Research Reports from the Department of Operations

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

11-1-1986

Abstract

Production management refers to the functions production planning and factory/shop floor control. There are a number of production management problems that are amenable to operations research techniques. The most popular of these are assembly line balancing, inventory control, and scheduling. This paper deals with some of the shop floor control problems which occur in a flexible manufacturing system for automated metal removal.

Keywords

Operations research, Integer programming, Production management, Flexible manufacturing systems, Business logistics--Planning, Production scheduling, Industrial management

Publication Title

Technical Memorandums from the Department of Operations, School of Management, Case Western Reserve University

Issue

Technical memorandum no. 588

Rights

This work is in the public domain and may be freely downloaded for personal or academic use

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