...Yanting Ni; Yuchen Li; Jin Yao; Jingmin Li Purpose – In a complex semiconductor manufacturing system (SMS) environment, the implementation of dynamic production scheduling and dispatching strategies is critical for SMS distributed collaborative manufacturing events to make quick and correct...

... on the reviewed studies. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Economic‐lot scheduling problem Scheduling Lot‐sizing Review Production scheduling Operations management Economic‐lot scheduling problem (ELSP) aims to find a cyclical (i.e. repetitive) scheduling policy for producing several...

...) and Krish (2011) . Raid Al‐Aomar can be contacted at: ralaomar@just.edu.jo © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Construction industry Steel Beams Process control Production scheduling Operations and production management Process planning Time standards Generative CAPP...

...) individuals. Generate another half of new chromosomes randomly. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Genetic algorithms Simulation Production scheduling Job shop scheduling In order to implement adopted methodology, a job shop consisting of 15 machines is taken...

.../approach This paper develops two methods with GAs for detailed production scheduling in supply networks. The first method adopts a GA to job shop scheduling in any node of the supply network. The second method is developed for collective scheduling in an industrial cluster using a modified GA (MGA...

... Toyota build incentives to reward managers to contribute to company‐wide goals? RQ6. How does Toyota develop its managers in learning how to implement production levelling? Production Planning and control Production scheduling Lean production The concept of production...

... of a manufacturing environment. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Production scheduling Manufacturing systems Operating costs Most prior research on job or flow shops has focused on the use of one rule at a time at all work centers in the system. Such an approach, which includes a set...

... characteristics, operating characteristics, and considered factors lead the two companies to apply different types of postponement. Thus, this paper will compare postponement strategies implemented in different industries. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 China Information systems Production...

... at: wshxf@sjtu.edu.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Production scheduling Parallel machines Shipbuilding industry China In the recent years, Chinese shipbuilding industry boomed because of the cheap labor, and in China, the shipyards are running at peak load capacity...

... be found in Baykasoğlu (2002) and Baykasoğlu et al. (2004) . Adil Baykasoğlu can be contacted at: baykasoglu@gantep.edu.tr © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Flexibility manufacturing systems Manufacturing systems Performance levels Production scheduling Experimental...

... of all jobs allotted to it. The machine with maximum workload is the bottleneck, which affects the throughput of a shop floor. The aim of workflow balancing is to reduce the maximum workload at the bottleneck machine so that workloads among the machines are distributed evenly. Work flow Production...

... and S₂ are extracted from the main list S: Equation 2 where p is the number of preceding operations, and: Equation 3 where q is the number of succeeding operations. Work flow Balancing Production scheduling Assembly Simulation Machine scheduling involves...

... a discrete‐event simulation model that includes additional detail. Design/methodology/approach The combined approach is utilised for production scheduling in a steel mill in Finland. Operational performance of the steel mill is measured before and after software installation. The paper presents...

... time and completion time. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Production scheduling Aircraft industry Maintenance Accurate planning, scheduling and control systems are important in enabling airport support services companies to achieve effective and efficient operations...

... comprises three kinds of variables, four kinds of constraints, and two kinds of objectives. The schedule horizon spans from T ′ to T″≥T′+1 for every company in a supply chain. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Supply chain management Production scheduling...

... for improved overall manufacturing efficiency. The case studies showed an improvement of output of 14 per cent and 18 per cent, respectively. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Discrete manufacturing Manufacturing systems Production scheduling Reliability management Productivity rate...

.... The layout of the manufacturing system used in the experimental study is depicted in Figure 3 . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Iterative methods Production scheduling Simulation Today’s manufacturing environment has exhibited some new features: global competition, shortened...

..., … , DEV_m}. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Manufacturing systems Production scheduling Bills of materials Programming and algorithm theory Computer aided manufacturing Currently, the rapid progress of information and network techniques is impelling the globalization of manufacturing...

...K.W. Keung; W.H. Ip; C.Y. Chan Presents the master production scheduling (MPS) problem of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS). Earliness/tardiness production scheduling and planning (ETPSP) is one of the solutions used to integrate MRP and JIT effectively. Previous researches on ETPSP have only...

...Alberto De Toni; Guido Nassimbeni; Stefano Tonchia Describes a production scheduler, which utilizes a hybrid push/pull approach to scheduling and exploits the expert system technology in order to obtain satisfactory solutions. The scheduler is applied to a multi‐stage production and inventory...