In this work we address the optimization of the production of household appliances in a white line segment. The main characteristics of this production process are maximum number of lot breaks per time period; production ...

The present study aims to value lead time in a luxury product supply chain. Lead time could be seen as an important element in a responsive supply chain strategy while responsiveness is the ability of reacting to unexpected ...

We address the Constrained Guillotine Cutting Problems (CGCP) in this doctoral thesis. The CGCP consist of producing items from objects using guillotine cuts, i.e., cuts that divide the rectangular materials into two ...