Coordination of Vertically Integrated, Multi-Plant Companies: VPW

生产和运输控制策略， 将调查垂直整合公司的工厂， 强调具有复杂因素（如设置）的设置 （机器转换），工厂之间的运输延迟， 不确定的产量和不确定的生产交货期。 主 电子工业就是一个很好的例子。 目标是 制定改进协调的办法， 制造响应时间，同时保持运输和 生产成本低。 将开发分析模型来研究 复杂因素的组合，以了解它们之间的相互作用， 然后制定控制策略， 鉴于这些因素。 项目成果将用于 适当调整现有的生产计划模型， #21453;，以考虑这些因素。 本项目涉及生产控制方法， 垂直整合的公司，是非常相关的 半导体和电子行业，并具有适用性， 更广泛的问题。 该项目进一步推动了VPW计划 目标，为妇女提供机会， 通过研究从事科学或工程职业， 鼓励其他妇女在这些领域从事职业， 调查人员作为东道国榜样的能见度提高 校园。 在这个项目中，拟议的活动， 有助于第二个目标包括：教学两讲 课程（一个本科生和一个研究生），项目咨询 对于理学硕士学生，至少有一位嘉宾 研讨会、非正式指导、咨询和角色示范 （主办部门没有全职女教员）。

Production and transportation control strategies for multiple plants in a vertically integrated company will be investigated, emphasizing settings with complicating factors such as setups (machine changeovers), transportation delays between plants, uncertain yields, and uncertain production lead times. The primary motivating example is the electronic industry. The goal is to develop approaches to improve coordination so as to reduce the manufacturing response time while keeping transportation and production costs low. Analytical models will be developed to study groups of complicating factors, to understand their interactions, and then to develop control strategies that encourage coordination in view of these factors. Project results will be used to appropriately adapt an existing production planning model at the host department, to account for these factors. This project addresses production control methodology for vertically integrated companies, is extremely relevant to the semiconductor and electronics industries, and has applicability to a much broader range of problems. The project furthers VPW program objectives to provide opportunities for women to advance their careers in science or engineering through research, and to encourage other women to pursue careers in these areas through the investigators' enhanced visibility as role models on the host campuses. In this project, the proposed activities which contribute to the second objective include: teaching two lecture courses (one undergraduate and one graduate), advising on projects for Master of Science students, presenting at least one guest seminar, and informal mentoring and counseling and role modeling (there are no full-time female faculty in the host department).