Modern Production Concepts

I: Production Planning and Control.- 1. Constitutive Aspects.- A Theoretical Basis for the Rational Formation of Production Planning and Control (PPC) Systems.- Comparison of Two Production Logistics Concepts.- Multi-Period Production Planning and Managerial Accounting.- Flexibility of Production Control Systems.- A Quantitative Measure for Flexibility.- Applications of Operations Research in Hierarchical Production Planning.- 2. Aspects and Elements of Production Planning and Control (PPC)-Systems.- Hierarchical Approach to Production Planning and Scheduling: The Case of a Mosaic Tile Plant.- Operational Control of Automated PCB Assembly lines.- A Framework for Developing Production Control Systems: A Case in Coffee Roasting/Distributing.- The Impact of Forecast Errors in Multistage Production Systems.- Integrated Manufacturing Planning.- Alternatives for MRP.- A Widely Acclaimed Method of Load-Oriented Job Release and its Conceptual Deficiencies.- 3. Just-in-Time (JIT).- JIT in a Low Volume, Hi-Tech Production Environment.- A Study of JIT Application under Stochastic Demand and Supply Arrival.- A Comprehensive Study of Quality Management Practices in JIT and Non-JIT Firms.- Trade-off between Production and Inventory Costs with Respect to a Given Demand Situation.- 4. Inventory Problems.- Combined Optimization of Safety Stocks and Processing Lead Times in Multi-Stage Production Systems.- On the Commonality Problem in Multi-Stage Inventory Control Systems.- Effect of the Standardization of the Hierarchy Parts Structure of a Product (SHPSP) on Production Ordering and Inventory Levels.- A Stochastic Model for In-Process Inventory.- An Inventory Model with Lateral Transshipments.- 5. Scheduling Problems.- A Flexible Decision Support Framework for Production Scheduling.- The Leitstand - A New Tool for Decentral Production Control.- Scheduling with Alternative Process Plans.- Scheduling and Resource Allocation Problems in Some Flow Type Manufacturing Processes.- Intelligent Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems.- Event Graphs for Modeling and Evaluating Modern Production Systems.- Scheduling a Work Conserving Queue with Deadlines: Minimizing the Cost of Getting the Work Done on Time.- Analytical and Simulation Techniques Used to Gain Insight into Multi Product Machine Shop Control.- II: Production as a Competitive Weapon.- 6. General Concepts.- World Class Manufacturing in the 1990s: Integrating JIT, TQC, FA, and TPM with Worker Participation.- Time-Based Competition: Speeding New Product Development.- Concurrent Life-Cycle Engineering for the Optimization of Products, Systems, and Structures.- 7. Designing New Production Systems.- Strategic Formation of Manufacturing Cells.- Scale, Scope or Division of Labour: Coping with Volume, Variety and Variability in Manufacturing.- Performance Evaluation of Flexible Manufacturing Systems with Starving.- Non Delay - Revisited.- A Heuristic Approach to FMS Process Planning.- A Review of Research on AGVS Vehicle Management.- Flexible Assembly and Shortest Queue Problems.- A Quantitative Model for the Analysis of Distribution Network Scenario's.- 8. Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM).- Systematic Development and Implementation of CIM Systems.- New Approaches to CIM Specification.- New Looks on CIMS Modelling.- Design of Interfactory Computer Network Interconnection.- List of Contributors.- List of Sponsors.