Special issue: Reconfigurable manufacturing systems: concepts, technologies and applications

International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management 17(1/2) 2009

• Reconfigurable manufacturing systems: meeting the challenges of a dynamic business paradigm
• Configurable supply chain: framework, methodology and application
• Structure dynamics control-based framework for adaptive reconfiguration of collaborative enterprise networks
• A stochastic programming approach to design the production system flexibility considering the evolution of the part families
• A control design strategy of a reconfigurable manufacturing system
• Dynamic modelling of reconfigurable manufacturing planning and control systems using supervisory control
• A simulated annealing algorithm for dynamic system reconfiguration and production planning in cellular manufacturing
• Production planning of reconfigurable manufacturing systems with stochastic demands using Tabu search
• Layout configuration selection for reconfigurable manufacturing systems using the fuzzy AHP
• BTO supply chain configuration via agent-based negotiation
• Developing taxonomy and model for security centric supply chain management