Download or read book Capacity Planning Under Fuzzy Environment Using Possibilistic Approach written by Gurmail S. Bassan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Currently, capacity planning is receiving more emphasis in management of operations in Industrial Engineering because insufficient capacity may lead to deteriorating delivery performance and high work-in-process inventories. On the other hand excess capacity may lead to wastage of resources. Even the most modern and sophisticated capacity planning systems may face a great deal of uncertainty, imprecision and vagueness due to uncertain market demand, set up resources, capacity constraints, pessimistic time standards, and subjective beliefs of managers etc., leading to inferior planning decisions. Under such circumstances fuzzy models which explicitly consider these uncertainties, generate more robust, flexible and efficient planning. The traditional fuzzy logic-based models though are capable of dealing with some complex capacity-planning systems where various uncertain parameters and vagueness are involved, yet they use complex membership functions to calculate the degree of truth that involve complicated, time consuming and tedious mathematical operations. In this thesis, the solution techniques and methods developed are based on possibility theory. These techniques not only eliminate the need of calculation of complex membership functions but also yield crisp answers to fuzzy problems in capacity planning.

Download or read book Capacity Planning Under Fuzzy Environment written by Manoj Kumar Verma and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, in manufacturing industry, their has been a great deal of interest in capacity planning because the focus is shifting on techniques that determine flexibility of the amount and timing of work center capacity to satisfy the master production schedule. There are several techniques available for preparing work center capacity plans under crisp environment, but there is a scarcity of technique available for finding the required capacity in terms of labor hours under fuzzy environment. In the present thesis, we analyze the Bill of Labor (BOL), Resource Profile (RP) and Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) approaches under fuzzy environment with a variety of assumptions. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the concepts of capacity planning problems considered in the thesis, followed by the literature survey in Chapter 2. The capacity analysis under fuzzy envi onment using BOL approach for rough cut capacity planning (RCCP) is considered in Chapter 3. Assuming that all the components of an item are manufactured in the same time period as the end item, i.e. lead-time offsets are considered to zero. Chapter 4 deals with the capacity analysis under fuzzy environment using RP approach for RCCP by including the lead-time dimension in it. Chapter 5 deals with the capacity requirements planning under fuzzy environment. Finally, conclusion, contribution and recommendations for further research on the aforementioned problems are presented in Chapter 6.

Download or read book Capacity Planning Under Fuzzy Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, in manufacturing industry, their has been a great deal of interest in capacity planning because the focus is shifting on techniques that determine flexibility of the amount and timing of work center capacity to satisfy the master production schedule. There are several techniques available for preparing work center capacity plans under crisp environment, but there is a scarcity of technique available for finding the required capacity in terms of labor hours under fuzzy environment. In the present thesis, we analyze the Bill of Labor (BOL), Resource Profile (RP) and Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) approaches under fuzzy environment with a variety of assumptions. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the concepts of capacity planning problems considered in the thesis, followed by the literature survey in Chapter 2. The capacity analysis under fuzzy envi onment using BOL approach for rough cut capacity planning (RCCP) is considered in Chapter 3. Assuming that all the components of an item are manufactured in the same time period as the end item, i.e. lead-time offsets are considered to zero. Chapter 4 deals with the capacity analysis under fuzzy environment using RP approach for RCCP by including the lead-time dimension in it. Chapter 5 deals with the capacity requirements planning under fuzzy environment. Finally, conclusion, contribution and recommendations for further research on the aforementioned problems are presented in Chapter 6.

Download or read book Supply Chain Management Under Fuzziness written by Cengiz Kahraman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supply Chain Management Under Fuzziness presents recently developed fuzzy models and techniques for supply chain management. These include: fuzzy PROMETHEE, fuzzy AHP, fuzzy ANP, fuzzy VIKOR, fuzzy DEMATEL, fuzzy clustering, fuzzy linear programming, and fuzzy inference systems. The book covers both practical applications and new developments concerning these methods. This book offers an excellent resource for researchers and practitioners in supply chain management and logistics, and will provide them with new suggestions and directions for future research. Moreover, it will support graduate students in their university courses, such as specialized courses on supply chains and logistics, as well as related courses in the fields of industrial engineering, engineering management and business administration.

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Download or read book Mathematics of Uncertainty Modeling in the Analysis of Engineering and Science Problems written by Chakraverty, S. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides the reader with basic concepts for soft computing and other methods for various means of uncertainty in handling solutions, analysis, and applications"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Production and Manufacturing System Management Coordination Approaches and Multi Site Planning written by Renna, Paolo and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents relevant theoretical frameworks and most recent research findings in this area, providing significant theories for research students and scholars to carry out their continuous research as well as practitioners who aim to improve upon their understanding of distributed production planning"--

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Download or read book Fuzzy Methods for Customer Relationship Management and Marketing Applications and Classifications written by Meier, Andreas and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores the possibilities and advantages created by fuzzy methods through the presentation of thorough research and case studies"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Neutrosophic Sets and Systems An International Book Series in Information Science and Engineering vol 21 2018 written by Florentin Smarandache and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Neutrosophic Sets and Systems” has been created for publications on advanced studies in neutrosophy, neutrosophic set, neutrosophic logic, neutrosophic probability, neutrosophic statistics that started in 1995 and their applications in any field, such as the neutrosophic structures developed in algebra, geometry, topology, etc.

Download or read book Renewable Energy Driven Future written by Jingzheng Ren and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-09-16 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to promote the sustainable development of renewable energy and renewable-energy-driven technologies, Renewable-Energy-Driven Future: Technologies, Modelling, Applications, Sustainability and Policies provides a comprehensive view of the advanced renewable technologies and the benefits of utilizing renewable energy sources.Discussing the ways for promoting the sustainable development of renewable energy from the perspectives of technology, modelling, application, sustainability and policy, this book includes the advanced renewable-energy-driven technologies, the models for renewable energy planning and integration, the innovative applications of renewable energy sources, decision-support tools for sustainability assessment and ranking of renewable energy systems, and the regulations and policies of renewable energy.This book can benefit the researchers and experts of renewable energy by helping them to have a holistic view of renewable energy. It can also benefit the policymakers and decision-makers by helping them to make informed decisions. - Presents the advanced renewable-energy-driven technologies and the innovative applications of renewable energy sources - Develops the models for the efficient use of renewable energy, decision-making and the investigation of its climate and economic benefits - Investigates the sustainability of renewable energy systems - Features the regulations and policies of renewable energy

Download or read book Applications of Fuzzy Sets Theory written by Francesco Masulli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-29 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 7th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications, held in Camogli, Italy in July 2007, presented the latest findings in the field. This volume features the refereed proceedings from that meeting. It includes 84 full papers as well as three keynote speeches. The papers are organized into topical sections covering fuzzy set theory, fuzzy information access and retrieval, fuzzy machine learning, and fuzzy architectures and systems.

Download or read book Readings in Fuzzy Sets for Intelligent Systems written by Didier J. Dubois and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings in Fuzzy Sets for Intelligent Systems is a collection of readings that explore the main facets of fuzzy sets and possibility theory and their use in intelligent systems. Basic notions in fuzzy set theory are discussed, along with fuzzy control and approximate reasoning. Uncertainty and informativeness, information processing, and membership, cognition, neural networks, and learning are also considered. Comprised of eight chapters, this book begins with a historical background on fuzzy sets and possibility theory, citing some forerunners who discussed ideas or formal definitions very close to the basic notions introduced by Lotfi Zadeh (1978). The reader is then introduced to fundamental concepts in fuzzy set theory, including symmetric summation and the setting of fuzzy logic; uncertainty and informativeness; and fuzzy control. Subsequent chapters deal with approximate reasoning; information processing; decision and management sciences; and membership, cognition, neural networks, and learning. Numerical methods for fuzzy clustering are described, and adaptive inference in fuzzy knowledge networks is analyzed. This monograph will be of interest to both students and practitioners in the fields of computer science, information science, applied mathematics, and artificial intelligence.

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