The minimization of the makespan of a printed circuit board assembly process is a complex problem. Decisions involved in this problem concern the specification of the order in which components are to be placed on the board, and the assignment of component types to the feeder slots of the...

In this paper a typical situation arising in the assembly of printed circuit boards is investigated. The planning problem we face is how to assemble boards of different types using a single line of placement machines. From a practical viewpoint, the multiplicity of board types adds significantly...

The customer contacts taking place after a sales transaction and the services involved are of increasing importance in contemporary business models. The responsiveness to service requests is a key dimension in service quality and therefore an important succes factor in this business domain. This...

Since the introduction of exible manufacturing systems, researchers have investigated the various planning and scheduling problems that the users of such systems are facing. Several of these problems are not encountered in more classical production settings, and so called tool mamagement...

The minimization of the makespan of a printed circuit board assembly process is a complex problem. Decisions involved in this problem concern the specification of the order in which components are to be placed on the board, and the assignment of component types to the feeder slots of the...

We study the problem of scheduling maintenance services. Given is a set of mmachines and integral cost-coefficients ai and bi for each machine i (1 i m). Timeis discretized into unit-length periods; in each period at most one machine can beserviced at a given service cost bi. The operating...