The primary purpose of this paper is to describe and illustrate the development of a framework related to proper design of a supply chain, emphasising a systemic approach to models and methods development as part of the operations management and decision sciences curriculum. The underlying premise of the suggested approach is to build an interface between theory, application, and tools and tech...

This chapter will provide an overview of Operations Research (O.R.) from the perspective of an industrial engineer. The focus of the chapter is on the basic philosophy behind O.R. and the so-called “O.R. approach” to solving design and operational problems that industrial engineers commonly encounter. In its most basic form, O.R. may be viewed as a scientific approach to solving problems; it ab...

a National Sun Yat-Sen University, Department of Business Management, 70 Lianhai Road, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan b Tainan University of Technology, Department of Business Administration, 529 Jhongjheng Road, Yongkang Dist., Tainan City 710, Taiwan c University of California at Berkeley, Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, 4121 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720–1777, United...

We review MIT research in manufacturing systems engineering, and we describe current and possible future research activities in this area. This includes advances in decomposition techniques, optimization, token-based control systems analysis, multiple part types, inspection location, data collection and several other topics.

CHAINS OF REUSABLE ARTICLES by Ruth Carrasco-Gallego Submitted to the Departament of Industrial Engineering, Industrial Management and Statistics in partial ful…llment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor by the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) at the ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE INGENIEROS INDUSTRIALES. UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID September 2010 c Escuela Técnica Superior de I...