Rapid Modelling for Increasing Competitiveness

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Theory Pieces and Review

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Managerial Decision Making and Lead Times: The Impact of Cognitive Illusions

      • Suzanne de Treville, Ulrich Hoffrage, Jeffrey S. Petty

      Pages 3-14

   3. Queueing Networks Modeling Software for Manufacturing

      • Boualem Rabta, Arda Alp, Gerald Reiner

      Pages 15-23

   4. A Review of Decomposition Methods for Open Queueing Networks

      • Boualem Rabta

      Pages 25-42

3. Modelling and Simulation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43

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   2. Parsimonious Modeling and Forecasting of Time Series drifted by Autoregressive Noise

      • Akram M. Chaudhry

      Pages 45-51

   3. Forecast of the Traffic and Performance Evaluation of the BMT Container Terminal (Bejaia’s Harbor)

      • Djamil Aïssani, Smail Adjabi, M. Cherfaoui, T. Benkhellat, N. Medjkoune

      Pages 53-64

   4. A Dynamic Forecasting and Inventory Management Evaluation Approach

      • Johannes Fichtinger, Yvan Nieto, Gerald Reiner

      Pages 65-78

   5. Performance Evaluation of Process Strategies Focussing on Lead Time Reduction Illustrated with an Existing Polymer Supply Chain

      • Dominik Gläßer, Yvan Nieto, Gerald Reiner

      Pages 79-90

   6. A Framework for Economic and Environmental Sustainability and Resilience of Supply Chains

      • Heidrun Rosič, Gerhard Bauer, Werner Jammernegg

      Pages 91-104

   7. An Integrative Approach To Inventory Control

      • Philip Hedenstierna, Per Hilletofth, Olli-Pekka Hilmola

      Pages 105-118

   8. Rapid Modeling of Express Line Systems for Improving Waiting Processes

      • Noémi Kalló, Tamás Koltai

      Pages 119-129

   9. Integrating Kanban Control with Advance Demand Information: Insights from an Analytical Model

      • Ananth Krishnamurthy, Deng Ge

      Pages 131-141

   10. Rapid Modelling in Manufacturing System Design Using Domain Specific Simulators

       • Doug Love, Peter Ball

       Pages 143-154

   11. The Best of Both Worlds - Integrated Application of Analytic Methods and Simulation in Supply Chain Management

       • Reinhold Schodl

       Pages 155-162

   12. Rapid Modeling In A Lean Context

       • Nico J. Vandaele, Inneke Van Nieuwenhuyse

       Pages 163-173

4. Case Study and Action Research

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. The Impact of Lean Management on Business Level Performance and Competitiveness

      • Krisztina Demeter, Dávid Losonci, Zsolt Matyusz, István Jenei

      Pages 177-198

   3. Reducing Service Process Lead-Time Through Inter-Organisational Process Coordination

      • Henri Karppinen, Janne Huiskonen

      Pages 199-207

A Perspective on Two Decades of Rapid Modeling It is an honor for me to be asked to write a foreword to the Proceedings of the 1st Rapid Modeling Conference. In 1987, when I coined the term “Rapid Modeling” to denote queuing modeling of manufacturing systems, I never imagined that two decades later there would be an international conference devoted to this topic! I am delighted to see that there will be around 40 presentations at the conference by leading researchers from aroundthe world, and about half of these presentationsare represented by written papers published in this book. I congratulate the conference organizers and program committee on the success of their efforts to hold the ?rst ever conference on Rapid Modeling. Attendees at this conferencemight?nd it interesting to learn about the history of the term Rapid Modeling in the context it is used here. During the fall of 1986 I was invited to a meeting at the Headquarters of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) in Dearborn, Michigan. By that time I had successfully demonstrated s- eral industry applications of queuing network models at leading manufacturers in the USA. Although in principle the use of queuing networks to model manufact- ing systems was well known in the OR/MS community and many papers had been published,the actual use of suchmodelsby manufacturingprofessionalswas almost nonexistent.

• Lean
• Logistics
• Manufacturing
• Manufacturing System
• Manufacturing System Design
• Operations Management
• Operations Research
• Performance Measurement
• Queuing Networks
• Rapid Modeling
• Simulation
• Supply Chain Management
• linear optimization
• organization
• production
• Engineering Economics

• Institut de l’Entreprise (IENE), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

  Gerald Reiner

Gerald Reiner studied Business Administration in Vienna after an education in Industrial Engineering. In 2001 he received his Doctorate in Business Administration (Quality Management and Production Management) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, where he later received his Habilitation (venia legendi).

Between 1999 and 2006 he was Assistant Professor at the Department of Production Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. He served as visiting professor at Aston Business School (UK) in March 2006 and also at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) from March 2007 to June 2007.

Since February 2007 Gerald Reiner has been a full professor at the Enterprise Institute at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. His research interests lie in the fields of supply chain management, quality management and operations management. He has published articles in International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Operations Management Research, and other leading journals, as well as books and numerous book chapters.

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