Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 15 Issue 3

The design of flexible manufacturing systems using an extended unified framework

Henry Y.K. Lau, K.L. Mak

An effective system development paradigm and its associated design tools can streamline the production of flexible manufacturing systems. In view of the technological advances in…

Modelling uncertainty under a multi‐echelon ERP‐controlled manufacturing system

Siau Ching Lenny Koh, Sameh Saad

This paper discusses the experimental work in modelling uncertainty under a multi‐echelon enterprise resource planning (ERP)‐controlled manufacturing system. A new method known as…

Total quality management in strategy and operations: dynamic grounded models

Denis Leonard, Rodney McAdam

The aim of this paper is to explore and represent the dynamic relationship between total quality management (TQM), corporate strategy and resultant business operations. In…

Improved efficiency with production disturbance reduction in manufacturing systems based on discrete‐event simulation

Arne Ingemansson, Gunnar S. Bolmsjö

Discrete‐event simulation (DES) and disturbance reduction techniques are a combination for improving efficiency in manufacturing systems. The DES modelling allows different tests…

Logistic service measurement: a reference framework

Carlo Rafele

Many companies measure their logistic performances using several methods. As a consequence, various sets of indicators can be found in practice and in the literature. In…

A sequencing algorithm for makespan minimization in FMS

Shiu‐Hong Choi, James Siu‐Lung Lee

Job sequencing is an important stage in any hierarchical production control model, especially when a real‐time dispatching rule is not employed. The problems become complicated…

Iterative learning scheduling: a combination of optimization and dispatching rules

Rong‐Lei Sun, Han Ding, Youlun Xiong, Runsheng Du

Dispatching rule‐based scheduling is a kind of dynamic scheduling commonly used in real world applications. Because of the lack of scheduling objective, it cannot optimize the…