Strategic planning in manufacturing systems - AHP application to an equipment replacement decision
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The use of analytical hierarchical planning in the strategic planning of manufacturing systems was explored. The approach, which was implemented in the multiple-criteria decision-making tool AutoMan, was applied to the equipment replacement decision problem faced by Germany's Deutsche Aerospace Airbus. The problem, which involved the replacement of several milling machines, required the evaluation of various planning alternatives based on economical and technological measures.
Publication Name: International Journal of Production Economics
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0925-5273
Year: 1995
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Inventory investment, product cycles, and the imperfectly competitive firm
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Dedicated production is preferred over shared production when an effective rotation cycle scheduling is enforced. There is dynamic production when average production cost over the cost of holding inventory is high, and static when it is the opposite. The optimal predictive maintenance policy is also found to be a control limit policy. This means that a limit is existent wherein system deterioration is greater than that limit but is lesser than the breakdown limit.
Publication Name: International Journal of Production Economics
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0925-5273
Year: 1998
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Optimal replacement of a tool subject to random failure
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A quality control problem is evaluated in the cost description of tool wear. The problem involves the establishment of an optimal initial level and resetting time for the wear type process to reach a quality standard. Cost was integrated into the tool's stochastic failure mechanism. Expected average cost was computed and generated a solution based on a system of two nonlinear equations.
Publication Name: International Journal of Production Economics
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0925-5273
Year: 1995
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