The best way to prepare an organization for a crisis is to start with the training and work backwards to the development of a manual, because crisis management calls for an instinctive understanding of the psychologies involved and a high degree of flexibility. Outlines a typical development...

The IDEF techniques have been developed in projects sponsored by the US Air Force in order to describe, specify and model manufacturing systems in a structured graphical form. These techniques can be classified in two categories: the “modelling” and the “descriptive” varieties. Compares...

Concerns scheduling five jobs through a flow shop with five machines. The distribution of makespans and the distribution of the optimal makespans was obtained by complete enumeration of all the schedules. The effect of the processing times on these distributions was investigated. Three priority...