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Three-level inventory deployment for a luxury watch company facing various perturbations

Philippe Wieser, Nicolas Zufferey, Jean Respen

A well-known Swiss watch brand, active in the top-end luxury market, is facing a complex inventory deployment problem where watches of different models (more than 100 different models) must be dispatched first to wholesalers to finally reach the shops wher ...

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd2016

On the Evolution of Fingertip Grasping Manifolds

Aude Billard

Efficient and accurate planning of fingertip grasps is essential for dexterous in-hand manipulation. In this work, we present a system for fingertip grasp planning that incrementally learns a heuristic for hand reachability and multi-fingered inverse kinem ...

Ieee2016

Supply Chain Disruption Risk Management

Florian Christopher Matthias Lücker

It is well established that firms are exposed to the risk of supply chain disruptions. Many firms build risk mitigation strategies in order to increase the resilience of their supply chains. In this dissertation we present three essays that study operation ...

EPFL2016

Optimisation of industrial production of low-force sensors – adhesive bonding of force-centring ball

Peter Ryser, Thomas Maeder, Caroline Jacq, Maxime Blot

This work addresses the issue of attaching the force-centring part (a round ball) to the load cell of a force sensor, a piezoresistive thick-film Wheatstone bridge deposited onto a ceramic cantilever. As the current soldering process requires expensive met ...

IOP2015

A production planning in highly automated manufacturing system considering multiple process plans with different energy requirements

Paul Xirouchakis, Yong Chan Choi

This paper focuses on a production planning problem in a highly automated manufacturing system considering multiple process plans with different energy requirements. The system consists of several closely interconnected sub-systems such as the processing s ...

Springer London Ltd2014

A new formulation of the two-dimensional cutting-stock problem with consideration of demand planning

Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Omar Ayadi

This paper focuses on the two dimensional rectangular non-oriented guillotine cutting stock problem (TDRCSP) in which many pieces with different dimensions need to be cut with different quantities in order to satisfy customers' orders. In order to maximise ...

2012

Optimal inventory policies with non-stationary supply disruptions and advance supply information

Bilge Atasoy

We consider the production/inventory problem of a manufacturer (or a retailer) under non-stationary and stochastic supply availability. Although supply availability is uncertain, the supplier would be able to predict her near future shortages and hence sup ...

2012

Resource-based Planning with Timelines

Jingshi Li

Real world planning applications typically involve making decisions that consumes limited resources, which requires both planning and scheduling. In this paper we propose a new approach that bridges the gap between planning and scheduling by explicitly mod ...

2012

Production + Paradox

Russell Alexander Loveridge

Presentation of the work being done in the Digital Design and Production course at the EPFL. The presentation highlighted the relationships of digital design to digital production methods, and focused on demonstrating the similarity between creative design ...

2011

ERP data sharing framework using the Generic Product Model (GPM)

Rémy Glardon, Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Michel Pouly, Souleïman Naciri

Nowadays all product life cycle processes are investigated deeply in order to get an advantage over competitors To support these processes several software applications are available However this wide range of heterogeneous applications leads to a large va ...

Elsevier2011

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