Flow production lines with finite buffer capacities are used in practice for mass production,
eg, in the automotive and food industries. The decision regarding the allocation of buffer …

Optimal control is a convenient way to develop both supply chain process optimization
models and describe the dynamics of process fulfillment. A rich diversity of knowledge has …

Solving the buffer allocation problem (BAP) in long production lines is difficult because it is
an NP-hard problem. In this paper, we propose a new approach to solve the BAP for long …

The supply of flow lines is often assumed to be unlimited or to follow certain distributions.
However, this assumption may not always be realistic, as flow lines are usually an integral …

With the development of e-commerce, in agriculture supply chain, online auction is adopted
as an inventory clearing tool. Comparing to mathematical models studying inventory control …

Simulation optimisation has gained a great attention due to its success in the design of
complex manufacturing systems. In this paper, we look at manufacturing as a special class …

One of the main problems in production systems is the buffer sizing. Choosing the right
buffer size, at each production stage, that allows to achieve some performance measure …

The consideration of demand variability in Multi-Product Lean Manufacturing Environment
(MPLME) is an innovation in production system engineering. Manufacturing systems that fail …

To enhance the level of precast production management, and to reduce the costs of precast
production, a lean precast production system is developed based on the constant work-in …

With the proliferation of e-commerce, the regional hub of a large-scale logistics company is
required to sort and load a large number of packages into different delivery vehicles by …