Manufacturers in a wide range of industries nowadays face the challenge of providing arich product variety at very low cost. This typically requires the implementation of costefficient, flexible production systems. Often, so called mixed-model assembly lines areemployed, where setup operations...

In modern rail-rail transshipment yards huge gantry cranes spanning all railwaytracks allow for an ecient transshipment of containers between differentfreight trains. This way, multiple trains loaded with cargo for varying destinationscan be consolidated to a reduced number of homogeneous...

At cross docking terminals incoming deliveries of inbound trucks are unloaded,sorted, moved across the dock and nally loaded onto outboundtrucks, which immediately leave the terminal towards their next destinationin the distribution chain. Accordingly, a cross dock is a consolidationpoint in a...

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...

Rail-rail transshipment yards are an emerging and more ecient alternative totraditional shunting yards. Instead of a time-consuming reshuing of railcarsvia shunting hills, in these modern yards, huge gantry cranes tranship containersbetween different freight trains. As multiple cranes process...

At rail-road transshipment yards, gantry cranes move containers from freighttrains to trucks and vice versa. They constitute important entities in today'sintermodal transportation systems. Real-world yards are often partitionedinto several disjunct crane areas, so that crane interferences during...

Scheduling landings of aircrafts is an essential problem which is continuouslysolved as part of the daily operations of an airport control tower. All planesin the airspace of an airport are to be assigned to landing slots by the respon-sible air-trac controller. The support of this decision...

Bei der Planung und Gestaltung von Austauschbeziehungen zwischen potenziellen Transaktionspartnernist es hilfreich, wenn vorab Erkenntnisse über das Zustandekommen vonPrädispositionen und Einstellungen über die Austauschobjekte vorliegen, mithin Erkenntnisseüber Präferenzen in...

The mixed-model sequencing problem is to sequence different product models launched downan assembly line, so that work overload at the stations induced by direct succession of multiplelabor-intensive models is avoided. As a concept of clearing overload situations, especiallyapplied by Western...

Mixed-model assembly lines are widely used in a range of production settings,such as the nal assembly of the automotive and electronics industries,where they are applied to mass-produce standardized commodities. One ofthe greatest challenges when installing and reconguring these lines is thevast...