Industrial engineering and production management (JESA VOLUME 32 N°4 juin 1998

IEPM'97 (International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Production Management) took place in Lyon (France) from 20 until 24 October 1997. The special issue of the Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés is dedicated to Production Scheduling and Control. Eight papers have been selected by the reviewers and have been improved again by referee process.

A capacited hierarchical approach to make-to-order production. Object oriented methodology with Neighborhood search techniques and hybrid methods for scheduling problems. Minimizing makespan on a single batch processing machine with nonidentical job sizes. Scheduling vehicles in a cyclic flexible flowshop. New separation scheme for hybrid flowshop. A trade-off between data quality and updating costs in scheduling databases. Proposal of an event filtering approach to improve the reactive management of complex industrial systems. Robust production control.