A mixed-model assembly line requires the solution of a short-term sequencing prob-lem, which decides on the succession of different models launched down the line.A famous solution approach stemming from the Toyota Production System is theso-called Level Scheduling (LS), which aims to distribute...

With increasing cost competition and product variety, providing an efficient Just-in-Time (JIT) supply has become one of the greatest challenges in the use of mixedmodelassembly line production systems. In the present paper, therefore, we proposea new approach for scheduling JIT part supply from...

A mixed-model assembly line requires the solution of a short-term sequencing prob-lem which decides on the succession of different models launched down the line. Afamous solution approach stemming from the Toyota Production System is the socalled Level Scheduling, which aims at distributing the...

In today's mixed-model assembly production, there are two recent trendsin particular, namely increasing vertical integration and the proliferation ofproduct variety, which more and more shift focus to an ecient just-in-timepart supply. In this context, many automobile manufacturers set up...

Nach dem Boom der Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)-Softwarepaketein den 90‘er Jahren, die ihren Fokus auf der innerbetrieblichen Integrationund Optimierung von Geschäftsprozessen hatten, propagieren viele Softwareherstellerund Unternehmensberatungen nun Software zum SupplyChain Management,...

This paper proposes and tests an approximation of the solution of a class of piecewise deterministic control problems, typically used in the modeling of manufacturing flow processes. This approximation uses a stochastic programming approach on a suitably discretized and sampled system.(...)

One of the challenges in manufacturing companies nowadays is to enableappropriate IT support of production planning and execution. Integrated solutionsneed to cover company‐wide and even cross‐company business processes (fromorder receipt to product distribution) and at the same time live up...

Mixed-model assembly lines are of great practical relevance and are widelyused in a range of industries, such as the final assembly of the automotive andelectronics industries. Prior research mainly selected and discussed isolatedproblems rather than considering the whole planning process. In...

Durch die Verkürzung der Produktlebenszyklen und die damit verbundene steigendeAnzahl hochkomplexer Produktneuanläufe wird dem Anlaufmanagement künftig einewachsende Bedeutung zuteil. Diese Aussage wird durch die steigende Anzahl anAufsätzen und diversen Monographien zu diesem Themenkomplex...

The production planning with renewable resources faces several special problems compared tocommon planning methods with inputs which are “always available”. Due to their unsteadiness ingrowth, external influences like weather and natural resources and specific transport and...