Reducing product delivery time is a key factor for enterprises in increasing their core competitiveness. In order to resolve problems, including lack of a warning and monitoring system for Master Production Schedules (MPS) ...

A pro le is a relation between one response variable and one or more explanatory variables that represent the quality of a product or the performance of a process. Process Capability Indices (PCI) are measured to evaluate ...

Along with the widespread use of Taguchi methods in product design, de nition of the loss function has been integrated with numerous models which require quality cost estimation. In this paper, the economic-statistical ...

This paper considers a multi-skilled project scheduling problem that is a newly developed extension of the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP). The main difference in such problems compared with the ...

In general, reliability is the ability of a system to perform and maintain its functions in routine, as well as hostile or unexpected, circumstances. The Redundancy Allocation Problem (RAP) is a combinatorial problem which ...

With respect to the stochastic hybrid multi-attribute decision making problems with interval probability and unknown attribute weight, a multi-attribute decision making method based on prospect theory is proposed. To begin ...

Choice modelling is valuable for understanding and predicting customer behaviour. This study introduces the Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH) into choice modelling and applies this new technique to model consumer choice ...

This paper develops a model for illustrating how a manufacturer can use his initiative to organize the retailers when they take decisions as independent actors. The candidate retailers are able to distribute product over ...

In previous investigations in the field of flexible flow shop scheduling problem, rework probability for operations was ignored. As these kinds of problems are NP-hard, so we presented an enhanced invasive weed optimization ...

Abstract This paper considers a flexible assembly job shop scheduling problem with the sequence dependent setup times, and its objective is minimization of makespan which integrates the process planning and scheduling ...

In this study a two-echelon single-vendor supply chain is selected to do a cost-based comparison between short-term performances of vendor managed inventory (VMI) and retailer managed inventory (RMI) while the inventory ...