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Book Feedback and Control for Hierarchical Production Planning

Download or read book Feedback and Control for Hierarchical Production Planning written by Larry Richard White and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hierarchical Operations and Supply Chain Planning

Download or read book Hierarchical Operations and Supply Chain Planning written by Tan C. Miller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hierarchical and Supply Chain Planning describes the application of hierarchical planning techniques to all major functional areas of supply chain planning, including production, distribution, warehousing, transportation, inventory management, forecasting and performance management. The book reviews well-known, original hierarchical production planning techniques and implementations dating back several decades and numerous more current hierarchical planning methods and applications covering an array of supply chain activities. A number of novel hierarchical planning techniques and algorithms covering different components of supply chain planning are offered as is an original approach for integrating supply chain measurements into systems such as the balanced scorecard which evaluate total firm performance. The book covers the interests of private industry practitioners, academic researchers, and students of operations, logistics and supply chain management and planning.

Book The Introduction of Feedback Into a Hierarchical Production Planning System

Download or read book The Introduction of Feedback Into a Hierarchical Production Planning System written by Stephen C. Graves and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper proposes and tests a framework for decomposing a large scale production planning problem, modeled as a mixed-integer linear program. We interpret this decomposition in the context of Hax and Meal's hierarchical framework for production planning. The procedure decomposes the production planning problem into two subproblems which correspond to the aggregate planning subproblem and a disaggregation subproblem in the Hax-Meal framework. The linking mechanism for these two subproblems is an inventory consistency relationship which is priced out by a set of Lagrange multipliers. The best values for the multipliers are found by an iterative procedure which may be interpreted as a feedback mechanism in the Hax-Meal framework. At each iterative, the procedure finds both a lower bound on the optimal value to the production planning problem and a feasible solution from which an upper bound is obtained. Our computational tests show that the best feasible solution found from this procedure is very close to optimal. For thirty-six test problems the percentage deviation from optimality never exceeds 4.4%, and the average percentage deviation is 2.2%. Twenty-seven of the test problems are mixed-integer linear programs with 240 zero-one variables, while nine test problems have 480 zero-one variables. (Author).

Book Hierarchical Production Planning

Download or read book Hierarchical Production Planning written by Gabriel R. Bitran and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hierarchical Decision Making in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems

Download or read book Hierarchical Decision Making in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems written by Suresh P. Sethi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important methods in dealing with the optimization of large, complex systems is that of hierarchical decomposition. The idea is to reduce the overall complex problem into manageable approximate problems or subproblems, to solve these problems, and to construct a solution of the original problem from the solutions of these simpler prob lems. Development of such approaches for large complex systems has been identified as a particularly fruitful area by the Committee on the Next Decade in Operations Research (1988) [42] as well as by the Panel on Future Directions in Control Theory (1988) [65]. Most manufacturing firms are complex systems characterized by sev eral decision subsystems, such as finance, personnel, marketing, and op erations. They may have several plants and warehouses and a wide variety of machines and equipment devoted to producing a large number of different products. Moreover, they are subject to deterministic as well as stochastic discrete events, such as purchasing new equipment, hiring and layoff of personnel, and machine setups, failures, and repairs.

Book Production Planning  Modeling and Control of Food Industry Processes

Download or read book Production Planning Modeling and Control of Food Industry Processes written by Pablo Cano Marchal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new approach to the control of food transformation processes, emphasizing the advantage of considering the system as a multivariable one, and taking a holistic approach to the decision-making process in the plant, considering not only the technical but also the economic implications of these decisions. In addition, it presents a hierarchical structure for the global control of the plant, and includes appropriate techniques for each of the control layers. The book addresses the challenges of modeling food transformation processes, using both traditional system-identification techniques and, where these prove impractical, models based on expert knowledge and using fuzzy systems. The construction of optimal controllers for each of these types of models is also discussed, as a means to close a feedback loop on the higher-level outputs of the process. Finally, the problem of production planning is covered from two standpoints: the traditional batch-sizing problem, and the planning of production throughout the season. Systematic season-wide production planning is built upon the models constructed for the control of the plant, and incorporates market- and business-specific information. Examples based on the processing of various foodstuffs help to illustrate the text throughout, while the book’s closing chapter presents a case study on advances in the processing of olive oil. Given its scope, the book will primarily be of interest to two groups of readers: food engineering practitioners and students, who are familiar with the characteristics of food processes but have little or no background in control engineering; and control engineering researchers, students and practitioners, whose situation is just the opposite, and who wish to learn more about food engineering and its specific challenges for control. Advances in Industrial Control reports and encourages the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.

Book Production Planning and Control

Download or read book Production Planning and Control written by Robert H. Bock and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hierarchical Production Planning in Dynamic Stochastic Manufacturing Systems

Download or read book Hierarchical Production Planning in Dynamic Stochastic Manufacturing Systems written by Qing Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents an asymptotic analysis of hierarchical manufacturing systems with stochastic demand and machines subject to breakdown and repair as the rate of change in machine states approaches infinity. This situation gives rise to a limiting problem in which the stochastic machine availability is replaced by the equilibrium mean availability. The value function for the original problem converges to the value function of the limiting problem. Moreover, a control for the original problem can be constructed from the optimal control of the limiting problem in a way which guarantees its asymptotic optimality. Asymptotic properties of the system trajectories are analyzed for both feedback and open loop controls in the system. The convergence rate of the value function for the original problem is found. This helps in providing an error estimate for the constructed asymptotically optimal control.

Book Design of a Hierarchical Production Planning and Inventory Control System for a Consumer Products Manufacturing Network

Download or read book Design of a Hierarchical Production Planning and Inventory Control System for a Consumer Products Manufacturing Network written by Arthur Araujo deGuia and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hierarchical Production Planning

Download or read book Hierarchical Production Planning written by Harlan C. Meal and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Disaggregation

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  • Author : L.P. Ritzman
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-03-09
  • ISBN : 940157636X
  • Pages : 689 pages

Download or read book Disaggregation written by L.P. Ritzman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is intended to expand the dialogue and interest among both practitioners and academicians in a problem area worthy of attention by all. The concept of disaggregation admits to our current inability to solve many types of interrelated hierarchical problems simultaneously. It offers instead a sequential, iterative process as a workable and necessary procedure. The papers in this volume are selected from those presented at a Disaggregation Conference held in March, 1977 at The Ohio State University. We heartily applaud all those who participated in the conference and particularly appreci ate the cooperation of those authors whose work is published in this collection. Part A contains four papers which define the various dimensions of disaggregation. The paper by Martin Starr, which was the text of his luncheon address at the conference, provides several interesting perspectives to the problem. Although disaggregation suggests tear ing apart, as Professor Starr illustrates with his butterfly example, it also suggests a putting together or a synthesis which recognizes interrelationships and dependencies. The next paper by Lee Kra jewski and Larry Ritzman offers a general model of disaggregation for both the manufacturing and service sectors. After reading the papers in this section, as well as the papers in subsequent sections, you will identify other dimensions to hierarchical decision making which go beyond this generalized model.

Book Hierarchical Production Planning Systems

Download or read book Hierarchical Production Planning Systems written by Arnoldo C. Hax and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes the development of hierarchical planning systems to support medium range planning and operational decisions in a batch processing production environment. In this approach, higher level decisions impose constraints to lower level actions, and lower level decisions provide the necessary feedback to reevaluate higher level actions. An analysis of the existing methodology to design hierarchical production systems is given. Computational results are presented.

Book Hierarchical Production Controls in a Stochastic Two Machine Flowshop with a Finite Internal Buffer

Download or read book Hierarchical Production Controls in a Stochastic Two Machine Flowshop with a Finite Internal Buffer written by Suresh Sethi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents an asymptotic analysis of hierarchical production planning in a manufacturing system with two tandem machines that are subject to breakdown and repair. The system produces a single product, whose rate of demand over time is given to be constant. The problem is formulated as a continuous-time dynamic programming problem in which the objective is to minimize the cost of production, inventories, and backlogs. The size of the buffer between the two machines is assumed to be finite. As the rates of change in machines' states approach infinity, the analysis results in a limiting problem in which the stochastic machine capacity is replaced by the average capacity. The value function for the original problem is shown to converge to the value function of the limiting problem. Both open-loop and feedback controls for the original problem are constructed from near-optimal controls of the limiting problem in a way which guarantees their asymptotic optimality as the rates of changes in machines' states become large in comparison to the discount rate. The convergence rate of the value function for the original problem to that of the limiting problem together with the error estimate for the constructed asymptotic optimal controls are obtained. In addition, the constructed feedback control is compared to the Kanban control policy for the stochastic two-machine flowshop.

Book Multi Agent Based Production Planning and Control

Download or read book Multi Agent Based Production Planning and Control written by Jie Zhang and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the crossroads of artificial intelligence, manufacturing engineering, operational research and industrial engineering and management, multi-agent based production planning and control is an intelligent and industrially crucial technology with increasing importance. This book provides a complete overview of multi-agent based methods for today’s competitive manufacturing environment, including the Job Shop Manufacturing and Re-entrant Manufacturing processes. In addition to the basic control and scheduling systems, the author also highlights advance research in numerical optimization methods and wireless sensor networks and their impact on intelligent production planning and control system operation. Enables students, researchers and engineers to understand the fundamentals and theories of multi-agent based production planning and control Written by an author with more than 20 years’ experience in studying and formulating a complete theoretical system in production planning technologies Fully illustrated throughout, the methods for production planning, scheduling and controlling are presented using experiments, numerical simulations and theoretical analysis Comprehensive and concise, Multi-Agent Based Production Planning and Control is aimed at the practicing engineer and graduate student in industrial engineering, operational research, and mechanical engineering. It is also a handy guide for advanced students in artificial intelligence and computer engineering.

Book On the Design of Hierarchical Production Planning Systems

Download or read book On the Design of Hierarchical Production Planning Systems written by Gabriel Richard Bitran and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To provide effective managerial support to the decisions related to the production planning and scheduling processes, it is useful to partition this set of decisions in a hierarchical framework. In the resulting system higher level decisions impose constraints to lower level actions, and lower level decisions provide the necessary feedback to reevaluate higher level actions. The purpose of this paper is to suggest optimum procedures to deal with the resulting subproblems, and to analyze the interaction mechanisms among the different hierarchical levels. Computational results are given. (Author).

Book Handbook of Industrial Robotics

Download or read book Handbook of Industrial Robotics written by Shimon Y. Nof and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-03-02 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrieroboter gehoren heute zum Alltag. In den letzten zehn Jahren verlagerte sich der Schwerpunkt der Neuentwicklungen weg von den Robotern selbst, hin zu alternativen Formen der kunstlichen Intelligenz, mit denen die Gerate ausgestattet werden. Dem Rechnung tragend, beschaftigt sich die zweite Auflage dieses Handbuchs vor allem mit Anwendungen und Strategien zur Problemlosung in der Industrie. Angesprochen werden Themen wie Graphiksimulatoren, objektorientierte Software, Kommunikationssysteme und Mikro- und Nanoroboter. (04/99)

Book Operations Research

Download or read book Operations Research written by Jay E. Aronson and published by IAP. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from a conference honoring Gerald L. Thompson, the pioneer of operations research, this volume brings together some of the latest writings of major figures in the field. The volume is divided into four parts: the first part reviews the career and significance of Thompson, the second concentrates on linear and nonlinear optimization, the third looks at network and integer programming, and the fourth provides examples of applications-oriented research in manufacturing. This volume will be an invaluable resource for all scholars and researchers involved in theory and methodology in operations research and management science.