Author Description

"Responsible Manufacturing has become an obligation to the environment and to society itself, enforced primarily by customer perspective and governmental regulations. This new book provides a foundation for academicians interested in this area and will also help practitioners understand how strategic planning issues can be approached or modelled using a quantitative solution methodology in a decision-making situation. The solutions are developed using popular industrial engineering and operations research techniques from integer programming, simulation modeling, queueing theory, goal programming, linear physical programming, material requirements planning, and analytical hierarchy process"--