Over the last fifty-plus years, the increased complexity and speed of integrated circuits have
radically changed our world. Today, semiconductor manufacturing is perhaps the most …

Many problems in manufacturing systems can be formulated via Markov stochastic
modeling. This paper gives a review and classification of timed models of manufacturing …

Protecting throughput from variance is the key to achieving lean. Workload control (WLC)
accomplishes this in complex make‐to‐order job shops by controlling lead times, capacity …

Scheduling modeling for manufacturing system has always been a great challenge in both
industrial and academic community. With the growing complexity of the manufacturing …

We present hierarchical models for coordinating order acceptance and release planning
under load-dependent lead times. Our integrated models use detailed information at the …

Order release is a key component of Workload Control-a production planning and control
system that aims at balancing workloads across workstations, while ensuring the timely …

In a reentrant production system, an effective job release policy is helpful to increase output
and keep the work in process (WIP) in an acceptable level. This study mainly focuses on the …

Order release is a key component of the Workload Control concept. Jobs do not enter the
shop floor directly–they are retained in a pre-shop pool and released in time to meet due …

In this paper, we report a simulation study on the role of sequence-dependent set-up times
in decision making at the order release level of a workload controlled make-to-order flow …

Production planning and control faces increasing uncertainty, dynamics and complexity.
Autonomous control methods proved themselves as a promising approach for coping with …