Heuristic production and sale policy for a two-product-type manufacturing system with downward substitution

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 929-942

  Wang, Zheng ^a   Gershwin, Stanley B ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Downward substitution; hedging point policy; optimal production control; switching curve policy; time delay

Indexed keywords

COST REDUCTION; DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SALES; TIME DELAY;

CONTROL PROBLEMS; DOWNWARD SUBSTITUTION; HEDGING POINT; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMAL PRODUCTION; STATE VARIABLES; TOTAL PRODUCTION COST; WORK IN PROCESS;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 84929304050     PISSN: 21682216     EISSN: 21682232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2014.2371876     Document Type: Article

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