The manufacturing sector as a whole has undergone remarkable changes in terms of scale,
complexity and technology over the past decades and this applies across most modern high …

Simulation in general and discrete event simulation in particular has been widely used in
manufacturing since the 1960s. The increased computational power accompanied by …

Due to increasing demands on efficiency, quality, and flexibility in manufacturing companies
today, it has become very important to structure the development process of manufacturing …

In the last years, the increase of data availability together with enhanced computation
capabilities empowered researchers to conceive production planning and control methods …

As the industrial requirements change at a rapid pace due to the drastic evolution of
technology, the necessity of quickly investigating potential system alternatives towards a …

Simulation comprises an indispensable set of technological tools and methods for the
successful implementation of digital manufacturing, since it allows for the experimentation …

Simulation modelling is an important instrument in Operational Research for a number of
reasons. It provides a valuable tool for approximating real life behaviour and hence can be …

Much attention has been paid to production planning and control (PPC) in job-shop
manufacturing systems. However, there is a remaining gap between theory and practice, in …

Production Planning and Control draws on practitioner experiences on the shop floor,
covering everything a manufacturing or industrial engineer needs to know on the topic. It …

Nowadays, in a fast-changing production environment, companies have to adapt their
production structures rapidly. Therefore, new methods for production planning and control …