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Chapter and Conference Paper
Meeting Due Dates by Reserving Partial Capacity in MTO Firms
In many make-to-order production systems customers ask due date confirmed and met. Unexpected urgent orders from valuable customers usually require short lead times, which may cause existing orders in the prod...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Product Mix Decisions in the Process Industry
A resin manufacturer in Korea operates a large plant for synthetic resin products. The production process consists of two stages where a line in the first stage is a bottleneck of the whole process. Some low-p...
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Chapter
Strategic Inventory Positioning for MTO Manufacturing Using ASR Lead Time
In most Make-To-Order manufacturing, work-in-process (WIP) inventory is usually piled up at almost every station in the factory in order to quickly meet the urgent request from the immediate downstream station...