The Object Management Group's (OMG) Model Driven Architecture (MDA) strategy envisages a world where models play a more direct role in software production, being amenable to manipulation and transformation by machine. Model Driven Engineering (MDE) is wider in scope than MDA. MDE combines process and analysis with architecture. This article sets out a framework for model driven engineering, which can be used as a point of reference for activity in this area. It proposes an organisation of the modelling 'space' and how to locate models in that space. It discusses different kinds of mappings between models. It explains why process and architecture are tightly connected. It discusses the importance and nature of tools. It identifies the need for defining families of languages and transformations, and for developing techniques for generating/configuring tools from such definitions. It concludes with a call to align metamodelling with formal language engineering techniques.

Model Driven Engineering

Strategic facility location: A review

We develop a shortest augmenting path algorithm for the linear assignment problem. It contains new initialization routines and a special implementation of Dijkstra's shortest path method. For both dense and sparse problems computational experiments show this algorithm to be uniformly faster than the best algorithms from the literature. A Pascal implementation is presented.

A shortest augmenting path algorithm for dense and sparse linear assignment problems

A B S T R A C T This paper aims to provide a systematic overview of the state of the art in energy and resource efficiency increasing methods and techniques in the domain of discrete part manufacturing, with attention for the effectiveness of the available options. For this purpose a structured approach, distinguishing different system scale levels, is applied: starting from a unit process focus, respectively the multi-machine, factory, multi-facility and supply chain levels are covered. Determined by the research contributions reported in literature, the de facto focus of the paper is mainly on energy related aspects of manufacturing. Significant opportunities for systematic efficiency improving measures are identified and summarized in this area. 2012 CIRP.

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Towards Energy and Resource Efficient Manufacturing: A Processes and Systems Approach

https://web.stanford.edu/class/msande312/restricted/klos04facility.pdf

Facility location models for distribution system design

1. Introduction. 2. The Plant Layout Problem. 3. Computerized Layout Planning. 4. Planar Single Facility Location Problems. 5. Storage Systems Layout. 6. Planar Multifacility Location Problems. 7. Network Location Problems. 8. Cyclic Network Location Problems. 9. Advanced Discrete Location Models. Further reading.

Facility Layout and Location: An Analytical Approach

https://isiarticles.com/bundles/Article/pre/pdf/12093.pdf

Research on warehouse operation: A comprehensive review

Research on warehouse design and performance evaluation: A comprehensive review

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/29734/0000070.pdf?sequence=1

Kitting versus line stocking: A conceptual framework and a descriptive model☆

This paper addresses throughput improvement by retrieval sequencing in conventional unit load automated storage/retrieval systems when several retrieval requests are available and dual command cycles are performed. Taking first-come-first-served as the reference sequencing rule, the potential for improvement is identified. A “nearest-neighbor” sequencing rule is proposed as an alternative, an analytic model for its expected performance is developed, and Monte Carlo simulation is used for evaluation. In addition, a lower bound on dual command cycle times is developed, and the dynamic behavior of two heuristic sequencing rules is discussed.

Leon F. McGinnis

Papers

Facility Layout and Location: An Analytical Approach

Research on warehouse operation: A comprehensive review

Research on warehouse design and performance evaluation: A comprehensive review

Kitting versus line stocking: A conceptual framework and a descriptive model☆

On Sequencing Retrievals In An Automated Storage/Retrieval System