Material handling is a loose loop in most assembly plants. Jiist-in-time (JIT) is a management philosophy that strives to eliminate sources of manufacturing waste by producing the right part in the right place at the right time. We propose to apply JIT principles to material handling in assembly plants. Material Kanbans are introduced as an effective means to control and balance the physical ma...

introduction: the term dynamic assessment (da) refers to an assessment, by an active teaching process, of a child's perception, learning, thinking, and problem solving. the process is aimed at modifying an individual's cognitive functioning and observing subsequent changes in learning and problem-solving patterns within the testing situation. da has been advocated as an alternative an...

Many classical graph visualization algorithms have already been developed over the past decades. However, these algorithms face difficulties in practice, such as the overlapping node problem, large graph layout and dynamic graph layout. In order to solve these problems, this paper aims to systematically address algorithmic issues related to a novel framework that describes the process of graph ...

This paper experiments application of different heuristic approaches to a real facility layout problem at a furniture manufacturing company. All the models are compared using AHP, where a number of parameters of interest are employed. The experiment shows that formal layout modelling approaches can be effectively used real problems faced in industry, leading to significant improvements.

Due to the increased competition in manufacturing industries play a driving force towards reducing the manufacturing costs by efficient design of facility layout. The success of manufacturing industries depends on the design of the facility that is able to adapt quickly and effectively for any changes in market requirements, technological changes, etc. The Facility Layout Problem (FLP) is a com...

A new mathematical model based on the alternative process routings in presence of a queuing system in a dynamic cellular manufacturing system has been proposed in this paper.This model integrates two problems of cell formation and inter-cell layout and also an efficiency factor which is defined for minimizing the cell load variation through the maximizing the busy time for all machine types. In...

20 Having a significant impact on the design of many products and industrial systems, such as the subdivi21 sion of a ship, the layout of facilities in a plant or further still the assembly of parts of a mechanism, layout 22 design optimization is at the heart of scientific issues. The design of an optimal layout solution is a critical 23 and complex task due to the increasing demands of design...

Teaching in formal academic environments typically follows a curriculum that specifies learning objectives that need to be met at each phase of a student’s academic progression. In this paper, we address the novel task of identifying document segments in educational material that are relevant for different learning objectives. Using a dynamic programming algorithm based on a vector space repres...

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In this paper a Mixed Integer Dynamic Optimization (MIDO) framework is exploited for combined Unit Commitment and Economic Load Scheduling (UCELS) optimization of power plants. Economic load scheduling optimization problem is formulated as a Dynamic Optimization (DO) problem that allows us to optimize the plant operations by taking into account the time varying dynamics. Dynamic optimization pr...