Flexible Manufacturing Systems and Flexible Supply Chains - Modeling, Decision Making, and Optimization

Author: Huazhong Sheng
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: In the metrics used to measure the competitiveness of enterprises and supply chains, flexibility is as important as cost, quality, and delivery time. This competitiveness indicator not only involves technical issues in its implementation process but also relates to decision-making and coordination in enterprise and supply chain operations, thereby becoming an important component of enterprise and supply chain strategic management. Currently, the principles and methods of managing and decision-making for flexible manufacturing systems in manufacturing enterprises are showing a trend of expanding to other management fields beyond service enterprise management and operational management. This book introduces the relevant theories and methods of flexible manufacturing systems and flexible supply chain management from the perspectives of modeling methods for flexibility improvement, decision-making problems, and optimization, emphasizing the role of management and decision-making in enhancing flexibility, new ideas and methods related to flexibility, and attempts to bridge the gap between enterprise-level and supply chain-level flexibility improvement methods. The book systematically introduces various levels of flexibility and their related decision-making and optimization problems, while only briefly covering technical aspects such as the hardware structure and low-level control of flexible manufacturing systems. This book can serve as a graduate textbook for disciplines such as operations management, management engineering, and industrial engineering, and can also be referenced by practitioners and senior managers in enterprise and supply chain management.
In the metrics used to measure the competitiveness of enterprises and supply chains, flexibility is as important as cost, quality, and delivery time. This competitiveness indicator not only involves technical issues in its implementation process but also relates to decision-making and coordination in enterprise and supply chain operations, thereby becoming an important component of enterprise and supply chain strategic management. Currently, the principles and methods of managing and decision-making for flexible manufacturing systems in manufacturing enterprises are showing a trend of expanding to other management fields beyond service enterprise management and operational management. This book introduces the relevant theories and methods of flexible manufacturing systems and flexible supply chain management from the perspectives of modeling methods for flexibility improvement, decision-making problems, and optimization, emphasizing the role of management and decision-making in enhancing flexibility, new ideas and methods related to flexibility, and attempts to bridge the gap between enterprise-level and supply chain-level flexibility improvement methods. The book systematically introduces various levels of flexibility and their related decision-making and optimization problems, while only briefly covering technical aspects such as the hardware structure and low-level control of flexible manufacturing systems. This book can serve as a graduate textbook for disciplines such as operations management, management engineering, and industrial engineering, and can also be referenced by practitioners and senior managers in enterprise and supply chain management.