Decision Policies For Production Networks

Author : Dieter Armbruster,Karl G. Kempf
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1447159314

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Decision Policies for Production Networks by Dieter Armbruster,Karl G. Kempf Pdf

The financial results of any manufacturing company can be dramatically impacted by the repetitive decisions required to control a complex production network be it a network of machines in a factory; a network of factories in a company; or a network of companies in a supply chain. Decision Policies for Production Networks presents recent convergent research on developing policies for operating production networks including details of practical control and decision techniques which can be applied to improve the effectiveness and economic efficiency of production networks worldwide. Researchers and practitioners come together to explore a wide variety of approaches to a range of topics including: WIP and equipment management policies, Material release policies, Machine, factory, and supply chain network policies for delivery in the face of supply and demand variability, and Conflicts between complex production network models and their controlling policies. Case studies and relevant mathematical techniques are included to support and explain techniques such as heuristics, global and hierarchical optimization, control theory and filtering approaches related to complex systems or traffic flows. Decision Policies for Production Networks acts as handbook for researchers and practitioners alike, providing findings and information which can be applied to develop methods and advance further research across production networks.

Author : Dieter Armbruster,Karl G. Kempf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857296443

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Decision Policies for Production Networks by Dieter Armbruster,Karl G. Kempf Pdf

The financial results of any manufacturing company can be dramatically impacted by the repetitive decisions required to control a complex production network be it a network of machines in a factory; a network of factories in a company; or a network of companies in a supply chain. Decision Policies for Production Networks presents recent convergent research on developing policies for operating production networks including details of practical control and decision techniques which can be applied to improve the effectiveness and economic efficiency of production networks worldwide. Researchers and practitioners come together to explore a wide variety of approaches to a range of topics including: WIP and equipment management policies, Material release policies, Machine, factory, and supply chain network policies for delivery in the face of supply and demand variability, and Conflicts between complex production network models and their controlling policies. Case studies and relevant mathematical techniques are included to support and explain techniques such as heuristics, global and hierarchical optimization, control theory and filtering approaches related to complex systems or traffic flows. Decision Policies for Production Networks acts as handbook for researchers and practitioners alike, providing findings and information which can be applied to develop methods and advance further research across production networks.

Author : Jan Drahokoupil
Publisher : ETUI
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Contracting out
ISBN : 9782874523663

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The outsourcing challenge by Jan Drahokoupil Pdf

Production networks in many sectors have become increasingly fragmented. Cutting labour costs by lowering pay, increasing work intensity and/or shifting flexibility costs to workers are just some of the motivations for outsourcing. But it can also be used to circumvent employee representation and collective bargaining systems within companies, and labour market regulations in general. Though such intentions may not drive the bulk of outsourcing decisions, any change in company boundaries is likely to impact employment, working conditions and industrial relations in the value chain. This book focuses on the dynamics of outsourcing in Europe from the perspective of employees. In particular, it considers one insufficiently studied aspect: the impact of outsourcing on working conditions and employment relations in companies. The book also collects lessons learned from the efforts of employees and trade unions to shape outsourcing decisions, processes and their impact on employment and working conditions.

Author : Bernard Grabot,Bruno Vallespir,Gomes Samuel,Abdelaziz Bouras,Dimitris Kiritsis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662447390

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Advances in Production Management Systems: Innovative and Knowledge-Based Production Management in a Global-Local World by Bernard Grabot,Bruno Vallespir,Gomes Samuel,Abdelaziz Bouras,Dimitris Kiritsis Pdf

The three volumes IFIP AICT 438, 439, and 440 constitute the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2014, held in Ajaccio, France, in September 2014. The 233 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 271 submissions. They are organized in 6 parts: knowledge discovery and sharing; knowledge-based planning and scheduling; knowledge-based sustainability; knowledge-based services; knowledge-based performance improvement, and case studies.

Author : José Machado,Filomena Soares,Germano Veiga
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1171 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319913346

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Innovation, Engineering and Entrepreneurship by José Machado,Filomena Soares,Germano Veiga Pdf

This book presents endeavors to join synergies in order to create added value for society, using the latest scientific knowledge to boost technology transfer from academia to industry. It potentiates the foundations for the creation of knowledge- and entrepreneurial cooperation networks involving engineering, innovation, and entrepreneurship stakeholders. The Regional HELIX 2018 conference was organized at the University of Minho’s School of Engineering by the MEtRICs and Algoritmi Research Centers, and took place in Guimarães, Portugal, from June 27th to 29th, 2018. After a rigorous peer-review process, 160 were accepted for publication, covering a wide range of topics, including Control, Automation and Robotics; Mechatronics Design, Medical Devices and Wellbeing; Cyber-Physical Systems, IoT and Industry 4.0; Innovations in Industrial Context and Advanced Manufacturing; New Trends in Mechanical Systems Development; Advanced Materials and Innovative Applications; Waste to Energy and Sustainable Environment; Operational Research and Industrial Mathematics; Innovation and Collaborative Arrangements; Entrepreneurship and Internationalization; and Oriented Education for Innovation, Engineering and/or Entrepreneurship.

Author : Hubert Missbauer,Reha Uzsoy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781071603543

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Production Planning with Capacitated Resources and Congestion by Hubert Missbauer,Reha Uzsoy Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive overview of recent developments in production planning. The monograph begins with an introductory chapter reviewing the need for these production planning models, that operate by determining time-phased releases of work into the facility or supply chain, relating these to the Manufacturing Planning and Control (MPC) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) frameworks, that form the basis of most academic research and industrial practice. The extensive body of work on Workload Control is also placed in this context, and proves the need for improved models with a discussion of the difficulties, these approaches encounter. The next two chapters present a detailed review of the state of the art in optimization models based on exogenous planned lead times, and examines the cases where these can take both integer and fractional values. The difficulties arising in estimating planned lead times are consistent with factory behavior which are highlighted, noting that many of these lead to non-convex optimization models. Attempts to address these difficulties by iterative multimodel approaches, that combine simulation and mathematical programming, are also discussed in detail. The next three chapters of the volume address the set of techniques developed using clearing functions, which represent the expected output of a resource in a planning period, as a function of the expected workload of the resource, during that period. The chapters on this subject propose a basic optimization model for multiple products, discuss the difficulties of this model and some possible solutions. It also reviews prior work, and discuss a number of alternative formulations of the clearing function concept with their respective advantages and disadvantages. Applications to lot sizing decisions and a number of other specific problems are also described. This volume concludes with an assessment of the state of the art described in the volume, and several directions for future work.

Author : Johannes Franciscus Maria Koppenjan,Erik-Hans Klijn
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415369401

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Managing Uncertainties in Networks by Johannes Franciscus Maria Koppenjan,Erik-Hans Klijn Pdf

Despite sophisticated technology and knowledge, the strategic networks and games required to solve uncertainties becomes more complex and more important than ever before.

Author : Jafar Rezaei
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030553852

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Strategic Decision Making for Sustainable Management of Industrial Networks by Jafar Rezaei Pdf

This book presents a diverse set of decision-making methodologies to solve some of the most important decisions that most organizations face today. It is an excellent demonstration of some great challenges in our society in the area of sustainability. These great challenges, ranging from sustainability in logistics to the use of renewable energies, needs to be urgently addressed. Sustainability has become one of the most important topics in management and many organizations are taking big steps towards sustainability. Organizations are attempting to use cleaner production technologies and renewable energies sources, to improve health and safety issues within their industries and the products and services they offer. These points involve several important strategic and managerial decisions, highlighted in this book. The book can be used by decision-makers and policy-makers as exemplary guidelines to solve sustainability problems.

Author : Ghaith Rabadi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319260242

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Heuristics, Metaheuristics and Approximate Methods in Planning and Scheduling by Ghaith Rabadi Pdf

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 diverse set of planning and scheduling problems and different heuristic approaches to solve them. The problems range from traditional single stage and parallel machine problems to more modern settings such as robotic cells and flexible job shop networks. Furthermore, some chapters deal with deterministic problems while some others treat stochastic versions of the problems. Unlike most of the literature that deals with planning and scheduling problems in the manufacturing and production environments, in this book the environments were extended to nontraditional applications such as spatial scheduling (optimizing space over time), runway scheduling, and surgical scheduling. The solution methods used in the different chapters of the book also spread from well-established heuristics and metaheuristics such as Genetic Algorithms and Ant Colony Optimization to more recent ones such as Meta-RaPS.

Author : Pan American Health Organization,OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264243606

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Applying Modeling to Improve Health and Economic Policy Decisions in the Americas The Case of Noncommunicable Diseases by Pan American Health Organization,OECD Pdf

The book introduces several models for assessing health and economic policies in relation to NCDs; shows how the models can be used for different diseases or risk factors; and provides case studies of those models’ application in various countries in the Americas.

Author : Salima Delhoum
Publisher : GITO mbH Verlag
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783940019431

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Evaluation of the Impact of Learning Labs on Inventory Control by Salima Delhoum Pdf

Author : Ander Errasti
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781466562943

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Global Production Networks by Ander Errasti Pdf

The phenomenon of globalization has increased in recent decades due to the opening of borders in Eastern Europe and the sudden emergence of other countries in the global trade economy. Yet, the process of becoming global to get access to growing markets or to achieve quality, service, and/or cost advantages from the reconfigured Value Chains is one

Author : Eberhard Abele,Tobias Meyer,Ulrich Näher,Gernot Strube,Richard Sykes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540716532

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Global Production by Eberhard Abele,Tobias Meyer,Ulrich Näher,Gernot Strube,Richard Sykes Pdf

Global production and purchasing operations create a platform for entry into new markets. However, it takes considerable effort to plan and implement a sustainable globalization strategy; this book will help in that task. The wealth of experience and analysis featured in this book is the result of an extensive survey among leading manufacturing companies as well as countless discussions with executives who have personally wrestled with the issues of "going global." The book treats the whole range of management challenges. In breadth and depth, the insights it offers surpass what a manager or most individual companies could acquire on their own.

Author : Vassilis S. Kouikoglou,Yannis A. Phillis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781475754384

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Hybrid Simulation Models of Production Networks by Vassilis S. Kouikoglou,Yannis A. Phillis Pdf

Industrial production is one of the most basic human activities indispensable to the economic activity. Due to its complexity, production is not very well understood and modeled as opposed to traditional fields of inquiry such as physics. This book aims at enhancing rigorous understanding of a particular area of production, that of analysis and optimization of production lines and networks using discrete event models and simulation. To our knowledge, this is the first book treating this subject from the point of view mentioned above. We have arrived at the realization that discrete event models and simulation provide perhaps the best tools to model production lines and networks for a number of reasons. Analysis is precise but demands enormous computational resources, usually unavailable in practical situations. Brute force simulation is also precise but slow when quick decisions are to be made. Approximate analytical models are fast but often unreliable as far as accuracy is concerned. The approach of the book, on the other hand, combines speed and accuracy to an exceptional degree in most practical applications.

Author : Hans de Bruijn,Ernst Ten Heuvelhof
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134042241

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Management in Networks by Hans de Bruijn,Ernst Ten Heuvelhof Pdf

Getting what you want – even if you are the boss – isn’t always easy. Almost every organization, big or small, works among a network of competing interests. Whether it's governments pushing through policies, companies trying to increase profits, or even families deciding where to move house, rarely can decisions be made in isolation from competing interests both within the organization and outside it. In this accessible and straightforward account, Hans de Bruijn and Ernst ten Heuvelhof cast light on multi-stakeholder decision-making. Shunning simplistic model talk, they reveal the nuts and bolts of decision-making within the numerous dilemmas and tensions at work. Using a diverse range of illustrative examples throughout, their perceptive analysis examines how different interests can either support or block change, and the strategies available in managing a variety of stakeholders This insightful text provides both depth of understanding and a wealth of advice. It is invaluable reading to students working in business and management, public administration and organizational studies, plus practitioners – or actors – operating in a range of contexts.