Industry 4.0 introduces a shift towards more decentralized planning and control architecture in order to combat the changing production environment. Hence, this paper presents semi-decentralized for high-mix-low-volume industry improve control. The proposed consists of three components: ERP system, global unit, shop floor planning. system’s performance is improved through better use knowledge c...

One subclass of human computation applications are those directed at tasks that involve planning (e.g. tour planning) and scheduling (e.g. conference scheduling). Interestingly, work on these systems shows that even primitive forms of automated oversight on the human contributors helps in significantly improving the effectiveness of the humans/crowd. In this paper, we argue that the automated o...

Sequencing is perhaps the single most important production planning routine for mix flexibility achievement on a shared manufacturing resource. However, unlike discrete manufacturing, there are limited prescribed techniques for sequencing routines in process manufacturing. This paper explores sequencing via the product wheel technique through its application in two case studies.

background operating room (or) planning involves the creation of a “master surgical schedule” in which surgeons are assigned to specific operating rooms (ors) on specific days of a week. the master schedule is typically one or two weeks long repeatable for several months. objectives the purpose of this study was to recommend using a mathematical program to generate a rotation in a way that the ...

The paper examines the problem of forecasting ongoing factory orders and monitoring retail demand, with speci®c reference to high-technology consumer durables. We present evidence of the managerial importance of the problem and, using a case study of a computer peripheral manufacturer, we describe how di€erent data sources and models can be used to increase prediction accuracy. First we examine...

There is widespread interest in the development of a measure of hospital output. This paper describes the problem of measuring the expected cost of the mix of inpatient cases treated in a hospital (hospital case-mix) and a general approach to its solution. The solution is based on a set of homogeneous groups of patients, defined by a patient classification system, and a set of estimated relativ...