POMs prevail

2006 POMS Conference

Mass Customization may be deployed in many different fashions depends on the nature of product characteristics, market segments, and their respective business environments. General trend shifts from personalize crafted, mass produced, to mass customized products throughout recent decades have evolved to unequal influences on today’s customizable product configurations. Life cycle durations and ...

When Should Precaution Prevail

Will common sense prevail?

Any society goes through social movements or fads, in which economically useless things become valued or useful things devalued temporarily. Nowadays, when almost all societies on Earth are connected to each other, we cannot imagine a fad’s going so far that an important technology would actually be discarded. A society that temporarily turned against a powerful technology would continue to see...

Alistair Clark POMS Brazil Paper.PDF

This paper develops a local search approach based on diminishing neighbourhoods for optimizing the planning of a canning line at a drinks manufacturer. The search starts with a very wide range of neighbours to try to avoid early entrapment at a poor local optimum. The neighbourhood narrows as the search progresses in an attempt to home in on a good local optimum with nearly the same value as th...

Editorial: Transparency Must Prevail

The theme of this year’s Peer Review Week is transparency. During the last few decades, I believe that a lack of transparency in the review process has degraded the field of scientific publishing. Authors were frequently left confused and angry when conflicting reviews lead to a rejection or when their paper received an obscure rejection and was not reviewed at all. Some journals still use the ...