... to be successful in the time‐based mold making manufacturing is to produce the molds rapidly and finish them on time to meet the customers' due date. The production time for mold making could be reduced by efficient production scheduling with no need to increase the number of machines or manpower. However...

... making Production scheduling Inventory control There exist many reasons why flexible manufacturing system (FMS) could attract the attention of decision makers (DM) for replacing the old production system. As Stecke (1983) indicated about 50 percent of US expenditures on manufacturing...

... Production scheduling Real time We are entering the “knowledge age” when the customers, not the designers or salesmen, are the kings. Furthermore, with the advances of Internet‐based marketing techniques customers are global and demand increasingly better products at a lower cost. In other words...