Strategic and operational issues in production economics : proceedings of the seventh International Working Seminar on Production Economics, Igls, Austria, February 17-21, 1992

Part 1 Production planning and control: production control in engineer-to-order firms, J.W.M. Bertrand and D.R. Muntslag the influence of central government's policy on production and the inventory in a spatial oligopoly, M. Bogataj and L. Bogataj capacity smoothing and sequencing for mixed-model lines, M. Decker. Part 2 Theoretical approaches: capacitated lot-sizing with minimum batch sizes and setup times, E.J. Anderson and B.S. Cheah initial order quantities in a multistage production system with backlogging, R.W. Grubbstrom and H. Ding measuring and improving planning stability of reorder-point lot-sizing policies, T. Jensen. Part 3 Strategic planning for production systems: industrial conversion to natural gas - an efficient and risk neutral strategy?, B. Andersson and T. Lindblom the challenges of capacity planning, N.A. Bakke and R. Hellberg engineering design and product development and its relationship to manufacturing - a programme of case study research in British companies, P.M. Braiden et al. Part 4 Production information systems: progress on developing a framework for computer aided production management, M.C. Bonney and M.A. Head architectural framework for the design of a simulation environment for decentralized production management, Kruse et al decentralized production planning and design of a production management system based on an object-oriented architecture, M. Rohloff. Part 5 Quality planning and control: quality of services "applicable to production?", C.P.M. Govers. Part 6 Production pricing and costing: analysis of the conversion from a job shop system to a cellular manufacturing system, M.B. Durmusoglu. Part 7 DSS and expert systems in production: using a knowledge-based decision support system development environment to implement a scheduling system for a workshop, M. Klein et al an expert system for a local planning environment, G.J. Meester. Part 8 Investment and financial planning: the appraisal of industrial investments - a new method and a case study, P. Gallo and L. Peccati post-implementation reviews of investment - evidence from a two-stage study, E.J. Morgan and Y.L. Tang. Part 9 Inventory control: an integrated approach to the layout of flexible transfer lines (FTLs) - buffer stocks allocation, L. Abdel-Malek and C. Tang determining the number of spares in an inventory/repair system which supports equipment with scheduled usage, M.S. Bridgman and C.A. Mount-Campbell the economic lot size and relevant costs, M. Corbey and R. Jansen. Part 10 Transportation and logistics: freight rates for small shipments, F.J. Arcelus and J.E. Rowcroft scheduling of packaging lines in the process industry - an empirical investigation, P. van Dam et al a practical solution to a newspaper distribution problem, R.J. Mantel and M. Fontein.