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Activity-on-node networks with minimal and maximal time lags and their application to make-to-order production

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Maximal time lags between activities of a project play an important role in practice in addition to minimal ones. However, maximal time lags have been discussed very rarely in literature thus far. This paper shows how to model projects with minimal and maximal time lags by cyclic activity-on-node networks. As an important application, the production process for make-to-order production with limited resources is studied, which can be represented by a multi-project network where the individual operations of the jobs correspond to the nodes of the network. For different product structures, careful consideration is given to the modelling of a nondelay performance of overlapping operations by appropriately establishing minimal and maximal time lags.

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Zeitliche Maximalabstände zwischen den Vorgängen eines Projektes spielen neben zeitlichen Minimalabständen in der Praxis eine wesentliche Rolle. Bis heute sind zeitliche Maximalabstände jedoch in der Literatur kaum behandelt worden. Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt, wie Projekte mit zeitlichen Minimal- und Maximalabständen als zyklische Vorgangsknotennetzwerke modelliert werden können. Als wichtige Anwendung wird der Produktionsprozeß in der Auftragsfertigung mit Kapazitätsbeschränkungen behandelt, der als Multi-Projekt-Netzwerk dargestellt werden kann, wobei die einzelnen Arbeitsgänge den Knoten des Netzwerks entsprechen. Für verschiedene Produktionsstrukturen wird die Modellierung einer unterbrechungsfreien offenen Fertigung durch die Bestimmung geeigneter zeitlicher Minimal- und Maximalabstände beschrieben.

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Neumann, K., Schwindt, C. Activity-on-node networks with minimal and maximal time lags and their application to make-to-order production. OR Spektrum 19, 205–217 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01545589

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