This article focuses on the monitoring of a supply chain dedicated to the mass production of strongly diversified products. Specifically, we are interested in the part of this chain that contributes to the production of a set of alternative modules assembled on a work station of one or several...

The use of the simulation to improve the efficiency and the effectiveness of the service production is indispensable. In addition, the process modeling depends on the objectives and the properties of the approach used (object based simulation, object oriented simulation, agent based simulation)....

In an upstream supply chain dedicated to the mass production of customized products, many sources create production instability: the level and structure of production in the final assembly line, variability of lead times, quality issues, packaging and loading constraints on transportation,...

In an upstream supply chain (USC) dedicated to the mass production of customized products, decentralized management is possible and performing in the steady state, if all the links that precede the final assembly line use periodic replenishment policies. These policies require appropriate safety...

Several formulations to the mixed-model assembly line have been proposed in the literature. Such a problem is concerned with the production of a variety of product models. Vehicles fall into that category. The underlying assumptions of those models are often restrictive, therefore limiting their...

The use of the simulation to improve the efficiency and the effectiveness of the service production is indispensable. In addition, the process modeling depends on the objectives and the properties of the approach used (object based simulation, object oriented simulation, agent based simulation)....

The transition from synchronous supplies to synchronous production represent a possible alternative to the neighbourhood logistics configurations, especially in the automotive industry. It allows to gain, on certain conditions, efficiency and more manoeuvrability faced with a strong variability...

In an environment of mass customization where demand information can be placed in advance with sequencing orders, the question of the best use of this information arises in a supply chain. This situation led the authors to analyze the efficiency of current mechanisms of scheduling coordination...