Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of selected scheduling dispatching rules on the performance of an actual CIM system using different performance measures and to compare the results with the literature. Design/methodology/approach: To achieve this objective, a computer...

With the need of more responsive and resilient manufacturing processes for high value, customised products, Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) remain a very relevant manufacturing approach. Due to their complexity, quality monitoring in these types of systems can be very difficult,...

Purpose: We aim to examine the capacitated multi-item lot sizing problem which is a typical example of a large bucket model, where many different items can be produced on the same machine in one time period. We propose a new approach to determine the production sequence and lot sizes that...

Die Produktionsplanung und -steuerung (PPS) stellt einen zentralen, wenn nicht gar den wichtigsten Erkenntnisgegenstand der produktionswirtschaftlichen Forschung und Lehre dar. Ziel einer grundlegenden produktionswirtschaftlichen Ausbildung sollte es deshalb sein, die Studierenden mit den...

In a recent paper, Fisher et al. (2001) present a method tomitigate end-effects in lot sizing by including a valuation term for end-of-horizon inventory in the objective function of the short-horizon model. Computational tests show that the proposed method outperforms the Wagner-Whitin algorithm...

Die Lieferfähigkeit entwickelt sich zu einem der wichtigsten Wettbewerbsfaktoren für produzierende Unternehmen. Dynamische Parameteränderungen, wie Bedarfsanpassungen oder Störungen, führen insbesondere bei Engpassanlagen zu Problemen und beeinträchtigen den gesamten Produktionsprozess....