This book applies stochastic models and analytical techniques to such areas of manufacturing as facilities planning, transportation and material handling systems, production scheduling, logistics, supply chain management and productivity and quality models.

The Design of Manufacturing Systems to Cope with Variability -- Modeling Automated Warehouses Using Semi-Open Queueing Networks -- Exact Analysis of Discrete Part Production Lines -- Models of Leveling for Lean Manufacturing Systems -- Value of Advance Demand Information in Production and...

Analysis and Modeling of Manufacturing Systems is a set of papers on some of the newest research and applications of mathematical and computational techniques to manufacturing systems and supply chains. These papers deal with fundamental questions (how to predict factory performance: how to...