International Journal of Operations & Production Management articles from March 1997

International Journal of Operations & Production Management archives from March 1997

The adoption and modelling of the strategic productivity management approach in manufacturing systems.
March 1, 1997... Introduction From time to time, the industrial world has witnessed the emergence of technologies and managerial philosophies due to increased competition. Particularly, this trend has been phenomenal over the last 20 years. A literature...

Simulation analysis of maintenance policies in just-in-time production systems.
March 1, 1997... Introduction In recent years, the just-in-time (JIT) production control system with kanbans has drawn considerable attention of production engineers and managers and has proved to be extremely successful, especially in Japan. The JIT...

Part family formation for variety reduction in flexible manufacturing systems.
March 1, 1997... Introduction In spite of the significant presence of parts coding and classification analysis (PCA) systems in industry, reports on how they are used to effect machine-part clusters are few and far between. Very few of the well known PCA...

Optimal allocation of arrivals to a collection of parallel workstations.
March 1, 1997... Introduction Increasing global competition and rapid technological changes have forced many firms to take a serious look at their manufacturing function and improve their plant efficiency. Significant improvements can be made by...

New trends in parallel machine scheduling.
March 1, 1997... Introduction Parallel machine scheduling (PMS) is used to schedule jobs processed on a series of same-function machines, with optimized objective. Suppose that N jobs [J.sub.j](j = 1, 2,..., N) have to be processed on M machines [M.sub.i]...