Public healthcare institutions in India continue to be the major source of healthcare in both rural and urban areas. This study has considered resource utilisation in the context of drug supplies to the public healthcare. Drug inventory management assessment tool (DIMAT) is developed to quantify...

Addresses the problem of sequencing a set of PCBs on a single assembling machine. Considers two objectives, namely minimizing tardiness and minimizing the set‐ups. Reduces component change‐overs by exploiting the similarity between PCBs. Proposes a new measure to sequence the PCBs, taking...