Service industries have grown significantly in recent years, especially in the advanced economies. The applicability of the Toyota system for manufacturing excellence to other industries has been widely studied. This paper seeks to contribute to this growing body of research by exploring the...

Most educational software packages for management science/operations research (MS/OR) introduced in the 1980s were designed mainly to obtain model solutions efficiently. As an effective teaching (or learning) aid, MS/OR software should be designed as a drill and practice program to encourage the...

This paper considers the transfer batch scheduling problem for a two-stage flowshop with identical parallel machines at each stage. Two cases of separable and inseparable setup times and processing times are examined. A scheduling rule similar to Johnson's rule is suggested to minimize makespan....