Early in 2003, with continually increasing product variety and production volumes, Dell, Inc. had reached the designed capacity limits of one of its main production facilities, the Morton L. Topfer ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 40, No. 11 (Nov., 1989), pp. 1049-1052 (4 pages) In this paper, a most efficient implementation of Johnson's two-stage algorithm is presented. An ...

Production schedule optimization can help boost manufacturing efficiency, cutting costs and minimizing downtime, so it’s not something business owners shouldn’t take seriously. Opinions expressed by ...

John Clemons is a Solution Consultant for Rockwell Automation. He’s been working in the field of Manufacturing Technology for over 30 years. This year, we’re taking a close look at the use of ...

A master production schedule is used to implement a production plan. The production schedule determines what will be produced, the quantity to be produced, and when the output will be produced. While ...

Despite the many production scheduling solutions available, manufacturers continue to struggle with delayed work orders and procuring materials at the right time. Leadership pressures shop floor ...

Grid computing is a powerful form of distributed computing wherein a network of loosely coupled and geographically separated computers, typically of different computational powers, work together to ...