... the system is implemented, the ordering policy decisions are made. In this paper, a coupled approach is presented whereby the manufacturing system design is jointly developed with the ordering policy to minimize the total cost of inventory holding, setup, and equipment investment in a multiproduct system...

...Jeonghan Ko; S. Jack Hu The conventional approaches to manufacturing system design and line balancing have often focused on a single generation of products, thus leading to new design or rebalancing when new products are introduced or different models are produced in the same line. As the life...