A Note on Linear Programming and the Single Machine Lotsize Scheduling Problem. Revision.

Abstract

Past research on the lotsize scheduling problem has relied heavily on the following assumptions: 1. Each product is to be produced on a regular invariant cycle. 2. The inventory level at the onset of each production run is zero. In this paper these two restrictions have been dropped. It is shown that the inventory cost function can be expressed as a linear function. This allows the use of linear programming methods to determine the optimal lengths for a given sequence of production runs. Additional keywords: industrial engineering; inventory analysis. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA159683

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  • H. L. W. Nuttle
  • Thom J. Hodgson

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  • North Carolina State University

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Engineering
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Inventory
  • Linear Programming
  • Military Research
  • North Carolina
  • Production
  • Production Rate
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Sequences

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  • Mathematics

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  • Industrial Economics
  • Operations Research