Simulation models provide a powerful tool for the analysis of manufacturing systems, but their utility beyond the design stage of the system life cycle is hampered by the high cos...
Lean Manufacturing often simply referred to as Lean is a process management philosophy that aims to improve the way in which products are manufactured. It does this through ide...
Roman van der Krogt, John Geraghty, Mustafa Ramzi ...
Experienced and wise industrial engineering educators and practitioners have long understood that industrial engineering is a coherent discipline encompassing techniques that work...
Karthik Krishna Vasudevan, Ravindra Lote, Edward J...
This paper presents a practical undertaking to solve an industry-specific problem of facility expansion through relocation of an existing production facility to a proposed new fac...
Scheduling is one of the key factors for semiconductor fabrication productivity. Objectives like lot cycle time and throughput must be optimized to push the technological developm...
Andreas Klemmt, Sven Horn, Gerald Weigert, Thomas ...