production planning is performed through diverse methods according to the type of the system it is structured upon. one of the most important steps before production planning is to determine which system best fits the firm, and how the facilities should be designed. both job-shop and group-technology systems have their own pros and cons, each of which is suitable to a specific kind of factory. ...

scheduling has become an attractive area for artificial intelligence researchers. on other hand, in today's real-world manufacturing systems, the importance of an efficient maintenance schedule program cannot be ignored because it plays an important role in the success of manufacturing facilities. a maintenance program may be considered as the heath care of manufacturing machines and equip...

scheduling of production in flexible manufacturing systems (fmss) has been extensively investigated over the past years and it continues to attract the interest of both academic researchers and practitioners. the generation of new and modified production schedules is becoming a necessity in today’s complex manufacturing environment. genetic algorithms are used in this paper to obtain an initial...

during the past two decades business and manufacturing have observed significant and radical changes. companies have used automation in the manufacturing, in order to improve quality and competency. it was expected that along with these changes, management accounting systems, which focus on monitoring and analyzing management decisions, should adapt with and encourage the changes. many authors ...

In this paper, a mixed-integer linearized programming (MINLP) model is presented to design a group layout (GL) of a cellular manufacturing system (CMS) in a dynamic environment with considering production planning (PP) decisions. This model incorporates with an extensive coverage of important manufacturing features used in the design of CMSs. There are also some features that make the presented...

The research in virtual cellular manufacturing (VCM) systems area gains momentum as markets have become more globalised. This is due to turbulent customer demands, characterised by frequent changes in product mix and volume. Therefore, if companies are interested in implementing manufacturing systems that can be quickly restructured with minimal cost and time, the approach of virtual cellular m...

Layout design and the flow of materials have a significant impact on performance of manufacturing system (garments industry) .These can help to increase productivity, reduce work in process and inventory, short production lead time, streamlines the flow of materials, cost and reduce non value added activities from the production process of waiting and transportation, which make the factory meet...