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Comparison of Production-Line Control Mechanisms |
We study the performance of the kanban, minimal blocking, basestock,
CON-WIP, and hybrid kanban-CONWIP control policies in a four-machine
tandem production line making parts for an automobile assembly line.
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Activity-Based Costing Approach to Equipment Selection Problem For
Flexible Manufacturing Systems |
The equipment selection problem is essential in manufacturing today.
It typically involves the selection of a set of equipment to be used
in production based on technical and economical criteria. This paper
will focus on an activity-based costing approach to the equipment
selection problem for flexible manufacturing systems. pdf-file |
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Adoption of Internet Technology in Manufacturing |
Operational Factors that Influence the Successful Adoption of
Internet Technology in Manufacturing. Pdf-file. October 2002 |
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Benchmarking and Configuration of Workflow Management Systems |
Workflow management systems (WFMS) are a cornerstone of
mission-criticial, possibly cross-organizational business processes.
For largescale applications both their performance and availability
are crucial factors, and the system needs to be properly configured
to meet the application demands. |
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Cellular Manufacturing System Design |
A Kaizen Based Approach for Cellular Manufacturing System Design: A
Case Study. Pdf-file |
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Company Relocation |
Planning ahead can make relocating your company a headache-free
experience |
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Continuous-Time Production Planning |
Models and Solving Procedures for Continuous-Time Production
Planning. Pdf-file |
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Defining Manufacturing Flexibility: A Research Prerequisite |
Thus, in addition to quality, cost and time, flexibility has become
an important competitive weapon for manufacturing companies. In the
manufacturing flexibility field, understanding, classifying and
measuring manufacturing flexibility is very important to researchers
and practitioners alike as the concepts, as expressed in the
literature, are at best vague and at worst, confusing. pdf-file.
2004 |
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Design and Operation of Manufacturing Systems |
The Control-Point Policy. Pdf-file 2000 |
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Disposable Factories |
Since the 1980s, manufacturing executives have invested billions in
flexible automation. Now that approach may be too inflexible and
capital intensive. A better option could be to build product- and
capacity-specific facilities that get written off if the market or
the environment changes. pdf-file 2006 |
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Dynamic Pricing Strategies for Multi-Product Revenue Management
Problems |
Consider a firm that owns a fixed capacity of a resource that is
consumed in the production or delivery of multiple products. The
firm’s problem is to maximize its total expected revenues over a
finite horizon either by choosing a dynamic pricing strategy for
each product, or, if prices are fixed, by selecting a dynamic rule
that controls the allocation of capacity to requests for the
different products. pdf-file 2004 |
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End-to-End Pull |
Eradicating the "high-inventory-poor-service-level" problem. |
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Factories Of The Future |
The most crucial investment for the factory of the future will be
made not in hardware or software, but in understanding how
manufacturing technology provides new options to power business
success. |
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Functional thinking in production process environment |
Functional thinking is described as a way to practice innovation and
lead to new insights than what is known in process analysis, added
value and method study. Pdf-file 160 KB. June 2003 |
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Global production network planning at Caterpillar Inc: a case study |
Caterpillar Inc. is the largest maker of construction and mining
equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas
turbines in the world. It requires a global production network that
can serve ever-changing market dynamics, while maintaining
world-beating standards of cost, quality, service and flexibility. |
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How
to design a production line that has a bottleneck |
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Industrial service network design: configuring multi-organisational
networks |
Many manufacturing firms have developed a service dimension to their
product portfolio. However, the provision of product service
solutions has placed an increasingly heavy reliance on networks of
multiple partners to deliver services, often right through to the
point-of-use. |
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Managing Complexity in Plant Maintenance |
Reducing costs and outages in process industries. Uncontained
complexity in plant maintenance can breed inefficiency, extend plant
outages and increase costs. A six-step approach mitigates the "bad"
complexity while increasing sales and revenue potential. |
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Market Segmentation and Product Technology Selection for
Remanufacturable Products |
Remanufacturing is a production strategy whose goal is to recover
the residual value of used products. Used products can be
remanufactured at a lower cost than the initial production cost, but
remanufactured products are valued less than new products by
consumers. |
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Mechanisms for Building and Sustaining Operations Improvement |
This article aims to provide some insight into the methods that can
be deployed to build rapid and sustained improvement, by first
looking at the recent history of operations improvement methods,
then describing a new framework for mapping improvement paths and
using it to characterize the strategies deployed by some of the
world’s fastest improvers. pdf-file 1996 |
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Paths For Progress |
World-class plants combine best practices, teamwork, and technology
to achieve optimal performance. (Nov 2000) |
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Probabilistic Analysis of Multi-Item Capacitated Lot Sizing Problems |
This paper conducts a probabilistic analysis of an important class
of heuristics for multi-item capacitated lot sizing problems. Pdf-file
2004 |
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Production Management Systems Elevate Product Lifecycle Management
Solutions to a New Level |
Production Management (PM), or Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES),
are integral components of an end-to-end Product Lifecycle
Management (PLM) solution. |
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Relocate? Transform? Which Option Is Right? |
According to the latest research from Booz Allen Hamilton, many
low-cost manufacturers may be more expensive than they appear. In
this article, the authors find that unexpected costs and
inefficiencies are commonplace, and that offshoring is not always
the soundest business decision. 2006 |
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Service Factory: Strategic Marketing Planning Implications for the
Small Manufacturing Manager |
This paper presents the strategic marketing planning process as a
useful framework for the small manufacturer to use so that these
services may receive a central focus. pdf |
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Technology Management: a process approach |
This paper proposes a framework for the management of technology
based on process thinking. Pdf-file 1995 |
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The
Coordination of Global Manufacturing |
Production capacity is now sufficiently flexible in some industries,
to be viewed as a commodity. Technological change has raised the
prospect of global markets for a variety of types of flexible
manufacturing capacity. This paper outlines technological and
commercial conditions under which markets for flexible manufacturing
capacity are likely to arise, describes an industry in which a
capacity market exists, and explores desiderata for such markets.
1993 |
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The
Discipline of Product Management |
Product development is the process of designing, building,
operating, and maintaining a good or service. Pdf-file |
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The
End of the Line for Mass Production |
No Time for Batches & Queues |
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The
Pull System Mystery Explained |
Going forward by moving backward is how one author described a pull
system. Others use the analogies of drums, buffers and rope to
explain how to "pull" production through a manufacturing shop. |
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The
Service Revolution - Manufacturing's missing crown jewel
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With unprecedented pressures on product margins and the threat of
commoditization, services may the best opportunity for profit and
differentiation. T |
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Total Productive Maintenance - Implementation |
Companies that have been successful usually follow an implementation
plan that includes the following 12 steps |
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Total Productive Maintenance - Overview |
Continuous flow manufacturing will not allow for frequent, unplanned
equipment down-time. TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) is an
excellent method for meeting the demands continuous flow
manufacturing places on equipment. |
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Using planning steps for production planning |
Disruptions during plan executions cause generated productions plans
to be useless. A new planning methodology for coping with this
uncertainty caused by disruptions is presented. Pdf-file |
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Visual Management: More than Just a Pretty Plant |
One of the most widely publicized elements of lean manufacturing is
visual factory or “5S.” The term “5S” is derived from five Japanese
words that refer to cleanliness, order, and discipline. These
concepts are the foundation of industrial housekeeping and workplace
organization. |
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