... on production systems and improve their operational performance. Rafael Diaz can be contacted at: rdiaz@odu.edu 21 10 2022 07 02 2023 03 03 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Innovation Scheduling Industry 4.0...

...Qinming Liu; Wenyuan Lv Purpose – The traditional maintenance scheduling strategies of multi-component systems may result in maintenance shortage or overage, while system degradation information is often ignored. The purpose of this paper is to propose a multi-phase model that better integrates...

... and software houses who want to have a knowledge base for further research and practical implementation in the wider field of production management, planning and scheduling. The problem above, may be different if we consider some basic variations of the flow shop model: in some flow shops, if a job does...

... product development process. © MCB UP Limited 2000 New product development Scheduling Competition Computer industry Without doubt, time has become very important for companies that want to have a competitive superiority. In the 1980s, quality was the model to follow in terms...

...‐a‐day operations. Automated job scheduling, message management, alerts and other aspects of automated systems management have been covered by the Robot suite, leveraging Premier’s IT investment. Premier Beverages has several manufacturing sites across the country, with a central IT function based...

...Zhiwei Zhu; William A. Cernich; Paul H. Meredith; Patricia A. Lanier Describes the application of the Group Technology concept in scheduling industrial bag production in a woven products division of a bag manufacturer. The labour assignments, determined through a linear goal programming model...

...Homayoun Khamooshi Discusses the twofold purpose of this study, first to introduce a number of measures devised to be used in comparing and evaluating two schedules for the same project, second to present and evaluate a heuristic procedure developed in this research for solving the resource...

...Brian Lehaney Provides an introduction to simulation, and discusses the use of a modern simulation environment. Examples of the uses of simulation are queuing, scheduling and stock control. Simulation environments are now far more user‐friendly, and software is more competitively priced, than ever...

... of the entire firm measured as a function of an overlengthening time frame. It is this systems approach that will be used in the following analysis. Keeping the operations orientation in mind, three primary areas will be considered for discussion: scheduling, inventory control and shop-floor control...

...John R. Dougherty; Christopher Gray Effective planning and scheduling systems improve performance in every area of a company. Interfunctional communication and understanding must improve planning that involves joint plans, and schedules must be instituted. Sales and marketing are crucial...