Petroleum industry production systems are highly automatized. In this industry, all functions (e.g., planning, scheduling and maintenance) are automated and in order to remain comp...
Supply Chain Management (SCM) plans and controls the production over a group of autonomous enterprises. Process-oriented design is used to eliminate inefficiencies of the chain on...
Effective operational control of a manufacturing system that has routing flexibility is dependent upon being able to make informed real-time decisions in the event of a system dis...
Catherine M. Harmonosky, Robert H. Farr, Ming-Chua...
Discrete-event simulation is widely used to analyse and improve the performance of manufacturing systems. The related optimization problem often includes integer design variables ...
S. J. Abspoel, L. F. P. Etman, J. Vervoort, J. E. ...
Selecting an optimum maintenance policy independent of other parameters of the production system does not always yield the overall optimum operating conditions. For instance, high...