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A Simple, Practical Prioritization Scheme For A Job Shop Processing Multiple Job Types, Shuping Zhang
A Simple, Practical Prioritization Scheme For A Job Shop Processing Multiple Job Types, Shuping Zhang
Doctoral Dissertations
The maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) process is used to recondition equipment in the railroad, off-shore drilling, aircraft, and shipping industries. In the typical MRO process, the equipment is disassembled into component parts and these parts are routed to back-shops for repair. Repaired parts are returned for reassembling the equipment. Scheduling the back-shop for smooth flow often requires prioritizing the repair of component parts from different original assemblies at different machines. To enable such prioritization, we model the back-shop as a multi-class queueing network with a ConWIP execution system and introduce a new priority scheme to maximize the system performance. …
Real-Time Order Tracking For Supply Systems With Multiple Transportation Stages, Nana Bryan
Real-Time Order Tracking For Supply Systems With Multiple Transportation Stages, Nana Bryan
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation studies a supply system consisting of a retailer, a manufacturer, and multiple transportation stages. The manufacturer fulfills the demand from the retailer for a single product. The replenishment process is not instantaneous. Orders may take more than one time period to be shipped from the manufacturer’s location, and shipped orders pass through multiple transportation stages until they reach the retailer. Each stage may represent a physical location or a step in the delivery process. Shipments are not allowed to cross over in time. The movement of each shipment depends on the congestion and movements of shipments ahead of …