Purpose: Computer-aided production engineering simulation is a common approach in the search for improvements to real systems. They are used in various industrial sectors and are a basis for optimization. Such production simulations have found limited use in the wool industry. This study aims to...

Purpose: The research studies the production system having multiple items being processed on the same production line. The objectives are to (1) investigate the influence of production sequence on the optimal value of production run size, (2) explore the effect of production sequence on the...

The market environment of manufacturing companies is characterized by numerous challenges. In the course of individualized mass production, companies are faced with the challenge of efficiently and flexibly fulfilling customer-specific production orders. Consequently, current production is...

The industrial internet of things (IIoT) enhances the capabilities of a production system by adding a cyber layer to it. Cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) capture and analyse production systems data to generate insights for decision making. This allows production systems to achieve...

This thesis addresses the problem of buffer capacity allocation in serial production lines. Both in-process and finished goods buffers are considered. The goal is to develop methods to calculate the smallest, i.e., lean, buffer capacities necessary to ensure the desired production rate or...

Purpose: Industry 4.0 has increased the availability of real-time data in manufacturing systems, but scientific evidence about the value stemming from such data is still lacking in several fields. This paper studies data-driven approaches for the assignment of tasks to a fleet of mobile robots...

The adoption of Smart Manufacturing Systems in manufacturing companies is often seen as a strategy towards achieving improvements in productivity. However, there is little evidence to indicate that UK manufacturing SMEs are prepared for the implementation of such systems. Through the employment...

Many supply chains suffer from a lack of flexibility, adaptability, and robustness, which imposes customer dissatisfaction, transportation, backlog, and rework costs on companies. The mobile supply chain (MSC) is a newly developed idea that aims to rectify this problem. In this kind of supply...

Recycling of products has a great impact on contemporary sustainable business strategies. In this study, a sustainable recycling process in a production-inventory model for an imperfect production system with a fixed ratio of recyclable defective products is introduced. The piecewise constant...

Integrated single-vendor single-buyer problem has received a lot of attention as it is the building block for wider supply chains. This paper considers a manufacturing system in which a single manufacturer procures raw materials from a single supplier, processes them to produce finished...

Most organizations search for factors creating competitive advantage in the current economic world. The reliability process serves as a competitive advantage for different production organizations. The reduced failure rate in the new production systems helps organizations to keep their...

The main source of income and livelihood support to resource poor farmwomen in north-western Himalayan region is livestock-based agricultural activities. Activity analysis showed that 78% of the farmwomen were engaged in domestic activities followed by service (14%) and business (8%). The...

Implications of Industry 4.0 for enterprises in Upper Bavaria are still unclear. This working paper examines how key technologies of Industry 4.0 impact on performance objectives. The research methodology is based on a quantitative study carried out in in the larger area of Upper Bavaria with a...

Purpose: ‘Company Specific Production Systems’ (XPS) aim to adopt ‘best practice’ across plants within a company. A pertinent issue in the literature involves the constraints in the possibilities of realising such an adoption. This paper addresses to what extent and how a Norwegian...

Die diskrete Simulation stellt eine wichtige und etablierte Methode zur Untersuchung des dynamischen Verhaltens von komplexen Produktions- und Logistiksystemen dar. Sie ist daher zur Planung, Steuerung und Kontrolle solcher Systeme unerlässlich, beispielsweise in der Automobilindustrie oder in...

This paper is concerned with the problem of production planning in a flexible manufacturing system consisting of a single or parallel failure-prone machines producing a number of different products. The objective is to choose the rates of production of the various products over time in order to...

"In this book, the author predicts the form of next generation automobile manufacturing, presenting a "New Automobile Global Manufacturing System" (NAGMS) that contains the hardware system with five core elements - "TDS, TPS, TMS, TIS and TJS" (Total Development System, Total Production System,...

"Production planning, operations and control are being transformed by digitization, creating opportunities for automation of decision making, reduction of delays in making and implementing decisions, and significant improvement of production system performance. Meanwhile, to remain competitive,...