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New Directions for Operations Research in Manufacturing

Proceedings of a Joint US/German Conference, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, July 30–31, 1991

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Günter Fandel

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

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  2. Thomas Gulledge

    1. The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA

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  3. Albert Jones

    1. NIST B 124 Metrology, AMFR, Gaithersburg, USA

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Table of contents (30 papers)

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Directions for Operations Research in Manufacturing

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of a Joint US/German Conference, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, July 30–31, 1991

  • Editors: Günter Fandel, Thomas Gulledge, Albert Jones

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77537-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-77539-0Published: 08 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-77537-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 530

  • Topics: Operations Research, Management Science, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Management, Organization

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