International Journal of Production Economics

1991 - 2025

Continuation of Engineering Costs and Production Economics.

Current editor(s): Stefan Minner

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Volume 23, issue 1-3, 1991

Production economics: Issues and challenges for the 90's pp. 1-2

Robert W. Grubbstrom and Hans H. Hinterhuber

Evaluating flexibility of alternative FMS designs -- A comparative measure pp. 3-10

Layek Abdel-Malek and Carl Wolf

Identifying the firm's characteristics affecting the choice of inventory valuation methods pp. 11-16

F. J. Arcelus and B. A. Trenholm

Bicriteria scheduling problem involving total tardiness and total earliness penalties pp. 17-24

Meral Azizoglu, Suna Kondakci and Omer Kirca

Decision criteria in capital budgeting under uncertainties: implications for future research pp. 25-35

Chuvej Chansa-ngavej and Clark A. Mount-Campbell

Costs and benefits of investment in electronic design pp. 37-45

B. Chiplin, C. O'Brien and S. J. Smith

Measurable economic consequences of investments in flexible capacity pp. 47-57

Michael Corbey

Due-date setting and production control pp. 59-67

Nico P. Dellaert

A DSS for capacity planning of aircraft maintenance personnel pp. 69-78

Matthijs C. Dijkstra, Leo G. Kroon, Jo A. E. E. van Nunen and Marc Salomon

On the optimization of initial order quantities pp. 79-88

Huiping Ding and Robert W. Grubbstrom

A hierarchically structured decision-support-system for demand-oriented shift planning pp. 89-98

Fai[beta]t, J., Schneewei[beta], Ch. and F. Wolf

Some designing principles of production systems based on field research in Europe and Japan pp. 99-103

K. -D. Frohner

On optimal strategies in inventory systems with Wiener demand process pp. 105-110

Hans-Joachim Girlich and Volker Barche

Lot sizing and throughput times in a job shop pp. 111-116

Heinz Hafner

Generic bill-of-material: a new product model pp. 117-128

H. M. H. Hegge and J. C. Wortmann

Optimal prices of a job shop with a single work station: a discrete time model pp. 129-137

Soren Glud Johansen

Setting customer service levels: an overall cost-approach pp. 139-146

Paul A. Konijnendijk

The economic lot scheduling problem: theory and practice pp. 147-164

Miguel A. Narro Lopez and Brian G. Kingsman

The use of the PROMETHEE method in the location choice of a production system pp. 165-174

Ivan Pavic and Zoran Babic

Optimal order quantity and pricing decisions in single-period inventory systems pp. 175-185

L. Hakan Polatoglu

Complexity index as a base for decision making whether to introduce NC or conventional machines pp. 187-196

S. Ramani and R. Venkatraman

Strategic aspects of flexible production technologies: theory and evidence pp. 197-204

Lars-Hendrik Roller and Mihkel M. Tombak

CIM networking: promise and problems pp. 205-212

Charles A. Snyder

Iterative determination and matching of part groups and machine cells: optimization and successive approximations pp. 213-222

Larry E. Stanfel

Computational procedures for stochastic multi-echelon production systems pp. 223-237

G. J. van Houtum and W. H. M. Zijm

Controlling different flow rates in job-shop like production departments pp. 239-249

H. P. G. van Ooijen

Manufacturing practices: differences that matter pp. 251-259

Gyula Vastag and D. Clay Whybark

Multi-criteria models for capacity analysis and aggregate planning in manufacturing systems pp. 261-272

C. Vercellis

Volume 22, issue 3, 1991

Optimum number of kanbans between two adjacent workstations in a JIT system pp. 179-188

Hunglin Wang and Hsu-Pin (Ben) Wang

Applications of O.R. techniques in cost allocation of major operational materials in an alloy and special steel manufacturing unit pp. 189-193

B. Sasidhar and K. K. Achary

A multiple arc network model of production planning in a steel mill pp. 195-202

B. Sasidhar and K. K. Achary

Demand forecasting for a jewelry packaging company: pattern identification and assessment pp. 203-209

Shaw K. Chen and Maling Ebrahimpour

An optimal investment and inventory policy pp. 211-216

H. van de Water and T. van der Vaart

Minimizing the makespan of a group scheduling problem: a new heuristic pp. 217-230

Rasaratnam Logendran and Nudtapon Nudtasomboon

Smoothing supply chain dynamics pp. 231-248

J. Wikner, D. R. Towill and M. Naim

Expert systems and production/operations management pp. 249-257

T. C. E. Cheng and D. Bizruchak

Optimal constant due-date determination and sequencing of n jobs on a single machine pp. 259-261

T. C. E. Cheng

Volume 22, issue 2, 1991

Koopmans activity analysis as an optimal control problem pp. 95-103

Han Kang Hong

Single machine scheduling with controllable processing times: a parametric study pp. 105-110

In-Soo Lee

Economic evaluation of leadtime reduction pp. 111-120

Marc J. F. Wouters

A framework for quality system design in "one of a kind" manufacturing companies pp. 121-130

Torben Jul Jensen

A simulation model for warranty analysis pp. 131-140

Vickie Lee Hill, Charles W. Beall and Wallace R. Blischke

Bicriterion design of process control charts pp. 141-150

Gerald W. Evans and Gina R. Emberton

An analytic hierarchy approach to activity-based costing pp. 151-161

Fariborz Y. Partovi

Engineering foundations of production microeconomics -- Applications to examples concerning the chemical processing industries pp. 163-168

Joelle Gazerian, Jean-Baptiste Lesourd, Jean-Michel Ruiz and Albert Sanfeld

Optimizing the location of material transfer stations within layout analysis pp. 169-176

Diana Riopel and Andre Langevin

Volume 22, issue 1, 1991

Editorial pp. vii-viii

Robert W. Grubbstrom

Modelling of condition based maintenance at the coal face pp. 1-11

J. B. Chilcott and A. H. Christer

A review of multi-criterion approaches to FMS scheduling problems pp. 13-31

Yash P. Gupta, Gerald W. Evans and Mahesh C. Gupta

Statistical process control: An examination of some common queries pp. 33-41

B. G. Dale and P. Shaw

An interactive production planning and scheduling system for a flow-type manufacturing process pp. 43-51

Hitoshi Tsubone, Masao Anzai, Mitsumasa Sugawara and Haruki Matsuura

Coordinating new product development and delivery pp. 53-58

Prabuddha De, Jay B. Ghosh and Charles E. Wells

Optimization of guillotine shearing operations pp. 59-66

Phillip F. Ostwald and Michael O. Blake

Learning by doing and optimal factor demand pp. 67-79

Kofi Kissi Dompere and Kofi O. Nti

Determining gathering belt capacities for bulk conveyor networks with multiple discrete loading sources pp. 81-91

S. D. Thompson, J. V. Carnahan and Peter L. Webster