This article addresses multi-stage assembly flow shop for the first time. We propose several industrial applications of this system in which the opening stage has m parallel machines and the following stages (e.g. assembly, transportation, painting, packaging, etc.) complete and prepare products...

Even though research in flow shop production scheduling has been carried out for many decades, there is still a gap between research and application — especially in manufacturing paradigms such as one-of- a-kind production (OKP) that intensely challenges real time adaptive production...

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...

This paper considers the dynamic lot sizing problem of H. M. Wagner and T. M. Whitin with the assumption that the total cost of n setups is a concave nondecreasing function of n. Such setup costs could arise from the worker learning in setups and/or technological improvements in setup methods....