1 Einführung in die Problemstellung -- 1.1 Entscheidungsebenen der Produktionsplanung -- 1.2 Randbedingungen der operativen Produktionsplanung -- 1.3 Fallstudie: Chemische Industrie -- 2 Simultane und hierarchische Planung -- 2.1 Simultane Planung -- 2.2 Hierarchische Planung -- 3 Modellierung...

Introduction -- Assembly Systems -- Some Fundamentals -- Preliminary Planning -- Inventory Replenishments -- Single Model Assembly -- Mixed Model Make-to-Stock Assembly -- Mixed Model Make-to-Order Assembly -- Postponement Assembly -- One Station Assembly -- Similarity Index -- Learning Curves.

This book provides a postgraduate audience the keys they need to understand and further develop a set of tools for the efficient computation of lower bounds and valid inequalities in integer programs and combinatorial optimization problems. After discussing the classical approaches described in...

Introduction -- The Two-Machine Flow Shop -- Transfer Lags in the Flow Shop -- The m-Machine Flow Shop -- The Machine Flow Shop -- The Hybrid Flow Shop -- The No-Wait Flow Shop -- Blocking or Limited Buffers in Flow Shops -- Flexible Flow Shops -- Reentrant Flow Shops -- The Robust Flow Shops --...

Finite First Hitting Time versus Stochastic convergence in Particle Swarm Optimisation -- Using Performance Profiles for the Analysis and Design of Benchmark Experiments -- Real-World Parameter Tuning using Factorial Design with Parameter Decomposition -- Evolving Pacing Strategies for Team...

The scope of this book is limited to heuristics, metaheuristics, and approximate methods and algorithms as applied to planning and scheduling problems. While it is not possible to give a comprehensive treatment of this topic in one book, the aim of this work is to provide the reader with a...

Abgrenzung des Untersuchungsbereichs und Begriffsbestimmung -- Anforderungen an ein Verfahren zum Multi-Site-Scheduling -- Modellkonzeption -- Grundmodelle und Lösungsansätze -- Verfahrensentwicklung -- Validierung -- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick.