Flexibility and rigidity in customization and build-to-order production
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The characteristics of activity structures where customized offerings are created with near mass production efficiency are analyzed by outlining modularity and build-to-order production as key features of customizing. The analysis illustrates that a supplier must combine the potential for flexibility offered by the principle of build-to-order production with elements of the rigidity associated with mass production systems in order to customize at reasonable cost.
Publication Name: Industrial Marketing Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0019-8501
Year: 2005
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Complexity of flow shop scheduling problems with transportation constraints
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A study of the effect of transportation problems on the manufacturing and distribution systems scheduling is presented. The study relates to flexible manufacturing systems wherein the semi-finished jobs are transported from one processing facility to another by transporters like robots, conveyors and automated guided vehicles.
Publication Name: European Journal of Operational Research
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0377-2217
Year: 2005
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Evaluation of entropy-based dispatching in flexible manufacturing systems
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A method of parts dispatching based on entropy, a principle of thermodynamics in flexible manufacturing process, is evaluated.
Publication Name: European Journal of Operational Research
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0377-2217
Year: 2007
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