In today's production world, many of the lines seem unpaced and unbalanced. Inside this book, you will learn new designs for these lines that can lead to more efficiency by taking advantage of inherent imbalance-for example, operators who work at different speeds-a concept that has traditionally...

The eight papers contributed to this special issue of the Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management on trends in Production System Research reveal a rich variety of quality research studies, which attest to the continuing interest of researchers worldwide in exploring new ways to enhance...