Engineering Costs and Production Economics

1980 - 1991

Continuation of Engineering and Process Economics. Continued by International Journal of Production Economics.

Current editor(s): R. W. Grubbström

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Volume 16, issue 4, 1989

Cost and price indices pp. 233-244

Norman Boyd

Multiple product inventory policies with unit load and storage space considerations pp. 245-256

Susan Schall and Jeya Chandra

Optimal and heuristic solutions for a simple common component inventory problem pp. 257-267

Henrik Jonsson and Edward A. Silver

The design of a continuous sampling plan under the conditioned inspection capacity pp. 269-279

Reay-Chen Wang and Sheng-Lin Chang

On the present-worth moments of serially correlated cash flows pp. 281-289

L. C. Leung, Y. V. Hui and G. A. Fleischer

The application of ultrasonic ranging and group technology concepts to robot material handling tasks pp. 291-302

Albert J. Wavering and Shiv G. Kapoor

Incorporating the effects of setups in lotsizing procedures pp. 303-313

Amitabh S. Raturi

Volume 16, issue 3, 1989

Models of manufacturing systems in different operational contexts pp. 161-169

D. J. Rhodes

From enterprise analysis to conceptual database design in production systems pp. 171-182

A. DiLeva, F. Vernadat and D. Bizier

On the determination of overplanning margins for components in a consumer electronics factory pp. 183-193

A. P. G. M. Kamp, G. L. Polderman, P. E. T. Striekwold and P. J. Weeda

The service parts control problem pp. 195-208

H. Yamashina

Joint ordering of two products with lost sales permitted pp. 209-212

Suresh Kumar Goyal

On the selection of industry location alternatives pp. 213-219

F. J. Arcelus

A computer-aided single machine batch scheduling system pp. 221-231

K. N. Peach and B. G. Dale

Volume 16, issue 2, 1989

Design of a production planning and control system for a toolroom: A case study pp. 81-90

R. P. Mohanty and S. Govindrajan

Feeding parts with random production speed to an assembly line pp. 91-96

Dmitri Golenko-Ginzburg, Zilla Sinuany-Stern and Lea Friedman

Estimating the number of control points for production systems with variable speeds pp. 97-102

Dmitri Golenko-Ginzburg

Estimating the effect of conversion to a group technology layout on the cost of material handling pp. 103-109

Avraham Shtub

Materials handling in the electronics industry: The same old problems pp. 111-116

David A. Lewis and Robin Lin

Scheduling for just-in-time manufacturing pp. 117-124

Pius J. Egbelu and Hsu Pin Wang

Depreciation and tax policies in certain East Asian countries pp. 125-135

Lawrence C. Leung and Gerald A. Fleischer

Determining safety stocks of large transfer lines for a preset efficiency pp. 137-150

G. J. Miltenburg and A. Z. Szendrovits

An optimal model and a heuristic technique for multi-stage lot-sizing problems: Algorithms and performance tests pp. 151-160

Huan-Neng Chiu and Tsong-Ming Lin

Volume 16, issue 1, 1989

The time-cost tradeoff in research and development: A review pp. 1-9

Samuel B. Graves

International manufacturing: An analysis on factory level on the centre-periphery relations pp. 11-33

A. D. M. van de Ven

The effect of discounting on inventory lot sizing models pp. 35-48

Chan S. Park and Young K. Son

The build-up of value in manufacturing and construction and in the economy pp. 49-68

H. J. Pick

Economic selection of a process level under acceptance sampling by variables pp. 69-78

Olle Carlsson

Volume 15, issue 1, 1989

Foreword pp. XI-XI

Attila Chikan

The impact of credit policy on macro inventory behavior in the Hungarian economy pp. 3-7

Istvan Abel and Istvan Szalkai

A microsimulated model of inventories in interfirm competition pp. 9-15

Barbara Bergmann

A theory of business expectation formulation pp. 17-25

Jack T. Brimer

A structural analysis of the inventory behavior of Hungarian industry pp. 27-34

Attila Chikan

Material stocks and flows in the national economy--Some relations and dependencies pp. 35-40

Pavel Dimitrov

Seasonal adjustment effect on inventory behavior pp. 41-46

Moheb A. Ghali

A note on the valuation and verification of inventories pp. 47-50

Syamal K. Ghosh

The economy of the circulation of funds and selected consequences for stockpiling management pp. 51-54

Klaus Gurmann and Karl Schreiber

The role of inventory and equipment investment in economic fluctuations pp. 55-60

Claude Hillinger

Inventory cycles in market and in planned economies pp. 61-66

Csilla Hunyadi

Inventory investment and business cycles in the United Kingdom pp. 67-74

F. Owen Irvine

The influence of material inventories on materials requirements in Polish engineering industry--Let's try business logistics pp. 75-79

Danuta Kisperska-Moron

Short-term inventory dynamics in the Finnish forest industry pp. 81-85

Kalevi Kylaheiko and Timo Pirttila

A model of inventory accounting method pp. 87-91

Chi-Wen Jevons Lee

The inventory cycle in the United States pp. 93-100

Michael Lovell

The nature and significance of the inventory and order-backlog appraisals in business-test surveys pp. 101-109

Marc Nerlove

The main tendencies of inventory movement in the USSR's national economy and measures undertaken to accelerate their turnover pp. 111-113

M. I. Rasulova

A test for inflation-induced redistributions pp. 115-120

Paul G. Reinhardt

Modelling macroeconomic disequilibrium and possibilities of optimal inventory reallocation pp. 121-125

Karla Trdlicova

Stock-holding of manufacturing industry within the United Kingdom pp. 127-132

C. D. J. Waters

On the discrete time-proportional demand inventory problem pp. 135-140

F. J. Arcelus

On the determinants of accounting inventory valuation methods: The Canadian experience pp. 141-146

F. J. Arcelus and B. A. Trenholm

Analysis of propagation of stochastic errors through an MRP system, and an industrial case study pp. 147-150

P. G. Awate

Inventories as work backlogs--Three case studies in diagnostic analyses using regressions, moving-averages and cum-sum charts pp. 151-156

P. G. Awate

A diagnostic study concerning large fluctuations in load plans and stocks at sales-production interface in a large switchgear company pp. 157-161

P. G. Awate

Some studies on integrated multistage production-inventory systems pp. 163-167

A. S. Babu and S. G. Deshmukh

Design of production control systems: Choice of system structure and systems implementation sequence pp. 169-173

M. C. Bonney and K. Popplewell

On reducing excessive stock in the order-level lot-size system for decaying inventories pp. 175-180

Upendra Dave

Decision support systems for management in central warehouses of building plants pp. 181-184

Dieter Ehrenberg

Integrating key suppliers--Essential part of a just-in-time-concept pp. 185-189

Robert Fieten

Implementing multiple criteria ABC analysis pp. 191-195

Benito E. Flores and D. Clay Whybark

A 24-point action plan to introduce supply as a general management function pp. 197-200

Louis Jacobs

A microcomputer inventory control package for controlling families of items pp. 201-209

G. J. Miltenburg and E. A. Silver

A possibility of spare parts planning improvement in the production enterprises pp. 211-214

Kristju Papazov and Atanas Tashev

Structuring the bills of material for a complex make-to-order product (A case study) pp. 215-222

P. S. Rusk and K. D. Barber

Materials management in large-scale construction projects: Some concerns and research issues pp. 223-229

Edward A. Silver

MRP and JIT: What is in it for Hungary? pp. 231-234

LaszloSz. Kis

Some aspects of the input/output methods for managing work-in-process inventories pp. 235-239

I. P. Tatsiopoulos

Implementation of computer-aided branch management systems pp. 241-244

Gustav Tomek

Information flows--The foundation of manufacturing and stock management pp. 245-260

Martin Walbank

Three major effects on the performance of lot-sizing techniques pp. 261-265

Cengiz Yilmaz and Warren J. Boe

Production planning and inventory management in a telecommunication industry pp. 267-276

W. H. M. Zijm and A. G. de Kok

A search model of optimal pricing and production pp. 279-284

Steve Alpern and Dennis Snower

A market based approach to incorporating risk in stochastic inventory models pp. 285-290

Mohsen Anvari

The sensitivity of optimal inventory policies to model assumptions and parameters pp. 291-298

F. J. Arcelus and G. Srinivasan

Approximate solutions to the disaggregation problem under uncertainty pp. 299-306

Aysen Ari

Initial order quantities pp. 307-310

Sven Axsater

The joint optimization of the input flow and the size of the storehouse pp. 311-315

Marija Bogataj and Ludvik Bogataj

Stochastic control in management of water supply systems pp. 317-321

Marija Bogataj and Ludvik Bogataj

Functional limit theorems for some inventory models pp. 323-328

E. V. Bulinskaya

The effect of stochastic supply times on optimal policies in inventory control pp. 329-333

Moshe F. Friedman

A rolling schedule method for stochastic demand inventory systems pp. 335-337

H. J. Girlich

Determining the optimum production-packaging policy for jointly replenished items pp. 339-341

S. K. Goyal

Exergetic and inventory-theoretic aspects of energy storage pp. 343-350

Robert W. Grubbstrom and Peter Hultman

Magnitude based service level constraints during a fiscal period: The exponential distribution pp. 351-360

Christoph Haehling von Lanzenauer

Spatila-box--Software system for replenishment quantities of many commodities under simultaneous restrictions on space and capital, and with quantity discount options pp. 361-366

Ole Hagen, Ole Magnus Strande and Julian Jacobsen

On forward algorithms for a generalized wheat trading model pp. 367-370

Richard F. Hartl

Some possibilities for applying Kotelnikov's theorem in stock control pp. 371-373

Anastas Kehayov

Optimal service levels in multi-item inventory systems pp. 375-379

Peter Kelle

A practical near-optimal order quantity method pp. 381-386

Victoria J. Mabin

Integrating marketing and production decisions pp. 387-390

R. McTavish and S. K. Goyal

An inventory model with product obsolescence with implications to the high technology industry pp. 391-395

Ehud Menipaz

Adaptive lot sizing (With case study) pp. 397-404

Peter O'Grady and Michael Byrne

A new adaptive algorithm for determination of stocks in spare parts inventory systems pp. 405-410

R. Petrovic, A. Senborn and M. Vujosevic

Horizons for a dynamic family of wheat trading problems pp. 411-415

Ryszarda Rempala

A high-low search model of inventories with time delay pp. 417-422

Diane J. Reyniers

Dialog program for the two-criterial dynamic lot size model pp. 423-426

Knut Richter

Policy decisions for order-level inventory system for deteriorating items with partially lost demand pp. 427-432

R. S. Sachan

Analysis of (S, s) inventory system with decaying items pp. 433-439

S. K. Srinivasan and N. Ravichandran

Optimal stock-out timing in a dynamic model with full backordering pp. 441-443

Thomson M. Whitin