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IIE Transactions archives from March 2008
Foreword.
March 1, 2008... This special issue presents innovative results in the area of stochastic models, and their analysis, for the evaluation, design, and operation of manufacturing systems. It contains fourteen articles covering a wide range of topics, including...
Production system design for quality robustness.(Report)
March 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
1.1. Motivation
Production system design has an impact on product quality. However, little research has been performed to address this impact explicitly. Inman et al. (2003) claim that this impact can be significant and...
Effective process times for multi-server flowlines with finite buffers.(Report)
March 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
Multi-server tandem queues with finite buffers commonly occur in industrial practice. The performance of these lines is typically expressed in terms of throughput and flow time. Irregularities in processing play a key role...
Production policies under deteriorating process conditions.(Technical report)
March 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
This paper studies optimal production decisions for a manufacturing system that produces multiple products under deteriorating equipment conditions. In many production environments, the quality or output yield depends...
Work-in-process clearing in supply chain operations planning.(Report)
March 1, 2008... 1. Introduction and literature
Supply Chain Operations Planning (SCOP) is the planning, control and coordination of material release and capacity loading decisions in a supply chain such that predefined customer service levels are met at...
Tactical capacity management under capacity flexibility.(Report)
March 1, 2008... 1. Introduction and related literature
The issue of capacity management is of vital importance in most production systems, especially under demand volatility. In a make-to-stock system with fixed capacity and volatile demand, elevated...
Decentralized multi-product multi-stage systems with backorders.(Report)
March 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
Pull systems have become quite common in manufacturing industries, particularly in large-scale companies and in repetitive manufacturing environments (White et al., 1999; Fullerton and McWatters, 2001). The kanban mechanism...
Performance evaluation of a multi-product system under CONWIP control.(Report)
March 1, 2008... 1. Background and literature review
Manufacturing industries are under increasing pressure to offer a large variety of products to their customers with shorter lead times and at reduced costs. This has led to a significant interest in...
Performance evaluation of two-stage multi-product kanban systems.(Report)
March 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
Several empirical studies document that kanban control bears great potential to significantly improve operations (e.g., White et al. (1999), Fullerton and McWatters (2001) and White and Prybutok (2001)). The main advantage...
Analysis of long flow lines with quality and operational failures.(Report)
March 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
1.1. Motivation
A number of different kinds of analytical models of two-machine-one-buffer (2M1B) lines have been developed for which exact solutions have been found (Dallery and Gershwin, 1992; Gershwin, 1994; Kim,...
Transient behavior of serial production lines with Bernoulli machines.(Report)
March 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
1.1. Problem addressed and main results
Production lines with unreliable machines and finite buffers are characterized by both steady-state performance and transient behavior. The steady-state performance has been...
On the attractiveness of sorting before disassembly in remanufacturing.(Report)
March 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
Owing to the quality heterogeneity of returned used products, firms engaged in remanufacturing activities are obliged to employ 100% inspection of these products to evaluate their quality and suitability for...
A stochastic model for joint inventory and outbound shipment decisions.(Report)
March 1, 2008... 1. Introduction and related literature
In this paper, we analyze an integrated inventory replenishment and outbound shipment scheduling problem which arises in the context of Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI) and third-party...
The value of coordination in a two-echelon supply chain.(Report)
March 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
We study a two-echelon supply chain model consisting of a retailer and a manufacturer reacting to stationary independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) stochastic consumer demand. Both echelons implement a periodic...
A periodic-review inventory model in a fluctuating environment.(Report)
March 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
It is generally true that economic decisions are affected by the prevailing business climate at the time that they are made. For example almost all parameters involved in deciding on an inventory management system are...