Engineering Production Control Strategies
Engineering Production Control Strategies

Author: Christoph Karrer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-02-25

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 3642241417

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Identifying and customizing suitable control strategies is a challenging task, especially when production systems have to cope with variable demands, forecast error, and unstable processes. The focus of this book lies on helping companies with complex and discrete production systems to tailor a production control strategy to their needs. Thereby, the mutual merits of “push” and “pull” systems are taken into account, leading to hybrid strategies. Consequently, the book addresses practitioners who are interested in looking behind the scenes and into the physics of production control. A real-life case study demonstrates the practical applicability of the presented framework.

Engineering Production Control Strategies
Engineering Production Control Strategies

Author: Christoph Karrer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-02-23

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 3642241425

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Identifying and customizing suitable control strategies is a challenging task, especially when production systems have to cope with variable demands, forecast error, and unstable processes. The focus of this book lies on helping companies with complex and discrete production systems to tailor a production control strategy to their needs. Thereby, the mutual merits of “push” and “pull” systems are taken into account, leading to hybrid strategies. Consequently, the book addresses practitioners who are interested in looking behind the scenes and into the physics of production control. A real-life case study demonstrates the practical applicability of the presented framework.

Stochastic Modeling of Manufacturing Systems
Stochastic Modeling of Manufacturing Systems

Author: George Liberopoulos

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-12-12

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 3540290575

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Manufacturing systems rarely perform exactly as expected and predicted. Unexpected events, such as order changes, equipment failures and product defects, affect the performance of the system and complicate decision-making. This volume is devoted to the development of analytical methods aiming at responding to variability in a way that limits its corrupting effects on system performance. The book includes fifteen novel chapters that mostly focus on the development and analysis of performance evaluation models of manufacturing systems using decomposition-based methods, Markovian and queuing analysis, simulation, and inventory control approaches. They are organized into four distinct sections to reflect their shared viewpoints: factory design, unreliable production lines, queuing network models, production planning and assembly.

Production Management
Production Management

Author: Yacob Khojasteh

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1315394375

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Inventory control is an essential task in production management. An effective inventory control can significantly reduce the holding cost and hence, total production cost. Selecting and implementing a suitable production control system plays an important role in inventory reduction and performance improvement of a production system. Since the introduction of Toyota’s just-in-time philosophy, pull control systems have been adopted by numerous companies worldwide, both in the manufacturing and service sectors. This book provides some recent developments in production management and presents modeling and analysis tools for pull production control systems. It contributes by combining theoretical findings and case study analysis results with a practical and contemporary view on how to effectively manage and control production systems. Each chapter in this book focuses on a specific topic in production control systems, allowing readers to identify the chapters that relate to their interests. More specifically, the book is presented in three sections. The first section focuses on the design and implementation aspects of the pull production control systems, as well as performance evaluation approaches for pull systems. The second section presents a recent and comprehensive literature review. Three different case studies on implementation of pull production control systems are presented in the last section. This book can be used as an essential source for students and scholars who need to specifically study the pull control systems. Since the superiority of these systems is controversial, the book can also provide an interesting and informative read for practitioners, managers, and employees who need to deepen their knowledge on pull production management systems.

Supply Chain Engineering and Logistics Handbook
Supply Chain Engineering and Logistics Handbook

Author: Erick C. Jones

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-11-12

Total Pages: 982

ISBN-13: 1351658530

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This handbook begins with the history of Supply Chain (SC) Engineering, it goes on to explain how the SC is connected today, and rounds out with future trends. The overall merit of the book is that it introduces a framework similar to sundial that allows an organization to determine where their company may fall on the SC Technology Scale. The book will describe those who are using more historic technologies, companies that are using current collaboration tools for connecting their SC to other global SCs, and the SCs that are moving more towards cutting edge technologies. This book will be a handbook for practitioners, a teaching resource for academics, and a guide for military contractors. Some figures in the eBook will be in color. Presents a decision model for choosing the best Supply Chain Engineering (SCE) strategies for Service and Manufacturing Operations with respect to Industrial Engineering and Operations Research techniques Offers an economic comparison model for evaluating SCE strategies for manufacturing outsourcing as opposed to keeping operations in-house Demonstrates how to integrate automation techniques such as RFID into planning and distribution operations Provides case studies of SC inventory reductions using automation from AIT and RFID research Covers planning and scheduling, as well as transportation and SC theory and problems

Operations Engineering and Management: Concepts, Analytics and Principles for Improvement
Operations Engineering and Management: Concepts, Analytics and Principles for Improvement

Author: Seyed Iravani

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2020-10-16

Total Pages: 862

ISBN-13: 126046184X

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Discover how to apply engineering thinking and data analytics to business operations This comprehensive textbook shows readers how to develop their engineering thinking and analytics to support making strategic and tactical decisions in managing and control of operations systems and supply chains. The book is created in a modular fashion so that sections and chapters can stand alone and be used within operations courses across the spectrum. Operations Engineering and Management: Concepts, Analytics and Principles for Improvement is based on the author’s successful classes in both business and engineering. The book presents concepts and principles of operations management, with a strong emphasis on analytics and a sharp focus on improving operations. You will explore both the engineering approach to operations (e.g., analytics and engineering thinking) and the classic management approach. • Focuses on teaching and developing strong problem-solving analytics skills • Each section is designed to stand alone and can be used in a wide variety of courses • Written by an operations management and engineering expert

Process Control Engineering
Process Control Engineering

Author: A.Ramachandro. Rao

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-01-27

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1351421379

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Process Control Engineering is a textbook for chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering students, providing the theoretic fundamentals of control systems, and highlighting modern control theory and practical aspects of industrial processes. The introductory nature of the text should appeal to undergraduate students, while later chapters on linear systems, optimal control, adaptive control and intelligent control are directed toward advanced students and practising engineers. The textbook has been extensively tested in both undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Alberta.

Process Control
Process Control

Author: Steve S. Niu

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 3030970671

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Process Control details the core knowledge and practical skills that a successful process control practitioner needs. It explains the essential technologies that are in use in current industrial practice or which may be wanting for the future. The book focuses on practical considerations, not only on those that make a control solution work, but also on those that prevent it from failing, especially for complex control loops and plant-wide control solutions. After discussing the indispensable role of control in modern process industries, the authors concentrate on the skills required for process analysis, control design, and troubleshooting. One of the first books to provide a systematic approach and structured methodology for process analysis and control design, Process Control illustrates that methodology with many practical examples that cover process control, equipment control, and control calculations derived from real projects and applications. The book uses 229 drawings and 83 tables to make the concepts it presents more intuitive and its methodology easy to follow. Process Control will help the practising control engineer to benefit from a wealth of practical experience and good ideas on how to make control work in the real world and students training to take up roles in process control are shown the applied relevance of control theory in the efficient functioning of industrial plant and the considerations needed to make it work. Advances in Industrial Control reports and encourages the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.

Plantwide Process Control
Plantwide Process Control

Author: William L. Luyben

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13:

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With four realistic case studies ... Tennessee-Eastman, isomerization, vinyl acetate, and HDA processes (the first time a workable control structure for HDA has ever been published) ... Plantwide Process Control gives chemical engineers, and students, the tools they need to design effective control schemes.