wales
1992,
The flavour of early industrial Operational Research OR is given by reference to the...
Development and use of a Visual Interactive Planning Board within Alcan Aluminium
Development and use of a Visual Interactive Planning Board within Alcan Aluminium
1991,
Systems designed to address the production control problems of assembly plants have...
Optimization of a sequence of reactors
Optimization of a sequence of reactors
1991,
The paper considers a model of a production process, taken from the description of...
A heuristic approach to the lumber allocation problem in hardwood dimension and furniture manufacturing
A heuristic approach to the lumber allocation problem in hardwood dimension and furniture manufacturing
1991,
The allocation of lumber is perennial problem in hardwood dimension and furniture...
Heuristics for sequencing cutting patterns
Heuristics for sequencing cutting patterns
1991,
The Australian glass industry faces a problem in sequencing the cutting patterns...
Optimal workload allocation in open networks of multiserver queues
Optimal workload allocation in open networks of multiserver queues
1992,
The paper examines the general problem of workload allocation in an open Jackson...
Routing printed circuit cards through an assembly cell
Routing printed circuit cards through an assembly cell
1991,
The process planning problem is described for a class of flexible assembly systems for...
Determination of automated storage/retrieval system size
Determination of automated storage/retrieval system size
1992,
This paper considers a problem of determining the automated storage/retrieval system...
Quality control in manufacturing systems using M/G/1 queues with (N+1) different inspection rates
Quality control in manufacturing systems using M/G/1 queues with (N+1) different inspection rates
1992,
In this paper the authors propose a model with ( N+1) different inspection rates...
Knowledge-based decision support systems for manufacturing decision-making. The Pirelli experience
Knowledge-based decision support systems for manufacturing decision-making. The Pirelli experience
1992,
Managers make decisions on the basis of models of the real world. Models provide...
Ordering policies in an environment of stochastic yields and substitutable demands
Ordering policies in an environment of stochastic yields and substitutable demands
1992,
In this paper, the authors model production problems where yields are stochastic,...
Joint economically optimal design of nX and S2 control charts
Joint economically optimal design of nX and S2 control charts
1992,
Rahim et al proposed a search algorithm to determine the optimal design of joint nX...
The line segmentation problem
The line segmentation problem
1991,
This paper describes a line segmentation problem in a multistage, multimachine...
Two super-optimum solutions in a cut-back mode
Two super-optimum solutions in a cut-back mode
1992,
This essay reviews two approaches toward achieving super-optimum solutions under the...
Computing a global optimal solution to a design centering problem
Computing a global optimal solution to a design centering problem
1992,
In this paper the authors present a method for solving a special three-dimensional...
Implementations of robotics: Identifying efficient implementors
Implementations of robotics: Identifying efficient implementors
1992,
This paper examines the implementation of robotics in 31 companies. The problem is to...
Demand management and production control in process industries
Demand management and production control in process industries
1992,
In a changing and more dynamic market of the 1980s, available mathematical programming...
Part dispatch in random yield multistage flexible test systems for printed circuit boards
Part dispatch in random yield multistage flexible test systems for printed circuit boards
1992,
This paper concerns dynamic part dispatch decisions in electronic test systems with...
A new multidimensional scaling methodology for the analysis of asymmetric proximity data in marketing research
A new multidimensional scaling methodology for the analysis of asymmetric proximity data in marketing research
1992,
This paper presents a new multidimensional scaling (MDS) methodology which...
Brand loyalty and marketing strategy: An application to home appliances
Brand loyalty and marketing strategy: An application to home appliances
1992,
In the academic literature, the modelling of brand choice and switching behavior has a...
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