New Directions for Operations Research in Manufacturing

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Plenary Address

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Whither Manufacturing and Operations Research?

      • Richard H. F. Jackson

      Pages 3-21

3. Planning and Control

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. An Hierarchical Planning, Loading, Routing and Control Scheme for Flexible Manufacturing Systems

      • Ronald G. Askin, Manbir S. Sodhi, Suvrajeet Sen, Alessandro Agnetis

      Pages 25-39

   3. Analysis of Production Planning and Control (PPC) Systems as an Efficient Combination of Information Activities

      • Günter Fandel

      Pages 40-59

   4. Hierarchical Production Planning in Group Technologies

      • Klaus-Peter Kistner, Stephan Schumacher, Marion Steven

      Pages 60-74

   5. Design of an Information-Based Distributed Production Planning System

      • Joachim Reese

      Pages 75-90

   6. LP-Models in Production Planning and Control

      • D. B. Pressmar

      Pages 91-100

   7. A Realization for a Generic Controller in Production Planning Hierarchies

      • W. J. Davis, S. D. Thompson

      Pages 101-125

4. Genetic Algorithms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. Sequence Scheduling With Genetic Algorithms

      • T. Starkweather, D. Whitley, K. Mathias, S. McDaniel

      Pages 129-148

   3. Local Search in Problem and Heuristic Space for Job Shop Scheduling Genetic Algorithms

      • Robert H. Storer, S. David Wu, Renzo Vaccari

      Pages 149-160

   4. The Application of a Parallel Genetic Algorithm to the n/m/P/C _max Flowshop Problem

      • S. Stöppler, C. Bierwirth

      Pages 161-175

5. Scheduling

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. Scheduling Semiconductor Test Operations: Optimization and Approximation

      • Reha Uzsoy, Chung-Yee Lee, Louis A. Martin-Vega, Jim Hinchman

      Pages 179-199

   3. Job and Tool Scheduling for Flexible Machining Cells

      • S. Webster

      Pages 200-215

   4. Scheduling and Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems - Some Experiences and Observations

      • Richard A. Wysk, Sanjay Joshi, Ning-Shu Bob Yang

      Pages 216-233

   5. Dispatching Issues in Job Shop Scheduling

      • Khosrow Hadavi, Yuan-Wang Hou, Wen-Ling Hsu, David Levy, Michael Pinedo

      Pages 234-245

6. Real-Time Scheduling

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247

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Basically five problems areas are addressed by operations research specialists in the manufacturing domain: theore- tical and practical aspectsin production planning, facility layout, inventory control, tool management and scheduling. Some of these problems can be solved off-line, while others must be treated as real-time problems impacted by the changing state of the system. Additionally, all of these problems have to be dealt with in an integrated systems framework. Several new topics have recently appeared in the scientific literature which now attract the interest of operations researchers. These include distributed real-time scheduling, hierarchical and heterarchical control systems, integrated algorithms for design, process planning, and equipment level programming, material handling in a finite capacity resource environment, and designing and implementing distributed data management systems. The contributions of these proceedings represent new andunique theoretical developments and applications related to these new topics. They deal with modelling production structures and applying expert systems or neural networks to production systems. Mathematical programming, control theory, simulation, genetic algorithms, tabu search, and simulated annealing are applied as solutiton techniques.

• Produktion
• Produktionssysteme
• Unternehmensforschung
• algorithms
• control theory
• genetic algorithms
• inventory
• manufacturing
• mathematical programming
• operations research
• optimization
• production planning
• production systems
• scheduling
• simulation

• Institute of Production Management, Fernuniversität Hagen, Hagen 1, Germany

  Günter Fandel

• The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA

  Thomas Gulledge

• NIST B 124 Metrology, AMFR, Gaithersburg, USA

  Albert Jones

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