Showing papers in "International Journal of Production Economics in 1992"

TL;DR: In this paper, the trade-off between kitting and line stocking is discussed and a descriptive model which can be used to quantify the tradeoff in material handling, space requirements, and work-in-process is presented.

TL;DR: Formulations of the EOQ type are presented for controlling inventories of repairable items and are modified to account for multiple items that share a common and limited repair capacity.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple Cost-Benefit Model is developed to illustrate this aspect, which integrates quality costs and the wider range of benefits of quality improvement, and is of limited use in a TQM program.

TL;DR: A framework for the designing of maintenance concepts is presented and the requirements to be met by a maintenance concept are specified.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered two Just-In-Time (JIT) purchasing models, one utilizing a few sources and the other using the more conventional single source, and addressed the issue of splitting a large order quantity into multiple deliveries, taking account of the increase in the aggregate ordering, transportation, and inspection costs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of routine and exception EDI transactions on the quality improvement and inventory reduction programs of 65 outside processors employed by LTV Steel, one of the major steel producers in the US, were investigated.

TL;DR: It is proved that the ratio between the production interval and delivery interval must be an integer in an optimal solution, which provides the basis for a very simple, optimal solution procedure.

TL;DR: An alternative “dynamic” approach to analyzing operations management, which deals explicitly with four elements not considered by most static approaches: knowledge, learning, contingencies, and problem solving.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors model the capacity allocation problem as a two-stage decision problem: investment and allocation, and show that if initial capacities are lower than the levels that would be optimal in absence of initial capacities, the investment decision is a simple "acquire-up-to" (optimal levels) for each capacity type.

TL;DR: In this article, the inventory level dependent demand rate situation in generalized EOQ models is considered and an interesting result linking the total inventory cost and the optimal policy for such a frame work is obtained and is shown to be consistent for all the models discussed in the paper.

TL;DR: An attempt has been made to overcome deficiencies in the existing literature on evaluation of advanced manufacturing systems by presenting an approach to account for the justification of the manufacturing system based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors make the claim that not all companies are willing to embrace the fundamentals of total quality management (TQM) and goes on to outline six levels of adoption.

TL;DR: In this paper, order-level inventory models for deteriorating items have been developed and solved with and without shortages, and the finite production rate is proportional to the demand rate which is time-dependent.

TL;DR: This paper presents a branch-and-bound algorithms for scheduling in the flowshop with parallel processors and relaxes the assumption that every stage has a single processor.

TL;DR: It is shown that DLB can increase efficiency even when buffers are absent, and this improvement is a result of using more information when deciding who should do the shared task.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model to illustrate the interrelations of partial and dispersed knowledge, which is used to assess possibilities to improve maintenance in an enterprise, and the structure of the model is explained in detail.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between different approaches for modelling production opportunities has been investigated regarding input-output analysis and material requirements planning concerning mainly one-period cases, not taking intertemporal considerations such as inventories, the time-phasing of orders, etc, into account.

TL;DR: The output of SPARTA II includes the list of recommended stocks of spares, the calculated reliability with and without the spares recommended, and suggestions concerning further investment in spare parts.

TL;DR: Formal methods of updating delay-time models of industrial inspection practice associated with maintenance and the scope for updating the prior model through modifying the perceived degree of perfectness of inspection are proposed.

TL;DR: A survey of recent research relating to considerations in pallet packing, the models and solution procedures used in the packing, and implementation of these approaches in a palletization station can be found in this paper.

TL;DR: It is emphasized that factors such as ECOs and raw material discrepancies must be better managed to improve shop response time.

TL;DR: The thesis, conveyed in this paper, is that often performance can be improved far more by changing one of the givens, without any optimization, rather than by optimizing subject to the given set of conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the optimality and efficiency of job sequences in the context of the well studied flow-time problem is discussed, where the authors focus on the identification of expectation-variance efficient sequences.

TL;DR: Instead of MCE a different measure, Value Added Efficiency (VAE), is proposed, which — as shown in another example — provides a more realistic result.

TL;DR: In this article, Farrell's notions of efficiency are formulated for a rate of return regulated firm and a rate-of-return (RoR) metric is used to evaluate its efficiency.

TL;DR: It is argued that bottleneck scheduling could be the first step in developing an integrated approach to materials control and taking account of bottleneck resources when scheduling impacts favourably on performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how to incorporate yield randomness into the classical order point/order quantity inventory model, and discuss its implications in both binomial and stochastically proportional yields in both backordering and lost sales environments.

TL;DR: Before attempting to implement JIT in low-volume, hi-tech production system it should be and can be pre-tested and aided by simulation to obtain the understanding of executives and operators, to elicit their questions and suggestions and to implement the system derived from the simulations.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of EDI on inventories is quantified by considering EDI systems on; (1) reduced lead time, (2) reduced uncertainty during lead time and (3) reduced ordering cost.

TL;DR: In this article, optimal purchase quantities for firms that regularly purchase items on credit were derived for both wholesale and retail firms operating in developing market-based economies, where the results from these derivations are managerially significant.