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Operations Research Models and Techniques

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Computer-Aided Production Management

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Abstract

The development of production management had its beginning in the years of the industrial revolution [1]. The first significant application of operations research was the use of the simplex method of linear programming to war operation problems [2]. Since then there have been a number of operations research models which have found their use in production management. These models can be broadly classified into:

  1. 1.

    deterministic models

  2. 2.

    probabilistic models.

Wing S. Chow received a B.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, a B.Sc. degree in Statistics and an M.Sc. degree in Operations Research from the University of Manitoba. He is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Manitoba. His interests are in group technology and scheduling flexible manufacturing systems.

Sunderesh Heragu is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He received M.B.A. from University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1985 and B. Engg in Mechanical Engineering from University of Mysore, India in 1982. His interests are in the design and layout planning of flexible manufacturing systems.

Dr. Andrew Kusiak is an Associate Professor of industrial engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He received a B.Sc. degree in Precision Engineering, an M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Warsaw Technical University, and a Ph.D. degree in Operations Research from the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1978. His main interests are in applications of operations research and artificial intelligence techniques in design and operation of manufacturing and storage systems. Dr. Kusiak is a member of IFIP WG 5.7.

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  1. Production Engineering Laboratory, NTH-SINTEF, Richard Birkelandsv. 2b, N-7034, Trondheim-NTH, Norway

    Asbjørn Rolstadås

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Chow, W.S., Heragu, S., Kusiak, A. (1988). Operations Research Models and Techniques. In: Rolstadås, A. (eds) Computer-Aided Production Management. IFIP State-of-the-Art Reports. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73318-5_9

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