In this paper, we develop the control rules for job shop scheduling based on the Flow Rate Control model. We derive optimal control results for job shops with work station in series (transfer line). We use these results to derive rules which are suboptimal, robust against random events, and easy to implement and expand.

Minimizing the makespan is an important research topic in manufacturing engineering because it accounts for significant production expenses. In bakery manufacturing, ovens are high-energy-consuming machines that run throughout time. Finding optimal combination of and oven idle time decisive objective space can result substantial financial savings. This paper investigates hybrid no-wait flow sho...

In this paper, a new method is presented for TAM/wrapper co-optimization based on hybrid genetic algorithm and twodimensional packing problem. In this method, core test is represented by rectangles, and a hybrid genetic algorithm that provides highly optimal solution for two-dimensional packing problem is introduced for TAM allocation and test scheduling. During the scheduling, the TAM width as...

Constructed wetlands have not been commonly used in Vietnam due to the lack of information in the selection of proper types of constructed wetlands, type of reeds, design parameters and performance efficiency, in tropical climates. This paper focuses on Canna generalis, which is a common reed and easy to grow both in water and wet land conditions. Two kinds of hybrid constructed wetlan...

The recent manufacturing environment is characterized as having diverse products due to mass customization, short production lead-time, and unstable customer demand. Today, the need for flexibility, quick responsiveness, and robustness to system uncertainties in production scheduling decisions has increased significantly. In traditional job shops, tooling is usually assumed as a fixed resource....

In monetary models in which agents are subject to trading shocks there is typically an ex-post inefficiency in that some agents are holding idle balances while others are cash constrained. This inefficiency creates a role for financial intermediaries, such as banks, who accept nominal deposits and make nominal loans. We show that in general financial intermediation improves the allocation and t...