A Heijunka Board is a Lean Production technique that helps to communicate a timed production plan to the factory floor. Lean advocates that production plans should be generated to level the volume and to level the mix. It is the mix levelling aspect of the Heijunka Board that we are concerned with. In particular, given that a number of products have to be produced on a production line, the orde...

The complex physical nature of the intimate apparel and the unique physiological make-up of each female wearer combine to suggest that consumer behaviour for intimate apparel will be different from that for other apparel. This study examines intimate apparel buying behaviour among fashion conscious and non-fashion conscious Chinese Hong Kong female consumers. The purpose of the study was to exa...

Emerging computer technology, including an infrastructure for virtual enterprises and more capable apparel product development software, is providing an opportunity to reinvent how apparel is produced. The development of an information-rich and unambiguous garment product model would help realize this opportunity. This product model would improve the effectiveness of product development softwar...

Nature of the Industry Workers in the apparel industry transform fabrics produced by textile manufacturers into clothing and accessories that fill the Nation’s retail stores. By cutting and sewing fabrics or other materials, such as leather, rubberized fabrics, plastics, and furs, workers in this industry help to keep us warm, dry, and in style. The apparel industry traditionally has consisted ...

This paper introduces a design for agile manufacturing workcells intended for light mechanical assembly of products made from similar components (i.e. parts families). We define agile manufacturing as the ability to accomplish rapid changeover from the assembly of one product to the assembly of another product. Rapid hardware changeover is made possible through the use of robots, flexible part ...

We study a variant of the Stochastic Economic Lot Scheduling Problem (SELSP) in which a single production facility must produce several grades to meet random stationary demand for each grade from a common finished-goods (FG) inventory buffer with limited storage capacity. Demand that can not be satisfied directly from inventory is lost. Raw material is always available, and the production facil...

1. Abstract Due to rise of environmental awareness and enactment of legislation in recent years, products that reach their end-of-life need to be collected, disassembled and reused / recycled. However, since every component that comprises a product is not reused / recycled from a cost effective standpoint, a product needs not be completely disassembled and only components to be reused / recycle...

We study a variant of the Stochastic Economic Lot Scheduling Problem (SELSP) in which a single production facility must produce several grades to meet random stationary demand for each grade from a common finished-goods (FG) inventory buffer with limited storage capacity. Demand that can not be satisfied directly from inventory is lost. Raw material is always available, and the production facil...

We study a variant of the stochastic economic lot scheduling problem (SELSP) in which a single production facility must produce several different grades of a family of products to meet random stationary demand for each grade from a common finished-goods (FG) inventory buffer with limited storage capacity. Demand that can not be satisfied directly from inventory is lost. Raw material is always a...