This report presents an overview of several approaches to provide a Single System Image view of a cluster, particularly concerning the view of a single address space. The main focus of our work is to understand the current approaches for clustering a regular multithreaded and non-cluster-aware Java application, as well as the current techniques and metrics for scheduling threads in a heterogene...

Job scheduling has always been a challenging task in modern manufacturing and the most real life scheduling problems which involves multi-criteria and multi-machine environments. In this research our direction is largely motivated by the adoption of the Just-In-Time (JIT) philosophy in parallel machines system, where processing times of jobs are controllable. The goal of this paper is to minimi...

Estimation of the optimal size order is one key tasks in determining parameters urban freight restocking system. The existing analytical models and methods are considering each technology separately they do not compare Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) Just-in-tme (JIT) technologies. purpose this research was to evaluate efficiency JIT EOQ would help selecting delivery model, analyzing functioning ...

One of the important elements that have been playing a significant role in today’s global business operations is culture. An important dimension of cultural analysis has been added to its discussion of transferability of JIT/TQM to other countries ever since the Japanese management techniques, JIT and TQM, became popular throughout the world. This paper reviews the transferability of these popu...

In today’s competitive global markets, Just-in-Time (JIT) is one of the main lean manufacturing approaches. It is used in organizations to improve performance and reduce costs and as a strategic core capability to ensure their market position. However, using JIT tightly couples various functions of the Supply Chain and increases the risk of propagating disruptions through the entire system. Thi...

This paper studies the unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem with three minimization objectives – makespan, maximum earliness, and maximum tardiness (METUPMSP). The last two objectives combined are related to just-intime (JIT) performance of a solution. Three hybrid algorithms are presented to solve the MET-UPMSP: reactive GRASP with path relinking, dual-archived memetic algorithm (DAMA...

The successful enterprises deliver products and services in shorter throughput time and turnover inventory as quickly as possible. Three important approaches to achieve these goals are Materials Requirements Planning (MRPI, MRPII), Just-in-Time (JIT), and Theory of Constraints (TOC). TOC seems to be a viable proposition because it does not require costly affair of system change; rather it is si...