Synchronous manufacturing aims at achieving the benefits of intermittent production lines in other production situations as well. Benefits such as short and constant throughput times and predictable capacity loading can be acquired through an appropriate design of the synchronous manufacturing system and its control system. The work order release decision is an essential part of this control sy...

-One of the most important concepts in production planning is that of the establishment of an overall or aggregate production plan. In this paper, the problem of establishing an aggregate production plan for a manufacturing plant is considered. A new dynamic discrete-time model of capacity planning utilizing concepts arising in positive linear systems (PLS) theory is proposed and its controllab...

Ireland began actively recruiting nurses internationally in 2000. Between 2000 and 2010, 35% of new recruits into the health system were non-EU migrant nurses. Ireland is more heavily reliant upon international nurse recruitment than the UK, New Zealand or Australia. This paper draws on in-depth interviews (N=21) conducted in 2007 with non-EU migrant nurses working in Ireland, a quantitative su...