New Directions for Operations Research in Manufacturing: Proceedings of a Joint US/German Conference, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, July 30-31, 1991

This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Basically five problems areas are addressed by operations research

specialists in the manufacturing domain: theore- tical and practical aspectsin production planning, facility layout, inventory control, tool management and scheduling. Some of these problems can be solved off-line, while

others must be treated as real-time problems impacted by the changing
state of the system. Additionally, all of these problems have to be dealt
with in an integrated systems framework. Several new topics have recently
appeared in the scientific literature which now attract the interest

of operations researchers. These include distributed

real-time scheduling, hierarchical and heterarchical control

systems, integrated algorithms for design, process planning,

and equipment level programming, material handling in a finite capacity resource environment, and designing and implementing distributed data

management systems. The contributions of these proceedings represent new andunique theoretical developments and applications related to these new
topics. They deal with modelling production structures and applying expert systems or neural networks to production systems. Mathematical programming, control theory, simulation, genetic algorithms, tabu search, and

simulated annealing are applied as solutiton techniques.