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

这笔赠款为一个具有灵活资源的制造系统能力建模方法的国际研究合作提供资金。改进的制造系统能力建模将提高计划系统充分利用制造系统能力的能力，具有重要的理论和实践意义。近年来，解决这一问题的一个有希望的方法是使用非线性清算函数来表示在制品(WIP)水平和吞吐量之间的非线性关系。该项目探索了将清算功能的概念扩展到制造柔性领域。NCSU小组在总产能的生产计划和清算功能表示方面拥有丰富的实践和理论专业知识，而BoçAziçi大学小组在制造系统的建模、模拟和实时管理领域提供研究基础设施、劳动力和丰富的经验，具有高度的制造灵活性。如果成功，拟议的研究计划将为一类新的能力分配和规划模式开辟道路，但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，从而在未来带来更广泛的教师和学生交流计划。

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.