International Collaboration: Capacity Anticipation and Modeling for Production Planning with Flexible Resources

这项拨款为国际研究合作提供资金，研究灵活资源制造系统中建模能力的方法。改进制造系统的能力建模将提高规划系统的能力，以最大限度地利用制造系统的能力，具有相当大的理论和实践意义。近年来，一种很有前途的方法是用非线性清除函数来表示在制品水平与吞吐量之间的非线性关系。本项目探索将清理功能概念扩展到制造灵活性领域。NCSU集团在生产计划和总产能的清理功能表示方面具有大量的实践和理论专门知识，而bo - azi<s:1>大学集团在具有高度制造灵活性的制造系统的建模、仿真和实时管理领域提供研究基础设施、工作人员和丰富经验。如果取得成功，拟议的研究项目将为一种新型的能力分配和规划模式开辟道路，同时也将启动国际意识和合作的发展，并启动两所机构之间的长期关系，从而在未来开展更广泛的教师和学生交流项目。

This grant provides funding for an international research collaboration on methods of modeling capacity in manufacturing systems with flexible resources. Improved modeling of the capacity of a manufacturing system will enhance the ability of planning systems to make the best use of the manufacturing system's capability and is of considerable theoretical and practical interest. A promising approach to this problem in recent years has been to represent the nonlinear relationship between the work-in-progress (WIP) levels and the throughput using nonlinear clearing functions. This project explores the extension of the clearing function concept into the domain of manufacturing flexibility. The NCSU group has substantial practical and theoretical expertise on production planning and clearing function representations of aggregate capacity and the Boðaziçi University group provides research infrastructure, work force and substantial experience in the field of modeling, simulation and real-time management of manufacturing systems with high degrees of manufacturing flexibility. If successful, the proposed research program will open the way to a novel class of capacity allocation and planning models, but also initiate the development of international awareness and collaboration and initiate a longer-term relationship between the two institutions leading to more extensive faculty and student exchange programs in the future.