The aim of this book is to cover various aspects of the Production and Operations Analysis. Apart from the introduction to basic understanding of each topic, the book will also provide insights to various conventional techniques as well as, various other mathematical and nature-based techniques extracted from the existing literature. Concepts like smart factories, intelligent manufacturing, and various techniques of manufacturing will also be included. Various types of numerical examples will al...
Definitive Guide to Warehousing, The (Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals)
by Scott B Keller and Brian C Keller
This is the most authoritative and complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimising world-class supply chain warehousing processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it explains each warehousing option, basic warehousing storage and handling operations, strategic planning, and the effects of warehousing design and service decisions on total logistics costs and customer service. This reference introduces crucial concepts including produ...
Supply Chain Network Design (Paperback)
by Michael Watson, Sara Lewis, Peter Cacioppi, and Jay Jayaraman
The Disassembly Line: Balancing and Modeling
by Seamus M McGovern and Surendra M. Gupta
Price-Forecasting Models for Fossil Group, Inc. FOSL Stock (NASDAQ Composite Components, #1387)
by Ton Viet Ta
Responsible Manufacturing
Responsible Manufacturing has become an obligation to the environment and to society itself, enforced primarily by customer perspective and governmental regulations on environmental issues. This is mainly driven by the escalating deterioration of the environment, such as diminishing raw material resources, overflowing waste sites, and increasing levels of pollution. Responsible Manufacturing related issues have found a large following in industry and academia, which aim to find solutions to th...
A reference for those working at the interface of operations planning and optimization modeling, Operations Planning: Mixed Integer Optimization Models blends essential theory and powerful approaches to practical operations planning problems. It presents a set of classical optimization models with widespread application in operations planning. The
Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics (FT Press Analytics)
by Thomas W. Miller
To succeed with predictive analytics, you must understand it on three levels: Strategy and management Methods and models Technology and code This up-to-the-minute reference thoroughly covers all three categories. Now fully updated, this uniquely accessible book will help you use predictive analytics to solve real business problems and drive real competitive advantage. If you're new to the discipline, it will give you the strong foundation you need to get accurate, actionabl...
Reverse Supply Chains
Winner of IIE Book of the Month, December 2013The introduction of reverse supply chains has created many challenges in network design, transportation, selection of used products, selection and evaluation of suppliers, performance measurement, marketing-related issues, end-of-life (EOL) alternative selection, remanufacturing, disassembly, and product acquisition management, to name a few. Under the guidance of an expert editor and with contributions from pioneers in the field, Reverse Supply Chai...
The proposed book includes concepts, methodologies, and practices for achieving sustainability in business operations. The underlying concept is explained from two perspectives: organizational level and policy level. In the former, all principles, techniques, and decision-making issues relevant to sustainability at unit level, management of product recovery processes, and sustainability at integrated level are addressed. Content on policy level perspective includes policies, norms, guidelines an...
Decision Sciences
This handbook is an endeavour to cover many current, relevant, and essential topics related to decision sciences in a scientific manner. Using this handbook, graduate students, researchers, as well as practitioners from engineering, statistics, sociology, economics, etc. will find a new and refreshing paradigm shift as to how these topics can be put to use beneficially. Starting from the basics to advanced concepts, authors hope to make the readers well aware of the different theoretical and pra...
Big Data Analytics Using Multiple Criteria Decision-Making Models (Operations Research)
Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is a subfield of Operations Research, dealing with decision making problems. A decision-making problem is characterized by the need to choose one or a few among a number of alternatives. The field of MCDM assumes special importance in this era of Big Data and Business Analytics. In this volume, the focus will be on modelling-based tools for Business Analytics (BA), with exclusive focus on the sub-field of MCDM within the domain of operations research. The...
Delayed and Network Queues
by Aliakbar Montazer Haghighi and Dimitar P Mishev
Presents an introduction to differential equations, probability, and stochastic processes with real-world applications of queues with delay and delayed network queues Featuring recent advances in queueing theory and modeling, Delayed and Network Queues provides the most up-to-date theories in queueing model applications. Balancing both theoretical and practical applications of queueing theory, the book introduces queueing network models as tools to assist in the answering of questions on cost an...
Advanced Mathematical Modeling with Technology (Advances in Applied Mathematics)
by William P. Fox and Robert E. Burks
Mathematical modeling is both a skill and an art and must be practiced in order to maintain and enhance the ability to use those skills. Though the topics covered in this book are the typical topics of most mathematical modeling courses, this book is best used for individuals or groups who have already taken an introductory mathematical modeling course. Advanced Mathematical Modeling with Technology will be of interest to instructors and students offering courses focused on discrete modeling or...
Applied Simulation Modeling (with CD-ROM)
by Andrew Selia, Pandu Tadikamalla, and Vlatko Ceric
APPLIED SIMULATION MODELING provides the student with both a conceptual introduction to the concepts of simulation modeling and practical experience with real examples using popular commercial simulation packages ARENA and @Risk. The coverage includes Risk Simulation, Dynamic Systems, and Discrete Event Simulation models. Throughout the text, the authors show readers how they can use simulation in the context of decision making. Practical examples from Operations Management, Manufacturing, Healt...
Engineering Analytics
Engineering analytics is becoming a necessary skill for every engineer. Areas such as Operations Research, Simulation, and Machine Learning can be totally transformed through massive volumes of data. This book is intended to be an introduction to Engineering Analytics that can be used to improve performance tracking, customer segmentation for resource optimization, patterns and classification strategies, and logistics control towers. Basic methods in the areas of visual, descriptive, predictiv...
Automation systems, often referred to as SCADA systems, involve programming at several levels; these systems include computer type field controllers that monitor and control plant equipment such as conveyor systems, pumps, and user workstations that allow the user to monitor and control the equipment through color graphic displays. All of the components of these systems are integrated through a network, such as Ethernet for fast communications. This book provides a practical guide to developin...
Applied Nonlinear Optimization in Modeling Environments (Operations Research)
by Janos D. Pinter
In a unique treatment that reviews prominent modeling environments and solution approaches, numerical tests and real-world applications, this work presents a practically motivated discussion of nonlinear (global and convex) optimization. From this book, readers will gain a solid practical understanding of readily applicable methods and tools in an important and rapidly emerging field.
This text is the acknowledged leader in the Operations Research field. Known for its stimulating, challenging coverage, it is also famous for its clarity, comprehensiveness and abundance of real life examples and exercises. A software tutorial for the IBM/PC and the Macintosh has been added to the new edition and includes demonstration examples, routines for interactive execution of algorithms, and the routines for interactive post-optimality analysis. The new edition has incorporated such impor...
Operations Research - A Decision-making Tool for Engineers and Managers
by Ranganath
A comprehensive chemical engineering text on unit operations, covering fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mass transfer, and solids handling. It contains a balanced treatment of theory and engineering practice, with many practical illustrative examples included. The mass-transfer section contains chapters on adsorption and membrane operations.
Swarm Intelligence (Mathematical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Management Sciences)
by Abhishek Sharma, Abhinav Sharma, Jitendra Kumar Pandey, and Mangey Ram
Swarm intelligence is one of the fastest growing subfields of artificial intelligence and soft computing. This field includes multiple optimization algorithms to solve NP-hard problems for which conventional methods are not effective. It inspires researchers in engineering sciences to learn theories from nature and incorporate them. Swarm Intelligence: Foundation, Principles, and Engineering Applications provides a comprehensive review of new swarm intelligence techniques and offers practical i...
In companies that produce goods and services, productivity and efficiency improvements are a constant challenge. This book reviews the differences between productivity and efficiency. It proposes a new method and makes available a computational tool for implementation that contributes to facilitating the use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book presents a discussion about productivity and efficiency, illustrating the potentials of use and conceptual differences. It covers the concepts...