Utilizing the automatic assembly machines effectively is critical for electronics assembly operations. This paper develops an optimization model and methodology to assign product families to parallel placement machines in a high mix, low volume environment. Unlike strategic and operational...

In this survey we examine ways to reformulate integer and mixed integer programs. Typically, but not exclusively, one reformulates so as to obtain stronger linear programming relaxations, and hence better bounds for use in a branch-and-bound based algorithm. First we cover in detail...