...Raed El-Khalil Purpose – The current economic crisis increased the demand on management to improve process efficiency. The purpose of this paper is to identify and resolve inefficiencies within the car assembly system utilizing discrete simulation modeling and analysis in order to improve...

.... The estimated data could be used as reference for preliminary feasibility studies of similar EPC applications. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Materials management Tracking Process efficiency Modelling Systems analysis Modern supply chain management depends heavily...

... in presence of buffers, without underestimating the efficiency of the system. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Manufacturing systems Process efficiency Plant efficiency Productive capacity The definition of metrics for measuring the productivity of manufacturing facilities has...

... Process efficiency Plant efficiency It is widely acknowledged that the manufacturing function in any business can help it to stay competitive in the market. As such, manufacturing firms aim to achieve the highest levels of performance along areas such as quality, flexibility, delivery and costs...

... of n different linear programming problems. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Process efficiency Data analysis Production processes Cosmetics the number of machine types utilized; the maximum number of machines allowed in a cell; and the volume of production...

... be examined. Programming and algorithm theory Parts Process efficiency bottleneck machine duplication; exceptional part subcontracting; multiple process plans; and machine duplication coupled with lot splitting. Among these policies, the machine duplication is most widely...

... experiments, ANOVA is used to pin point the key sources of variation. Since expulsion force is a nominal‐the‐best type of quality characteristic, it was decided to employ the two‐step optimisation procedure recommended by Taguchi (Taguchi and Yokohama, 1993): Design of experiments Optimization Process...