This note deals with the problem of minimising the expected sum of quadratic holding and shortage inventory costs when a single, failure-prone machine produces multiple part-types. Shu and Perkins (2001) introduce the problem and, by restricting the set of control policies to the class of...

Flexible manufacturing system (FMS) readily addresses the dynamic needs of the customers in terms of variety and quality. At present, there is a need to produce a wide range of quality products in limited time span. On-time delivery of customers’ orders is critical in make-to-order (MTO)...

In this paper, we focus on outsourcing activities optimization problem in single period setting. In some situations, capacity planning or outsourcing is a one-time event and can be modeled as a single period problem. The aim of this research is to balance the trade-off between two echelons of a...

Kurze Durchlaufzeiten trotz kundenorientierter, variantenreicher Produktion sind in vielen Branchen Bestandteil einer unverzichtbaren Wettbewerbsstrategie. Da die unterschiedlichen Varianten i.d.R. in Konkurrenz um die verfügbare Kapazität der Fertigungsanlagen stehen, ist ein erhöhter...

We introduce the batch sequencing problem with item and batch availability for the single machine and two machine flow-shop case. We propose a genetic algorithm which solves all variants through a decomposition of the problem into a Phase I-Batching and a Phase II-Scheduling decision. The batch...