The purpose of this research was to identify the factors in a wafer fabrication facility that significantly affect the cycle times of two main technologies that are currently in p...
A chemical plant in The Netherlands uses large annual supplies of a bulk chemical. A number of suppliers deliver their parcels from overseas by short sea vessel to a transshipment...
Henk de Swaan Arons, Eelco van Asperen, Rommert De...
Batching jobs in a manufacturing system is a very common policy in most industries. Main reasons for batching are avoidance of setups and/or facilitation of material handling. Bat...
Monte Carlo techniques have long been used (since Buffon's experiment to approximate the value of by tossing a needle onto striped paper) to analyze phenomena which, due to ...
Samarn Chantaravarapan, Ali K. Gunal, Edward J. Wi...
Agent-based modeling is a framework that allows the analysis of distributed command-by-influence using mission-type orders known for over a century as Auftragstaktik in German Arm...