Production management methods : proceedings of the IFIP WG5.7 Working Conference on Evaluation of Production Management Methods, Gramado, Brazil, 21-24 March, 1994

Part 1 Invited papers: beyond year 2000 - production management in the virtual company, A. Rolstadas games and organizational development - a new dimension for production management system, J.O. Riis a methodology to evaluate the best industrial practices in the frame of the IMS programme - GLOBEMAN 21, G. Doumeingts et al multi phase master planning, P.M.J. Giesberts and J.C. Wortmann. Part 2 Classification of manufacturing systems: a diversified approach towards purchasing and supply, R.H.A. van Stekelenborg and L. Kornelius selection and effective implementation of manufacturing control systems - a knowledge based approach, A.K. Kochhar interaction models and evaluation of production management systems - action research for productivity improvement, T.A. Hansen et al. Part 3 Modelling: manufacturing systems modelling, specification and analysis, F. Vernadat logistic concept development - a new approach to overall integrated logistics modelling and design, C. Moller et al engineering tool-kit for implementation of shop floor control systems, B. Hirsch et al replacing the BOM by manifestation of product and production, Z. Xinli et al production planning and control on the basis of control theory, H.-P. Wiendahl and D. Petermann control system for FMS workstations, C.A. Tacla et al enterprise operation model - a tool for the management of manufacture changing process, H. Rozenfeld and A.F. Rentes production management by detecting and avoiding chaos, H.K. Tonshoff and M. Glockner control and dynamic scheduling in virtual organization of production resources, R.J. Rabelo and L.M. Camarinha-Matos. Part 4 Performance evaluation: methods for a production scheduling activity support - development and evaluation in practice, I. Inoue and M. Fuyuki evaluation of organizational changes in lean production systems, G. Zulch supporting industrial enterprise decision making - a new generation of systems in Pirelli, G. Basaglia et al production management elements for the learning enterprise, B. Hamacher et al a simulation based system to evaluate the performance of production management systems, H.-P. Wiendahl and P. Scholtissek modelling with CIMOSA - a case study, E. Lutherer et al. Part 5 Scheduling: a decision aid approach to solve scheduling problems in an industrial application, K. Kessous et al workpieces scheduling in a flexible manufacturing cell, E. Teixeira and A. Yamakami contingency and performance-driven reactive scheduling in discrete event dynamic environment, E. Szelke and G. M'rkus. Part 6 Information systems: using a decision support system for CIM system life cycle support, J.J. Pinto Ferreira and J.M. Mendonca DEMOS - implementation aspects of open distributed decision support tools in production management systems, W.P.D.C. Loyolla et al integrated management system for engineering supported by a metadata base, H. Rozendfeld et al. (Part contents).