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Comparison of Production-Line Control Mechanisms |
We study the performance of the kanban, minimal blocking, basestock,
CON-WIP, and hybrid kanban-CONWIP control policies in a four-machine
tandem production line making parts for an automobile assembly line.
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Activity-Based Costing Approach to Equipment Selection Problem For
Flexible Manufacturing Systems |
The equipment selection problem is essential in manufacturing today.
It typically involves the selection of a set of equipment to be used
in production based on technical and economical criteria. This paper
will focus on an activity-based costing approach to the equipment
selection problem for flexible manufacturing systems. pdf-file |
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Adoption of Internet Technology in Manufacturing |
Operational Factors that Influence the Successful Adoption of
Internet Technology in Manufacturing. Pdf-file. October 2002 |
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Agile Manufacturing |
A good introduction |
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Benchmarking and Configuration of Workflow Management Systems |
Workflow management systems (WFMS) are a cornerstone of
mission-criticial, possibly cross-organizational business processes.
For largescale applications both their performance and availability
are crucial factors, and the system needs to be properly configured
to meet the application demands. |
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Best Possible Outcome |
Operations research is helping corporations and government agencies
tackle really thorny scheduling problems in record time |
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Beyond dot-com? |
George Schultz on how online processes affect manufacturing
practices. 2004 |
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Cellular Manufacturing System Design |
A Kaizen Based Approach for Cellular Manufacturing System Design: A
Case Study. Pdf-file |
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Company Relocation |
Planning ahead can make relocating your company a headache-free
experience |
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Continuous-Time Production Planning |
Models and Solving Procedures for Continuous-Time Production
Planning. Pdf-file |
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Contract Manufacturing: Realizing the Potential |
With so much potential, why do so many contract-manufacturing
relationships fall short of expectations? One reason is that many
expectations are flawed from the beginning. Pdf-file. 2004 |
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Defining Manufacturing Flexibility: A Research Prerequisite |
Thus, in addition to quality, cost and time, flexibility has become
an important competitive weapon for manufacturing companies. In the
manufacturing flexibility field, understanding, classifying and
measuring manufacturing flexibility is very important to researchers
and practitioners alike as the concepts, as expressed in the
literature, are at best vague and at worst, confusing. pdf-file.
2004 |
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Design and Operation of Manufacturing Systems |
The Control-Point Policy. Pdf-file 2000 |
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Disposable Factories |
Since the 1980s, manufacturing executives have invested billions in
flexible automation. Now that approach may be too inflexible and
capital intensive. A better option could be to build product- and
capacity-specific facilities that get written off if the market or
the environment changes. pdf-file 2006 |
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Dynamic Pricing Strategies for Multi-Product Revenue Management
Problems |
Consider a firm that owns a fixed capacity of a resource that is
consumed in the production or delivery of multiple products. The
firm’s problem is to maximize its total expected revenues over a
finite horizon either by choosing a dynamic pricing strategy for
each product, or, if prices are fixed, by selecting a dynamic rule
that controls the allocation of capacity to requests for the
different products. pdf-file 2004 |
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Engineer-to-order |
Engineer-to-order manufacturers have very similar challenges amongst
very different product lines. Pamela Malinoski reports how these
manufacturers are navigating the options today. 2004 |
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Factories Of The Future |
The most crucial investment for the factory of the future will be
made not in hardware or software, but in understanding how
manufacturing technology provides new options to power business
success. |
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Flexibility for Whom? |
The (Un)Intended Consequences of Modular Production in a Mexican
Garment Factory. Pdf-file |
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Flexible Manufacturing Systems |
Activity-Based Costing Approach to Equipment Selection Problem For
Flexible Manufacturing Systems. Pdf-file |
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Functional thinking in production process environment |
Functional thinking is described as a way to practice innovation and
lead to new insights than what is known in process analysis, added
value and method study. Pdf-file 160 KB. June 2003 |
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How
to design a production line that has a bottleneck |
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Identifying requirements for the implementation of production
management systems in graphic arts companies |
Graphic arts companies have a clear need for structured production
management methods. A specification of requirements for production
management identifying needs based on operational and administrative
activities, can contribute significantly in the selection and
implementation of a production management system. |
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Impact of process change on customer perception of waiting time: a
field study |
Process redesign may not only change the actual waiting time but
also have signifcant impact on perceived waiting time. We examine
how process changes a7ect customer perceptions on waiting and
customer satisfaction. pdf-file 2002 |
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Improving Returns and Cash Flow in Process Industries |
How companies in the process industries can improve return on
capital employed and cash flow by better managing working capital
(inventory, receivables, and payables). Pdf-file 100 KB |
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Kanban Scheduling |
Brief overview on Kanban scheduling systems |
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Learning Material |
Information and links, compiled for MBA-students |
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Manufacturing Report on Business |
Latest national (US) report on manufacturing business, business
trends and indices |
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Mechanisms for Building and Sustaining Operations Improvement |
This article aims to provide some insight into the methods that can
be deployed to build rapid and sustained improvement, by first
looking at the recent history of operations improvement methods,
then describing a new framework for mapping improvement paths and
using it to characterize the strategies deployed by some of the
world’s fastest improvers. pdf-file 1996 |
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Non-Manufacturing Report on Business |
Latest national (US) report on non-manufacturing business, business
trends and indices |
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Optimal Control Assemble-to-Order Systems with Delay Guarantees |
Consider a high-volume assemble-to-order system with multiple
products and components in which component production can be
expedited at some additional cost. The objective is to maximize
expected discounted pro t subject to assembling orders within a
guaranteed maximum leadtime. pdf-file 2003 |
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Optimal Control of High-Volume Assemble-to-Order Systems |
pdf-file 2005 |
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Outside-The-Box Manufacturing |
Competitiveness and customer service can improve greatly when
business-process information is shared |
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Paths For Progress |
World-class plants combine best practices, teamwork, and technology
to achieve optimal performance. (Nov 2000) |
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Probabilistic Analysis of Multi-Item Capacitated Lot Sizing Problems |
This paper conducts a probabilistic analysis of an important class
of heuristics for multi-item capacitated lot sizing problems.
Pdf-file 2004 |
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Production Excellence: Unleashing the Power of the Shop Floor |
Many companies today have lost sight of production excellence. They
have focused on expanding business and plant networks across
borders, and they have tried to become more market driven. However,
in doing so, they have overlooked opportunities for improving the
capabilities and performance of their manufacturing operations.
pdf-file 2005 |
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Production Management Systems Elevate Product Lifecycle Management
Solutions to a New Level |
Production Management (PM), or Manufacturing Execution Systems
(MES), are integral components of an end-to-end Product Lifecycle
Management (PLM) solution. |
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Reducing Set Up Times - A Foundation for Lean Manufacturing |
Article containing guidelines for reducing machine set-up times.
pdf-file |
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Relocate? Transform? Which Option Is Right? |
According to the latest research from Booz Allen Hamilton, many
low-cost manufacturers may be more expensive than they appear. In
this article, the authors find that unexpected costs and
inefficiencies are commonplace, and that offshoring is not always
the soundest business decision. 2006 |
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Technology Management: a process approach |
This paper proposes a framework for the management of technology
based on process thinking. Pdf-file 1995 |
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The
Coordination of Global Manufacturing |
Production capacity is now sufficiently flexible in some industries,
to be viewed as a commodity. Technological change has raised the
prospect of global markets for a variety of types of flexible
manufacturing capacity. This paper outlines technological and
commercial conditions under which markets for flexible manufacturing
capacity are likely to arise, describes an industry in which a
capacity market exists, and explores desiderata for such markets.
1993 |
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The
Discipline of Product Management |
Product development is the process of designing, building,
operating, and maintaining a good or service. Pdf-file |
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The
End of the Line for Mass Production |
No Time for Batches & Queues |
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The
Impact of Duplicate Orders on Demand Estimation and Capacity
Investment |
Motivated by a $2.2 billion inventory write-off by Cisco Systems, we
investigate how duplicate orders can lead a manufacturer to err in
estimating the demand rate and customers' sensitivity to delay, and
to make faulty decisions about capacity investment. Finally, we
provide some guidance on estimation in the presence of double
orders. pdf-file. July 2003 |
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The
Pull System Mystery Explained |
Going forward by moving backward is how one author described a pull
system. Others use the analogies of drums, buffers and rope to
explain how to "pull" production through a manufacturing shop. |
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Total Productive Maintenance - Implementation |
Companies that have been successful usually follow an implementation
plan that includes the following 12 steps |
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Total Productive Maintenance - Overview |
Continuous flow manufacturing will not allow for frequent, unplanned
equipment down-time. TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) is an
excellent method for meeting the demands continuous flow
manufacturing places on equipment. |
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Using planning steps for production planning |
Disruptions during plan executions cause generated productions plans
to be useless. A new planning methodology for coping with this
uncertainty caused by disruptions is presented. Pdf-file |
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Visual Management: More than Just a Pretty Plant |
One of the most widely publicized elements of lean manufacturing is
visual factory or “5S.” The term “5S” is derived from five Japanese
words that refer to cleanliness, order, and discipline. These
concepts are the foundation of industrial housekeeping and workplace
organization. |
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World-Class Perspectives |
Defining the optimum in manufacturing operations remains, at best,
an inexact science. (Nov. 2000) |
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