The lean manufacturing system has helped many companies to improve operational performance, mainly in the automotive and electronic supply chains. Although lean manufacturing revealed to be effective for repetitive systems, some small and medium suppliers, faced with high mix and low volume production, have had difficulty to implement the lean manufacturing. The main objective of this paper is ...

The SharedPlans formalization of collaboration (Grosz and Kraus 1999) stipulates that collaborating agents must commit to certain decision-making processes, but it does not specify those processes. This paper presents a mechanism for group decision making that may be applied to the decisions that agents involved in a SharedPlan need to make: adopting the initial commitment, selecting a recipe, ...

Managing Capacity Flexibility in Make-to-Order Production Environments Fehmi Tanrisever , Douglas Morrice , David Morton c a School of Industrial Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands b Red McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 c Graduate Program in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, The University of T...

The problem of allocation of orders for parts among part suppliers in a customer driven supply chain with operational risk is formulated as a stochastic singleor bi-objective mixed integer program. Given a set of customer orders for products, the decision maker needs to decide fromwhich supplier to purchase parts required for each customer order to minimize total cost and to mitigate the impact...

This paper addresses the short-term capacity planning problem in a make-to-order (MTO) operation environment. A mathematical model is presented to aid an operations manager in an MTO environment to select a set of potential customer orders to maximize the operational profit such that all the selected orders are fulfilled by their deadline. With a given capacity limit on each source for each res...

This introduction to new patterning theories for the vertebrate dentition outlines the historical concepts to explain graded sequences in tooth shape in mammals (incisors, canines, premolars, molars) which change in evolution in a linked manner, constant for each region. The classic developmental models for shape regulation, known as the 'regional field' and 'dental clone' models, were inspired...