Much management accounting research has focused on the provision of periodic, aggregated financiai information to managers for planning and control. Recently, many firms have adopted just-in-time production, total quaiity management, and teamwork practices for their manufacturing operations. These new manufacturing practices rely on increased worker involvement in the control of ail phases of m...

Quality control is an important aspect of manufacturing processes. Product quality of injection molded parts is influenced by the injection molding process. In this study statistical tools were used to develop a model that relates injection molding process variables to part quality. A statistically based model predictive control algorithm was developed for controlling part quality with manipula...

During the manufacturing process in a steel mill, the chemical composition and quality of raw-iron, steel and slack has to be checked several times. The organization of the corresponding list of operations can be classified as a hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with jobs arriving over time and the objective is to minimize the total weighted completion time. Since this problem is known to be ...

MEMS pressure sensors have had broad applications in fields such as mining, medicine, automobiles, and manufacturing. Another application to be explored is in underwater vehicular navigation. Objects within a flow generate pressure variations that characterize the objects’ shape and size. Sensing these pressure variations allows the unique identification and location of obstacles for navigation...

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...

this paper explores the flexile flow lines where setup times are sequence- dependent. the optimization criterion is the minimization of total weighted completion time. we propose an iterated greedy algorithm (iga) to tackle the problem. an experimental evaluation is conducted to evaluate the proposed algorithm and, then, the obtained results of iga are compared against those of some other exist...

To meet the demands of commercial data traffic on the information highway, a new look at managing data is necessary. One projected activity, sharing of point of sale information, is being considered in the Demand Activated Manufacturing Project (DAMA) of the American Textile Partnership (AMTEX) project. A scenario is examined in which 100 000 retail outlets communicate over a period of days. Th...

The increasing penetration of renewable energy sources, the demand for more energy efficient electricity production and the increase in distributed electricity generation causes a shift in the way electricity is produced and consumed. The downside of these changes in the electricity grid is that network stability and controllability becomes more difficult compared to the old situation. The new ...