Special issue: Advanced production system, production design and production management

International Journal of Product Development 10(1-3) 2010

• Real-time control of parts input in flexible production systems by the pattern classification and analogy process
• A proposition of 3D inertial tolerancing to consider the statistical combination of the location and orientation deviations
• Modelling and analysis of manufacturing systems: a review of existing models
• DInvestigation of the potential of implementing Kaizen principles in Jordanian companies
• A concurrent engineering system to integrate a production simulation and CAD system for FTL layout design
• Formalisation of design rules to assist conflict detection in collaborative design
• A study of maintenance contribution to joint production and preventive maintenance scheduling problems in the robustness framework
• An artificial immune system-based algorithm to solve linear and loop layout problems in flexible manufacturing systems
• Ex-CLASS: Extended Cell formation and LAyout Selection considering production parameters with Sequence data
• The effect of inspection errors on the optimal batch size in reworkable production systems with scraps
• An improved heuristic and an exact algorithm for the 2D strip and bin packing problem
• Selection of alternative routings in real time: DMM and modified DMM rules
• A scatter search algorithm for scheduling optimisation of job shop problems
• Grasp stability analysis of two objects with any friction property in two dimensions