We present and solve a tactical capacity planning problem for a manufacturing environment with high process flexibility. Various factors contribute to the complexity of the problem, one of which is product-machine mapping: Each machine may be qualified to produce multiple products and each...

It is usually supposed that tolerance levels are determined by the decision maker in flexible linear programming (FLP) problems. In this paper we shall suppose that the decision maker does not care about the particular values of tolerance levels, but he wishes to keep their sum below a...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine the contribution of company functional areas - production, marketing, and human resources - to strategic flexibility configurations. It also seeks to explore the comparative contributions of functional areas to product innovation....

The flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) is a generalization of the classical job shop scheduling problem that allows to process operations on one machine out of a set of alternative machines. The FJSP is an NP-hard problem consisting of two sub-problems, which are the assignment and the...