Increase in the use of computers and hi-tech gadgetry have boosted the semiconductor manufacturing industry tremendously over the past decade. At the same time, exponential rates of growth and innovation combined with cutthroat competition are putting tremendous pressure on the industry to improve manufacturing practices and reduce costs. With considerable existing work in the modeling, simulat...

The Manufacturing Systems Integration (MSI) project at the National Institute o f Standards and Technology i s developing a system architecture that incorporates an integrated production planning and control environment. T h e development of this architecture includes the definition of information models describing the information which needs to b e shared among production management systems (p...

Efficient and effective management of production cost is carried out by identifying the uncertainty in production planning in supply chain. Thus the determination of the uncertainty factors at various levels in a supply chain becomes inevitable so as to ensure minimal Cost for the manufacturing process. Minimizing the total supply chain cost is meant for minimizing labour, material and minimizi...

Manufacturing firms are under many financial and competitive pressures which focus attention on the performance of their manufacturing processes. In this paper the opportunities for improving the environmental impact of products within the constraints of existing manufacturing infrastructure are examined. Approaches which support sustainability in two aspects are proposed, firstly, the provisio...

Production decisions in a manufacturing supply chain are no longer driven by manual systems based on instinct and experience. They are regulated interactions between analysts, production managers and their collective manipulation of policies within the production information system. This paper studies the demand behavior in manufacturing supply chains and its relationships to the logic of produ...

Semiconductor capacity planning is a cross-functional decision that requires coordination between the marketing and manufacturing divisions. We examine main issues of a decentralized coordination scheme in a setting observed at a major US semiconductor manufacturer: marketing managers reserve capacity from manufacturing based on product demands, while attempting to maximize profit; manufacturin...

Global competition and changing customer requirements are putting major challenges in the production planning and control systems of manufacturing enterprises. Production planning and control requires robust methods able to cope with demand variability, processing times variability, routing sequences, resource availability, etc., between other sources of variation. Production planning and contr...

We study collaborative resource planning that arises when resource managers must coordinate their planning with internal or external customers. We envision a setting where geographically dispersed decision makers (agents) coordinate their resource planning using asynchronous, web-enabled mechanisms. We propose the design of such a mechanism where resource allocation is communicated in the form ...

2 Manufacturing companies have historically had an on-off relation with technology. Most have aggressively adopted traditional technologies such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). However, they have been slow in adopting recent digital technologies such as big data analytics, real-time order confirmation, Web-EDI among others. Moreover, most have adopted technologies to varying extent creat...

Many vertical industries within Manufacturing have already entered or are about to enter a new era of mass-customization. Customers expect improved level of service, precise price and date quotes for their personalized orders. Internet communications in general and dedicated e-commerce efforts in particular greatly facilitated the process of taking orders and shipping the requested products to ...