A manufacturing process quality model for investigating the operation of a manufacturing unit has been developed incorporating the failure mechanism of instantaneous assignable cause, mean drift and standard deviation drift. Describes an illustrative example, showing how the new model can be...

Traditional computer‐based material requirements planning (MRP) systems are usually implemented on large, mini‐computer systems. The MRP module is frequently one, albeit a central one, of a complex of modules together referred to as MRP II or Manufacturing Resources Planning. These systems,...

Sound design, planning and monitoring is critical to the operational and financial success of today′s sophisticated manufacturing and non‐manufacturing systems. Owing to their increasing complexity, discrete‐event simulation is becoming the most acceptable tool to aid planning the design...