Special issue: Complexity in manufacturing

International Journal of Agile Systems and Management 3(1/2) 2008

• An optimal countermeasure policy to mitigate random capacity disruptions in a production system
• A scatter search method to minimise makespan of cell scheduling problem
• Design of flexible manufacturing cell considering uncertain product mix requirement
• A practice-oriented integrated-enterprise system implementation framework for the manufacturing environment
• Measurement of needed reconfiguration level for manufacturing firms
• Establishing rules to design a minicell-based manufacturing system for mass customisation
• Design and analysis of an automated container handling system in seaports
• Task assignment and scheduling in a constrained manufacturing system using GA
• Using data mining in the manufacturing systems for CAD model analysis and classification
• Optimising the Gaussian-distributed filling process parameters