6 articles in this issue
Dongmin Shin,Jeongyeon Kim,Geunho Cho,Sun Hur
Determining an optimal batch sizes in a production system that produces defective items has been the primary focus of manufacturing sector. Depending on the proportion of defectives, the amount of optimal batch size also varies depending on several cost f... see more
Taha Hossein Hejazi,Mirmehdi Seyyed-Esfahani,Jiju Antony
In multi-stage manufacturing/service systems, quality of final products depends on several decision variables and design factors from several stages of operations as well as environmental and operational nuisance factors. Typically, the effects of factors... see more
Minchul Shin,Jeonghoon Mo,Kyungsik Lee,Cheol Lee
We consider the uncertainty issue when multiple participants have dierent opinions on the importance of criteria in the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). As the ranking can be reversed, robustness of ranking in the AHP is an important issue. In this work,... see more
Cheng Kang Chen,M. Akmalul 'Ulya
Recently, owing to growing environmental concerns, the activities of collecting used products for remanufacturing or recycling has attracted a great deal of attention from academic and industrial communities. In this paper, we extend the classical continu... see more
Muhammad Shafiq,Huynh Trung Luong
In his paper, joint replenishment and joint delivery coordination mechanism is developed using integers multiple technique to coordinate replenishments and deliveries of multiple items in a supply chain comprising multiple firms at each level. The propose... see more
Omer Faruk YILMAZ,Basar Oztaysi,Mehmet Bulent DURMUSOGLU,Sultan Ceren ONER
Using right material handling equipment (MHE) is substantial in terms of manufacturing costs even if related manufacturing environment is lean. In this paper, right materials handling equipment selection problem is investigated at the line feeding systems... see more