This book is an outgrowth of an earlier text that appeared in 1999 under the title “Operations
Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing and Services”, coauthored with Xiuli Chao …

We are pleased to introduce the third edition of the book, and we are thankful to those who
used the book in research and practice and to those who sent us comments and feedback …

Inventories are prevalent everywhere in the commercial world, whether it be in retail stores,
manufacturing facilities, government stockpile material, Federal Reserve banks, or even …

Batching decisions are one of management's instruments to impact performance of goods-
flow systems. There is a vast body of literature on analysis and modeling of batching. This …

Billions of dollars are tied up in the inventories of manufacturing companies which cause
large (interest) costs. A small decrease of the inventory and/or production costs without …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use genetic algorithms (GAs) for solving the
Economic Lot Size Scheduling Problem (ELSP). The ELSP is formulated using the Basic …

In this paper, we formulate the cyclic lot scheduling problem on a single facility with
sequence-dependent setup costs and times and provide a heuristic solution procedure. A …

Consider the problem of scheduling the production of several items in a single facility that
can produce only one item at a time. This problem occurs since it is often economic to …

The economic lot-scheduling problem (ELSP) is an important production scheduling
problem that has been intensively studied over 40 years. Numerous heuristic algorithms …

We propose a method for flow control of parts in a manufacturing system with machines that
require setups. The setup scheduling problem is investigated in the context of a multilevel …