A mathematical model is presented for studying the effects of interactions among team members on the process of replacing members of a team in an organization. The model provides the ability to control the number of members that interact with each individual on the team. Through the use of...

Paced or Synchronous assembly lines are a popular class of assembly systems consisting of a series of assembly stations arranged in tandem. Every job (or order) visits all assembly stations in the same sequence and spends the same amount of time (known as the production cycle) at each station....

Introduction -- The Two-Machine Flow Shop -- Transfer Lags in the Flow Shop -- The m-Machine Flow Shop -- The Machine Flow Shop -- The Hybrid Flow Shop -- The No-Wait Flow Shop -- Blocking or Limited Buffers in Flow Shops -- Flexible Flow Shops -- Reentrant Flow Shops -- The Robust Flow Shops --...

Although several monographs and edited volumes have discussed scheduling in general, most of these works survey the field by contributing a single chapter to production systems like flow shops. Flow Shop Scheduling: Theoretical Results, Algorithms, and Applications is solely dedicated to...

A set of manufacturers outsources certain operations to a single third party following the announcement of a booking price for each available day of production. Knowing these costs, manufacturers book available production days in a first-come-first-serve order to optimize their individual cost....