The book is devoted to the problem of manufacturing scheduling, which is the efficient allocation of jobs (orders) over machines (resources) in a manufacturing facility. It offers a comprehensive and integrated perspective on the different aspects required to design and implement systems to efficiently and effectively support manufacturing scheduling decisions. Obtaining economic and reliable schedules constitutes the core of excellence in customer service and efficiency in manufacturing operations. Therefore, scheduling forms an area of vital importance for competition in manufacturing companies. However, only a fraction of scheduling research has been translated into practice, due to several reasons. First, the inherent complexity of scheduling has led to an excessively fragmented field in which different sub problems and issues are treated in an independent manner as goals themselves, therefore lacking a unifying view of the scheduling problem. Furthermore, mathematical brilliance and elegance has sometimes taken preference over practical, general purpose, hands-on approaches when dealing with these problems. Moreover, the paucity of research on implementation issues in scheduling has restricted translation of valuable research insights into industry. "Manufacturing Scheduling Systems: An Integrated View on Models, Methods and Tools" presents the different elements constituting a scheduling system, along with an analysis the manufacturing context in which the scheduling system is to be developed. Examples and case studies from real implementations of scheduling systems are presented in order to drive the presentation of the theoretical insights. The book is intended for an ample readership including industrial engineering/operations post-graduate students and researchers, business managers, and readers seeking an introduction to the field.

The book is devoted to the problem of manufacturing scheduling, which is the efficient allocation of jobs (orders) over machines (resources) in a manufacturing facility. It offers a comprehensive and integrated perspective on the different aspects required to design and implement systems to efficiently and effectively support manufacturing scheduling decisions. Obtaining economic and reliable schedules constitutes the core of excellence in customer service and efficiency in manufacturing operations. Therefore, scheduling forms an area of vital importance for competition in manufacturing companies. However, only a fraction of scheduling research has been translated into practice, due to several reasons. First, the inherent complexity of scheduling has led to an excessively fragmented field in which different sub problems and issues are treated in an independent manner as goals themselves, therefore lacking a unifying view of the scheduling problem. Furthermore, mathematical brilliance and elegance has sometimes taken preference over practical, general purpose, hands-on approaches when dealing with these problems. Moreover, the paucity of research on implementation issues in scheduling has restricted translation of valuable research insights into industry. "Manufacturing Scheduling Systems: An Integrated View on Models, Methods and Tools" presents the different elements constituting a scheduling system, along with an analysis the manufacturing context in which the scheduling system is to be developed. Examples and case studies from real implementations of scheduling systems are presented in order to drive the presentation of the theoretical insights. The book is intended for an ample readership including industrial engineering/operations post-graduate students and researchers, business managers, and readers seeking an introduction to the field.

This proceedings volume contains a selection of 97 papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2001), the Annual Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR). The contributions cover the broad interdisciplinary spectrum of Operations Research and present recent advances in theory, development of methods, and applications in practice. Subjects covered are Transport and Traffic, Energy and Environment, Quantitative Methods in Marketing, Production and Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Finance and Banking and Insurance, Scheduling and Project Planning, Operations Research in the Health Service, Continuous Optimization, Discrete and Combinatorial Optimization, Stochastic Optimization and Simulation, Econometrics and Statistics and Mathematical Economics, Decision Theory, Artificial Intelligence and Fuzzy Logic, Information and Decision Support Systems and Operations Research in the Internet, Didactics of OR and Public Understanding.

David Betge analysiert die Struktur modular aufgebauter APS-Systeme, bildet ausgewahlte Module durch quantitative Entscheidungsmodelle ab und entwickelt einen Koordinationsansatz zur Abstimmung der Teilplanungen. Mit Hilfe seines Iterationsverfahrens konnen bereits nach wenigen Koordinationsschritten ablaufplanerisch zulassige Produktionsplane bestimmt werden."

Namhafte Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis beleuchten das Phanomen Unternehmen aus dem Blickwinkel der Systemtheorie und zeigen die Steuerungsfacetten komplexer Unternehmensstrukturen und Ablaufe auf."

Aggregation von Information in Verbindung mit einem mehrstufigen Vorgehen ist ein Instrument, um komplexe Planungsprobleme anzugehen. Das Buch untersucht, wie die Probleme aus dem Informationsverlust, der durch die Aggregation verursacht wird, im Rahmen eines iterativen Planungskonzeptes gesteuert werden koennen. Dazu werden lineare Programmierungsmodelle untersucht und eine UEbertragung auf Aggregationsprobleme in mehrstufigen Produktionsplanungsproblemen, speziell der hierarchischen Produktionsplanung, vorgenommen.

Das vorliegende Buch liefert eine Einfuhrung in das Gebiet des Operations Research und ist primar fur Studenten nicht-mathematischer Fachrichtungen, insbesondere fur Wirtschaftswissenschaftler gedacht. Es werden jedoch auch Mathematiker angesprochen, die sich einen einfuhrenden methodischen Uberblick uber das Gesamtgebiet verschaffen wollen. Dem Praktiker werden die Ausfuhrungen helfen, Moglichkeiten und Grenzen des praktischen Einsatzes von OR-Verfahren zu beurteilen. Durch die anschauliche, leicht verstandliche und durch viele Grafiken unterstutzte Darstellung soll der mathematisch weniger geubte Leser angesprochen werden. Dabei wird nicht nur die Lineare Optimierung (einschliesslich der Sensitivitatsanalyse und der Ganzzahligen Optimierung) behandelt. Es wird ebenfalls eine Einfuhrung in die Nichtlineare Optimierung und in die Dynamische Optimierung gegeben. Die dargestellten Verfahren werden ausfuhrlich in jedem Schritt erlautert. "