With the ongoing trend of mass-customization and an increasing product variety, just-in-time
part logistics more and more becomes one of the greatest challenges in today's automobile …

Just-in-sequence material supply is the status quo in the automotive industry. In this process,
the assembly sequence of vehicles is set several days prior to production, and …

Customers in the manufacturing sector, especially in the automotive industry, have a high
demand for individualized products at price levels comparable to traditional mass …

We consider a supplier who delivers modules to an original equipment manufacturer (OEM)
just-in-time and just-in-sequence. Production at the supplier is done via a mixed-model …

In this work new logistics concepts for automotive production in the premium segment are
elaborated, assessed and simulated. In the introduction, today's challenges in the premium …

Due to high real estate costs in urban areas, shop floor space is scarce in most brick‐and‐
mortar stores. Maneuvering newly arrived merchandise through narrow aisles during shelf …

We consider the question whether or not high volume automotive production sites can be
transformed to the basic concept of stabilized production. The problem is motivated by the …

An important decision problem when mass-producing customized product to order is the
sequencing problem, which decides on the succession of models launched down a mixed …

In production systems that are based on mixed-model assembly lines, the product sequence
has a crucial impact on the load distribution of the workstations, which constitutes one of the …

The car sequencing (CS) problem seeks a production sequence of different car models
launched down a mixed-model assembly line. The models can be distinguished by selected …