HOP: a software tool for production scheduling at Bridgestone/Firestone Off-The-Road

Article Abstract:

Bridgestone/Firestone Off-The-Road's Heater Optimization Program (HOP) proved to be effective in addressing the company's problem related to curing operation scheduling. The software tool specifically was able to generate a viable assignment of tires to molds and molds to heaters to attain an optimal total priority. Application of HOP resulted to generation of about 7% more tires per shift compared to the usual manual way of creating schedules.

Software Publishers, Applications Software Pkgs (Micro), Tires and inner tubes, Tires, Tire Manufacturing (except Retreading), Production management, Software, Scheduling (Management), Applications software, Tire industry, Bridgestone/Firestone Off-The-Road

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MABS: spreadsheet-based decision support for precision marketing

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Features of "Mobile Advertising Broadcast Scheduler" (MABS) are presented. MABS is a Microsoft Excel-based decision support system which is used for precision marketing via Short Message Service text messaging.

Product information, Advertising, Marketing industry, Decision support systems, Spreadsheets, Spreadsheet software, SMS (Short messaging service), Decision support software, Spreadsheet add-on, Mobile Advertising Broadcast Scheduler (Decision support software)

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Meta-heuristics for dynamic lot sizing: A review and comparison of solution approaches

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The application of heuristic programming techniques to simulate the economic lot sizing of cutting planes, based on the Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition theory and the Lagrange relaxation theory, is described.

Netherlands, Management dynamics, Methods, Management, Economics, Company business management, Economic lot size, Heuristic programming, Economic theory

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