Rapid Modelling for Increasing Competitiveness - Tools and Mindset (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)

A Perspective on Two Decades of Rapid Modeling It is an honor for me to be asked to write a foreword to the Proceedings of the 1st Rapid Modeling Conference. In 1987, when I coined the term "Rapid Modeling" to denote queuing modeling of manufacturing systems, I never imagined that two decades later there would be an international conference devoted to this topic I am delighted to see that there will be around 40 presentations at the conference by leading researchers from aroundthe world, and about half of these presentationsare represented by written papers published in this book. I congratulate the conference organizers and program committee on the success of their efforts to hold the ?rst ever conference on Rapid Modeling. Attendees at this conferencemight?nd it interesting to learn about the history of the term Rapid Modeling in the context it is used here. During the fall of 1986 I was invited to a meeting at the Headquarters of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) in Dearborn, Michigan. By that time I had successfully demonstrated s- eral industry applications of queuing network models at leading manufacturers in the USA. Although in principle the use of queuing networks to model manufact- ing systems was well known in the OR/MS community and many papers had been published, the actual use of suchmodelsby manufacturingprofessionalswas almost nonexistent.

General

Imprint:	Springer London
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	2009
Editors:	Gerald Reiner
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	310
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009
ISBN-13:	978-1-84996-851-5
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Engineering: general Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Computer modelling & simulation Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Operational research Promotions
LSN:	1-84996-851-9
Barcode:	9781849968515

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