IIE Transactions articles from April 2007

IIE Transactions archives from April 2007

A hybrid tool buy-off decision policy for automotive sheet metal stamping dies.
April 1, 2007... 1. Introduction Manufacturers purchase standard production tooling to perform common manufacturing operations. These tools generally have known performance characteristics that are used to assess their process capability prior to making...

Line balancing in a just-in-time production environment: balancing multiple U-lines.
April 1, 2007... 1. Introduction The Assembly Line Balancing (ALB) problem is a well-known problem in which a finite set of tasks or work elements are assigned to workstations subject to given precedence relationships. With Type I ALB problems, the...

Approximate analysis of serial flow lines with multiple parallel-machine stations.
April 1, 2007... 1. Introduction and literature review Production or flow lines can be modeled as queuing networks and solved using classical Markovian analysis by assuming, in general, phase-type distributions of the processing times (see Hillier and...

A sequence-pair representation and MIP-model-based heuristic for the facility layout problem with rectangular departments.(Mixed-Integer Programming)
April 1, 2007... 1. Introduction As one of the most important problems in facilities planning, the Facility Layout Problem (FLP) is "concerned with determining the 'most efficient' arrangement of interacting departments within a designated section of a...

Dynamic scheduling of production-assembly networks in a distributed environment.
April 1, 2007... 1. Introduction While most manufactured products are assemblies, there has been very limited attention paid to the simultaneous scheduling of manufactured and assembled jobs in a dynamic job-shop-type environment. Typical assembled...