International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 17 Issue 3

The adoption and modelling of the strategic productivity management approach in manufacturing systems

R. Murugesh, S.R. Devadasan, P. Aravindan, R. Natarajan

Claims that failure to integrate productivity in total quality management (TQM) projects leads to ineffectiveness in management of manufacturing systems. Establishes a generalized…

Simulation analysis of maintenance policies in just‐in‐time production systems

Mehmet Savsar

Presents a simulation model and the results on the effects of different maintenance policies on performance measures of just‐in‐time production systems under different operating…

Concurrent ordering in JIT production systems

Katsuhiko Takahashi, Nobuto Nakamura, Masanobu Izumi

Deals with the kanban system in just‐in‐time (JIT) production as a system of production planning and inventory control for multi‐stage production inventory systems, Constructs a…

Part family formation for variety reduction in flexible manufacturing systems

O. Felix Offodile, John Grznar

Presents the similarity coefficient method for group technology to alleviate the part family formation problem in flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). Part families are formed in…

Optimal allocation of arrivals to a collection of parallel workstations

Madjid Tavana, Jack Rappaport

Presents a model that minimizes an aggregate measure of waiting times and queue lengths for a collection of workstations. Shows that the naïve allocation of arrivals among…

New trends in parallel machine scheduling

Kokin Lam, Wenxun Xing

Reviews some new trends in parallel machine scheduling (PMS). PMS, as an area of research, is governed by questions that arise in production planning, flexible manufacture…