Since its advent, the 'just-in-time'-paradigm has considerable influence on production planning and control. While originally employed for high-volume production, 'just-in-time'-concepts are meanwhile documented for low-volume, make-to-order production as well. An example is the assembly of...

The problem of scheduling multiple, large scale, make-to-order assemblies is considered. Beside "classical" precedence- and resource constraints as known from resource constrained project scheduling we take spatial resource and part availability constraints into account. The objective is to...

Investment projects consist of activities which are interrelated by techno-logical and resource constraints. The timing of payments depends on the scheduling of the activities which is not known a priory. Hence, the decision to be made, is to find a feasible Investment schedule with maximum net...