While revenue management (RM) is traditionally considered a tool of service operations, RM shows considerable potential for application in manufacturing operations. The typical challenges in make-to-order manufacturing are fixed manufacturing capacities and a great variety in offered products, going along with pronounced fluctuations in demand and profitability. Since Harris and Pinder in the m...

Traditional concepts for manufacturing process optimization, e.g., Lean Production and Total Quality Management, represent management-driven and experience-based approaches. The increasing use of cyber-physical systems as well as the digitalization of manufacturing operations management by manufacturing execution systems (MES) lead to enormous amounts of structured and unstructured manufacturin...

Industrial Additive Manufacturing technologies are increasingly being employed in manufacturing environments, yet there has been little consideration of these in terms of manufacturing systems. This paper explores the important concept of control for Industrial Additive Manufacturing Systems, drawing upon data achieved in twelve case studies to identify four feasible control architectures. Usin...

facility layout problems (FLPs) are common problem in several manufacturing industries because FLPs have a great impact on production operations. Efficient manufacturing facility layout design could lead to lower manufacturing costs. Therefore, many sub problems should be addressed and considered from design stage. This research proposes a new framework for mix-model assembly line (MAL) manufac...

Ajit has over 10 years of experience in manufacturing operations and consulting. His functional expertise comprises Industrial Operations, Supply Chain, and Quality and Manufacturing Analytics. He has successfully executed various cost saving, process improvement and business intelligence (BI) projects for leading manufacturing companies. Saurabh has over three years of industry experience in t...

A number of current manufacturing sectors are striving hard to introduce innovative long-term strategies into their operations. As a result, many scholarly studies have found it fruitful to investigate advanced manufacturing strategies such as agile, computer-integrated, and cellular manufacturing. Through the example of downstream cases, manufacturing sectors have learned that financial benefi...

In this document some efficiency measures of the operation of a serial line manufacturing are discussed from a stochastic approach. In this work we use the concept of operations decoupling in manufacturing systems to place buffers between each operation in order to reduce sequential interdependence between downstream and upstream operations. This will also maintain the output of the production ...

J.C. Wortmann Department of Indusuial Engineering and Management Science. Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven. The Netherlands. This paper gives an overview of the Factory Of the Future (FOF) project (ESPRIT 3143). FOF aims at an integration of several fragmented theories about the (re)design of production systems. Such an integration is a prerequisite for a prope...

Condition monitoring systems of manufacturing processes have been recognised in recent years as one of the key technologies that provide the competitive advantage in many manufacturing environments. It is capable of providing essential means to reduce cost, increase productivity, improve quality and prevent damage to the machine or work-piece. Turning operations are considered one of the most c...

We present a maintenance scheduling problem arising from semi-conductor manufacturing which is characterized by low resource contention and multiple complex objectives and preferences. Since semi-conductor manufacturing involves a very high degree of uncertainty at the level of detailed operations, such as machine availability, yield, and processing times, generating a maintenance schedule whic...