Planning is a vital decision making activity that influences the future of an organization by determining what tasks are to be performed, who required resources are and in what sequence. Organizations often follow a rigorous ...

The accuracy of demand forecasting for companies in the food industry is highly important, especially for those that deal with products that require refrigeration or that have short shelf-life, given the fact that the ...

This is the second paper of three which concerns improving Passenger Departure Flow. The main aim of this paper is provide a summary of the research results, which includes both the reporting of empirical data collected ...

The special environment of any airport, especially a major international hub made process improvement and analysis difficult. This is due to the variability induced by several factors and which could potentially change, ...

Flexible flow lines use flexible entities to generate multiple product variants using the same serial routing. Evaluative analytical models for the throughput rate of asynchronous serial flow lines were mainly developed ...

Lean is an established process improvement philosophy to achieve the operational excellence and the benefits can be more than just improving the process. This is evident as the benefits of Lean are truly exploited in ...