The cost optimisation in production starts right at the system design stage. An efficient system design calls for certain typical decisions to be made during the conceptual stage of development of the plant technical concept. The type of decisions shall depend upon the availability of the sub-systems, investment cost, cost of operation covering maintenance, manpower and energy (fuel and power)....

In this paper, XBONE, a hybrid medical expert system that supports diagnosis of bone diseases is presented. Diagnosis is based on various patient data and is performed in two stages. In the early stage, diagnosis is based on demographic and clinical data of the patient, whereas in the late stage it is mainly based on nuclear medicine image data. Knowledge is represented via an integrated formal...

Dairy buffalo is the major source of milk production kept under peri-urban, low input production system. There is no practice of feeding animals according to requirements; exposing them to nutritional deficiency with the onset of pregnancy. It leads to a decline in milk yield, which compels the farmers to keep the animals un-bred. The present work was conducted to document, the post-conception ...

by studying the evolution history of budgeting systems, you may discern three stages: in the first stage, controlling role of budget is regarded its major function. in the second stage, budget is considered as a means for management improvement. in the third stage, the role of budget is considered in economic planning, implementation of programs and government performance management. after worl...

We develop bounds and approximations for setting base-stock levels in production-inventory systems with limited production capacity. Our approximations become exact as inventories become critical, meaning either that the target service level is very high or the backorder penalty is very large. Our bounds apply even without this requirement. We consider both single-stage and multi-stage systems....

This study considers the production and inventory management problem of a two-stage semiprocess production system. In case both production stages are physically connected it is obvious that materials are forced to flow. The economic lotsize depends on the holding cost of the endproduct and the combined change-over cost of both production stages. On the other hand this 'flow shop' is forced to p...

The manufacturing industry has to strive continually in order to increase efficiency in product development so as to stay competitive and sustainable. This situation is forcing the manufacturing industry to optimize the utilization of existing manufacturing system to enable the development of mixed products as a combination of existing and new products. A manufacturing system capable of process...

Title of Document: SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF PRODUCTION CONTROL FOR LEAN MANUFACTURING TRANSITION Sean M. Gahagan, Ph.D., 2008 Directed By: Associate Professor Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Department of Mechanical Engineering Lean manufacturing is an operations management philosophy that advocates eliminating waste, including work-in-process (WIP) inventory. A common mechanism for controlling WIP ...

Lean manufacturing is a systematic approach to identifying and eliminating wastes (non-value added activities) through continuous improvement by conveying the product at the pull of the customer in pursuit of production. In a more basic term, more value with less work. Since lean manufacturing eliminates many of the problems associated with poor production scheduling and line balancing, lean ma...