Sustainability in the supply chain is becoming more and more important for industrial enterprises in different sectors. This research article focuses on construction supply chains (CSCs) in the Engineer-to-Order (ETO) industry, where every product is almost unique based on specific customer needs and requirements. The development of methods and approaches for more sustainable supply chain manag...

To gain insight into the potential logistical beneets of worker cross-training and agile workforce policies, we study simple models of exible workers in serial production systems. The primary control issue is how to assign workers to jobs/stations over time. Under assumptions of complete worker exibility and collaborative work, we prove that a simple expedite policy minimizes along each sample ...

NUMBER: 003-0027 1 SIXTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF POMS, CHICAGO, IL, APRIL 29 MAY 2, 2005 ADVANCED MANUFACTURING CONTROL SYSTEMS: A SIMULATION COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS Massimo BERTOLINI Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Università degli Studi di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A, 43100 Parma (Italy) Phone:+39 0521 905861 Fax: +39 0521 905705 email: [email protected] Maurizio BEVI...