Milk Run Design: Definitions, Concepts and Solution Approaches

Milk Run Design: Definitions, Concepts and Solution Approaches

Author: Meyer, Anne

Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing

Published: 2017-05-10

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 3731505665

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Efficient inbound networks in the European automotive industry rely on a set of different transport concepts including milk runs - understood as regularly scheduled pickup tours. The complexity of designing such a mixed network makes decision support necessary: In this book we provide definitions, mathematical models and a solution method for the Milk Run Design problem and introduce indicators assessing the performance of established milk runs in relation to alternative transport concepts.


Advances in Production Management Systems

Advances in Production Management Systems

Author: Jan Olhager

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-09-05

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0387741569

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This book brings together some of the latest thinking by leading experts from around the world on integrating systems and strategies in production management and related issues that are relevant for making production into a competitive resource for the firm. This book is composed of five parts, each focused on a specific theme: Linking systems and strategies; Strategic operations management; IS/IT applications in the value chain; Modelling and simulation; Improving operations.


Lean Logistics

Lean Logistics

Author: Michel Baudin

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2005-02-11

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781563272967

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Are your warehouses full while production is stopped by shortages? Do your customers complain that your lead times are too long and deliveries too late? Lean Logistics: The Nuts and Bolts of Delivering Materials and Goods by Michel Baudin helps you determine whether you have the right supply to meet your customers’ demands, as well as the ability to organize and deliver that supply. In this cutting edge work, Baudin addresses the physical infrastructure of lean logistics and the flow of information that composes its nervous system. He demonstrates the methods that will allow you to avoid shortages while maintaining low inventories, while showing you how to take advantage of the increased capacity and flexibility generated through lean manufacturing. This book picks up where the Baudin’s previous book, Lean Assembly, left off.


Europe by Milk Run

Europe by Milk Run

Author: Rory Moulton

Publisher: Dispatches from Europe

Published: 2022-03-07

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781954778085

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With ample humor and humility, Europe by Milk Run uncovers Europe's greatest treasures. When an acquaintance of author Rory Moulton declares that traveling Europe "isn't real travel," Rory sets out to prove him wrong. In this hilarious and gripping solo travel memoir, the author rides slow trains, explores off-beat neighborhoods and attractions, eats at restaurants so lost in time he's amazed they know when to open and befriends unforgettable characters, some of whom actually like him. Rory embarks with little more than a backpack, Eurail Pass and a vague notion of which direction he should be traveling. Along the way, he: repels a cat invasion in Amsterdam, loses all his money and documents, witnesses a magical sunset in a ruined church, meets WWII-doubting Kiwis, investigates a haunted Spanish prison, explores Europe's most beautiful, albeit abandoned, train station and much more... Europe by Milk Run shows that traveling Europe at ground level reveals the Continent's greatest treasures.


FlexSim in Academe: Teaching and Research

FlexSim in Academe: Teaching and Research

Author: Pawel Pawlewski

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-01-29

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 3030045196

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This book describes a variety of teaching and academic research applications that effectively utilize FlexSim to: (1) provide guidelines, methods and tools for simulation modeling and analysis in a variety of educational settings and (2) address a variety of important design and operational issues in industry. Simulation is increasingly proving to be an important tool for supporting decision-making and problem-solving processes in many disparate domains, including the design, management and improvement of a wide range of operations systems in manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, etc. Achieving resource efficiency and minimizing negative externalities from operations represent two of today’s greatest challenges; modern simulation methods can help to overcome them. FlexSim is a prominent software package for developing discrete-event, agent-based, continuous, and hybrid simulations.


14th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications (SOCO 2019)

14th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications (SOCO 2019)

Author: Francisco Martínez Álvarez

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-04-30

Total Pages: 617

ISBN-13: 3030200558

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This book includes 57 papers presented at the SOCO 2019 conference held in the historic city of Seville (Spain), in May 2019. Soft computing represents a set of computational techniques in machine learning, computer science and various engineering disciplines, which investigate, simulate, and analyze very complex issues and phenomena. The selection of papers was extremely rigorous in order to maintain the high quality of the conference, which featured a number of special sessions, including sessions on: Soft Computing Methods in Manufacturing and Management Systems; Soft Computing Applications in the Field of Industrial and Environmental Enterprises; Optimization, Modeling and Control by Soft Computing Techniques; and Soft Computing in Aerospace, Mechanical and Civil Engineering: New methods and Industrial Applications.


Industrial Engineering in the Big Data Era

Industrial Engineering in the Big Data Era

Author: Fethi Calisir

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-01-23

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 3030033171

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This book gathers extended versions of the best papers presented at the Global Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Its Application Areas (GJCIE), held in Nevsehir, Turkey, on June 21-22, 2018. They reports on industrial engineering methods and applications, with a special focus on the advantages and challenges posed by Big data in this field. The book covers a wide range of topics, including decision making, optimization, supply chain management and quality control.


Advances in Manufacturing II

Advances in Manufacturing II

Author: Adam Hamrol

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-04-27

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 3030187896

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This book covers a variety of topics in manufacturing, with a special emphasis on product design, production planning, and implementation of both resources and production processes. The content is based on papers presented at the 6th International Scientific Technical Conference MANUFACTURING 2019, held in Poznan, Poland on May 19-22, 2019. The main focus is on showing best practices to use tools currently available in the enterprises to effectively improving industrial processes. Knowledge and production flow management, decision-making systems, production leveling, enterprise efficiency, as well as maintenance, modeling and simulation of production processes are just some of the topics discussed in this book, which offers a timely and practice-oriented reference guide for applied researchers, product engineers and product managers.


Recent Advances in Manufacturing, Automation, Design and Energy Technologies

Recent Advances in Manufacturing, Automation, Design and Energy Technologies

Author: Sendhil Kumar Natarajan

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-10-11

Total Pages: 956

ISBN-13: 9811642222

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This book comprises the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Future Technologies in Manufacturing, Automation, Design and Energy 2020. The contents of this volume focus on recent technological advances in the field of manufacturing, automation, design and energy. Some of the topics covered include additive manufacturing, renewable energy resources, design automation, process automation and monitoring, etc. This volume will prove a valuable resource for those in academia and industry.