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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Processing time variability"”.
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Analytic Evaluation of the Expectation and Variance of Different Performance Measures of a Schedule under Processing Time Variability
… replete with instances of uncertainties in job processing times, machine statuses (up or down), demand fluctuations, due dates of jobs and job priorities. These uncertainties stem from the inability to gather accurate information about the various parameters (e.g., processing times, product …
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Simulation study of a kanban-controlled production system
Just-In-Time (JIT) has become one of the most popular production control philosophies in the last three decades. JIT did not find acceptance in the American companies until after the oil crisis. To be more flexible and to adapt quickly to changes in the market, many American companies took to the …
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Branch-and-Price Method for Stochastic Generalized Assignment Problem, Hospital Staff Scheduling Problem and Stochastic Short-Term Personnel Planning Problem
… that we address is the SGAP for which the processing time of a job on a machine is assumed to be stochastic. Even though the generalized assignment problem (GAP) has been solved using the BNP method, yet no study has been reported in the literature on the use of the BNP method for the …