Miscellaneous topics in industrial engineering

Most of my recent work has been in two areas:

• Bucket brigade assembly lines, which are self-balancing and have been proven to work extremely well in practice. Most citations may be found in the link above; but here are the most recent.
  • Chaos and convergence in bucket brigade assembly lines, with D. Eisenstein and Y. F. Lim. Submitted, 2006.
  • Bucket brigades on in-tree assembly networks, with D. Eisenstein and Y. F. Lim, European J. Operational Research 168(3):870-879, special issue on balancing assembly and transfer lines (2006)
  • Using bucket brigades to migrate from craft manufacturing to assembly lines, with D. Eisenstein. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 7(2):121-129 (2005)
• Warehouse & Distribution Science, a book-in-progress

Other publications include:

• The vertex-adjacency dual of a triangulated irregular network has a Hamiltonian cycle, with P. Goldsman. Operations Research Letters 32:304-308.
• Using Shapley value to allocate savings in a supply chain, with E. Kemahlioglu Ziya. In Supply Chain Optimization, eds. P. Pardalos and J. Geunes, Kluwer Optimization Series.
• The best shape for a crossdock, with K. R. Gue. Transportation Science 38(2):235-244 (2004).
• Reducing labor costs in an LTL cross-docking terminal, with K. R. Gue. A slightly revised version appeared in Operations Research 48(6):823-832 (2000).
• A probabilistic analysis of 2-machine flowshops, with A. Ramudhin, J. M. Calvin, J. H. Vande Vate, and G. Weiss. A slightly revised version appeared in Operations Research 44(6):899-908 (1994).
• An interactive program to balance assembly lines. A slightly revised version appeared in the International Journal of Production Research 31(10):2447-2461 (1993).
• Scheduling interviews at a job fair, with K. L. McCroan. A slightly revised version appeared in Operations Research 38(6):951-960 (1990).
• Expected performance of the shelf heuristic for 2-dimensional packing, with J. H. Vande Vate and J. Zhang;Operations Research Letters 8(1):11-16 (1989).
• Decentralized control of automated guided vehicles on a simple loop, with L. K. Platzman; IIE Transactions 21(1):76-81 (1989).