Search Results - "Pfund, Michele"

Multiple-objective heuristics for scheduling unrelated parallel machines by Lin, Yang-Kuei, Fowler, John W., Pfund, Michele E.

“…► We propose three heuristics to find solutions to parallel machine scheduling problems. ► We consider makespan, total weighted completion time, and total…”
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Extending the boundaries between scheduling and dispatching: hedging and rescheduling techniques by Pfund, Michele E., Fowler, John W.

“…While deterministic scheduling models have been well studied, the use of these models is not well documented in manufacturing environments. Previous research…”
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Heuristic scheduling of jobs on parallel batch machines with incompatible job families and unequal ready times by Mönch, Lars, Balasubramanian, Hari, Fowler, John W., Pfund, Michele E.

“…This research is motivated by a scheduling problem found in the diffusion and oxidation areas of semiconductor wafer fabrication, where the machines can be…”
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Improving the push-pull strategy in a serial supply chain by a hybrid push-pull control with multiple pulling points by Kim, Seung-Hwan, Fowler, John W., Shunk, Dan L., Pfund, Michele E.

“…Because of its benefits - from lowered inventory costs to greater flexibility in adapting to shifting market forces - the push-pull strategy is being widely…”
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Processing time generation schemes for parallel machine scheduling problems with various correlation structures by Lin, Yang -Kuei, Pfund, Michele E., Fowler, John W.

“…This research considers the generation of random processing times for parallel machine scheduling problems. We present several processing time generation…”
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A multi-criteria approach for scheduling semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities by Pfund, Michele E., Balasubramanian, Hari, Fowler, John W., Mason, Scott J., Rose, Oliver

“…In this research, we model a semiconductor wafer fabrication process as a complex job shop, and adapt a Modified Shifting Bottleneck Heuristic (MSBH) to…”
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Impact of permutation enforcement when minimizing total weighted tardiness in dynamic flowshops with uncertain processing times by Swaminathan, Rajesh, Pfund, Michele E., Fowler, John W., Mason, Scott J., Keha, Ahmet

“…This paper is motivated by the problem of meeting due dates in a flowshop production environment with jobs with different weights and uncertain processing…”
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Dynamic co-ordinated scheduling in the supply chain considering flexible routes by Liu, Aijun, Fowler, John, Pfund, Michele

“…In Supply chain (SC) environments, schedules inevitably experience various unexpected disruptions. In these cases, rescheduling is essential to minimise the…”
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Evaluating the impacts of reticle requirements in semiconductor wafer fabrication by de Diaz, S.L.M., Fowler, J.W., Pfund, M.E., Mackulak, G.T., Hickie, M.

“…Photolithography is generally the most constraining workstation in a semiconductor fabrication facility. Up to this point, much of the research and analysis in…”
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Scheduling interfering job sets on parallel machines by Balasubramanian, Hari, Fowler, John, Keha, Ahmet, Pfund, Michele

“…We consider bicriteria scheduling on identical parallel machines in a nontraditional context: jobs belong to two disjoint sets, and each set has a different…”
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Robust scaling parameters for composite dispatching rules by Chen, Jenny Yan, Pfund, Michele E., Fowler, John W., Montgomery, Douglas C., Callarman, Thomas E.

“…The successful implementation of composite dispatching rules depends on the values of their scaling parameters. A unified four-phase method to determine robust…”
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Scheduling jobs on parallel machines with setup times and ready times by Pfund, Michele, Fowler, John W., Gadkari, Amit, Chen, Yan

“…In this research we are interested in scheduling jobs with ready times on identical parallel machines with sequence dependent setups. Our objective is to…”
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Genetic algorithm based scheduling of parallel batch machines with incompatible job families to minimize total weighted tardiness by Balasubramanian, Hari, Mönch, Lars, Fowler, John, Pfund, Michele

“…This research is motivated by a scheduling problem found in the diffusion and oxidation areas of semiconductor wafer fabrication, where the machines can be…”
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Evaluation of uncertainty on scheduling algorithms in printed wiring board manufacturing by Pfund, Michele Eileen

“…Unrelated parallel machine scheduling problems have been well studied for several single-objective cases under deterministic processing conditions. While these…”
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Evaluation of uncertainty on scheduling algorithms in printed wiring board manufacturing by Pfund, Michele Eileen

“…Unrelated parallel machine scheduling problems have been well studied for several single-objective cases under deterministic processing conditions. While these…”
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A SURVEY OF ALGORITHMS FOR SINGLE AND MULTI-OBJECTIVE UNRELATED PARALLEL-MACHINE DETERMINISTIC SCHEDULING PROBLEMS by Pfund, Michele, Fowler, John W., Gupta, Jatinder N. D.

“…This paper surveys the literature related to solving traditional unrelated parallel-machine scheduling problems. It compiles algorithms for the makespan, total…”
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Multi-Objective Semiconductor Manufacturing Scheduling: A Random Keys Implementation of NSGA-II by Mason, S.J., Kurz, M.E., Pfund, M.E., Fowler, J.W., Pohl, L.M.

“…We examine a complex, multi-objective semiconductor manufacturing scheduling problem involving two batch processing steps linked by a timer constraint. This…”
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Scheduling of unrelated parallel machines: an application to PWB manufacturing by YU, LIAN, SHIH, HELOISA M., PFUND, MICHELE, MATTHEW CARLYLE, W., FOWLER, JOHN W.

“…In this paper, we tackle scheduling the bottleneck operation of a Printed Wiring Board (PWB) manufacturing line. The problem may be characterized as unrelated…”
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