Title | New Directions for Operations Research in Manufacturing [electronic resource] : Proceedings of a Joint US/German Conference, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, July 30-31, 1991 / edited by Gรผnter Fandel, Thomas Gulledge, Albert Jones |
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Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1992 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77537-6 |
Descript | X, 530 p. online resource |
I. Plenary Address -- Whither Manufacturing and Operations Research? -- II. Planning and Control -- An Hierarchical Planning, Loading, Routing and Control Scheme for Flexible Manufacturing Systems -- Analysis of Production Planning and Control (PPC) Systems as an Efficient Combination of Information Activities -- Hierarchical Production Planning in Group Technologies -- Design of an Information-Based Distributed Production Planning System -- LP-Models in Production Planning and Control -- A Realization for a Generic Controller in Production Planning Hierarchies -- III. Genetic Algorithms -- Sequence Scheduling with Genetic Algorithms -- Local Search in Problem and Heuristic Space for Job Shop Scheduling Genetic Algorithms -- The Application of a Parallel Genetic Algorithm to the n/m/P/Cmax Flowshop Problem -- IV. Scheduling -- Scheduling Semiconductor Test Operations: Optimization and Approximation -- Job and Tool Scheduling for Flexible Machining Cells -- Scheduling and Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Some Experiences and Observations -- Dispatching Issues in Job Shop Scheduling -- V. Real-Time Scheduling -- Dynamic Task Assignment in Distributed Manufacturing Systems -- An Object-Oriented Knowledge Representation in Real-Time Scheduling -- An Expert System for Distributed Real-Time Scheduling of Factory Communications Resources -- A Rescheduling Procedure for Manufacturing Systems Under Random Disruptions -- VI. Neural Networks -- A Hybrid Approach to Flexible Manufacturing Systems Scheduling Using Neural and Symbolic Processing -- Applying Artificial Neural Networks to Process Planning -- A Hybrid Intelligent Architecture for Automated PCB Assembly -- Neural Networks for Detection of Process Change in Manufacturing Systems -- VII. Applications of Mathematical Programming -- Tabu Search Techniques for the Quadratic Semi-Assignment Problem -- The Impact of Correlated Demands on Integrated Safety Stock Optimization in Multi-stage Manufacturing Systems -- VIII. Applications of Modelling -- An Integrated System Shell Concept for Computer Aided Design and Planning -- Service Level in Multistage MRP and Base Stock Controlled Production Systems -- Rapid Modeling: Methods and Tools for Strategic and Operational Planning of Manufacturing Systems -- Enterprise Models for the Design and Management of Manufacturing Systems -- Responsive Tool Management: Making Fixed Manufacturing Systems More Flexible -- Multicriteria Design of Manufacturing Systems -- List of Sponsors