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Seminar
jointly organised by
The
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management,
The
and
The
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Title: Theoretical and Practical Findings on Mass
Customization Manufacturing Systems
Speaker: Dr. Janet Efstathiou
Reader in Engineering Science
Department of Engineering Science
Date
: September 6th, 2006 (Wednesday)
Time
: 4:30pm -- 5:30pm.
Venue : Room 513
The
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Abstract:
Mass Customization poses many practical problems in the
design and
operation of a facility that is
capable of producing many kinds of
products to a short lead time and a
low cost, in response to a customer's
request. At
the complexity of a manufacturing
facility, defined as the amount of
information needed to know the
state of the products in the facility. By
adopting a simple model, consisting
of a push line, decoupling inventory
and a pull line, we have been able
to estimate the information load for
each aspect of the facility. We
have developed and compared a number of
different aspects for operating and
managing each aspect of the facility,
including inventory location
strategies and customer pre-orders. The
complexity-based analysis enables
comparison of the components of the
facility and provides
recommendations for the facility manager on what to
improve in order to produce the
biggest impact on the complexity of the
operation. The results and findings
from two case studies will be
presented and discussed.
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Biography:
Janet Efstathiou obtained a BA in
Physics at
followed by a PhD in Computing at
Engineering Science in the Department of Engineering
Science, University
of
ago, with interests in Mass
Customization, reconfigurable systems,
facility design, scheduling and the
complexity of manufacturing systems.
Dr Efstathiou is also a founding
member of the Cabdyn research cluster
(Complex Agent-Based Dynamic Networks).
This is a multi-disciplinary
collaboration involving colleagues
from physics, business studies,
biology, computing and statistics.
Recent work in this area is
investigating the structure of
supply networks and dynamic networks, such
as mobile communication networks.
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About the
The COSF was founded in 1992 to award scholarships for
Chinese
graduates to pursue postgraduate
studies at the
Its objective is for the students to then return to
contribute in leadership positions
that assist the future development
of their country. It seeks to emulate the success of the
Scholarship for Americans, and aims to enhance its programme to
include the provision of
facilities, pastoral and administrative
support at
objectives are to award 20-25
annual scholarships of 30,000 pounds per
student. This will require an annual disbursement
of around 1,000,000
pounds, for which the Fund aims to
raise a capital sum of 25 million
pounds. The Fund's patron is the Rt. Hon.
Baroness Thatcher of
Kesteven LG
COSF enquiries:
Gwyneth Pratt (Email: gwyneth@chinaoxford.org)
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CUHK seminar host: Janny Leung
Tel : (852) 2609-8238
Email : janny@se.cuhk.edu.hk
Seminar Enquiries: Mr. Peixiang
Zhao or Prof. Jeffrey Xu Yu,
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
CUHK
Email: seg5810@se.cuhk.edu.hk
Website: http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~seg5810
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