Special issue: Production line systems: concepts, methods and applications

International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management 20(1-4) 2010

• The sliding frame – extending the concept to various assembly line balancing problems
• An empirical comparison of improvement heuristics for the mixed-model U-line balancing problem
• The performance of unpaced production lines with unequal operating time variabilities and buffer sizes
• Modelling the allocation of protective capacity to design unbalanced production lines
• Adaptive Kanban control systems for two-stage production lines
• An investigation of the influence of coefficient of variation in the demand distribution on the performance of several lean production control strategies
• System model of production inventory control
• Factorial effects on the performance of closed-loop asynchronous automatic assembly systems
• An overview and comparison of four sequence generating methods for robotic assembly
• Cell formation considering real-life production parameters
• Operator assignment/reassignment problems in incremental cell formation
• Performance evaluation of hybrid-CLP vs. GA: non-permutation flowshop with constrained resequencing buffers
• Supervisory-based capacity allocation control for manufacturing systems
• Multistage production systems with random yields and rigid demand
• Yield management in TFT-LCD manufacturing by using regression and neural network techniques
• Solving the response time variability problem by means of the cross-entropy method
• Note on the behaviour of an improvement heuristic on permutation and blocking flow-shop scheduling
• Optimum design selection of jigs/fixtures using digraph and matrix methods