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  • 2009 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute
  • Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute
  • Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute

Overview

Kathryn E. Stecke is affiliated with The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States and specializes in research primarily within engineering and business management fields. Their work spans several interconnected areas including industrial and manufacturing engineering, economics, organizational behavior, strategy, and management information systems.

Their recent publications reflect a focus on optimization and manufacturing processes, with notable papers such as:

  • Balancing collaborative human-robot assembly lines to optimise cycle time and ergonomic risk (2021), published in International Journal of Production Research
  • Operational Research: methods and applications (2023), published in Journal of the Operational Research Society
  • A network-of-networks adaptation for cross-industry manufacturing repurposing (2023), published in IISE Transactions
  • Selling to a financially constrained E-commerce retailer with bankruptcy cost and tax (2021), published in Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review
  • Simultaneous part input sequencing and robot scheduling for mass customisation (2021), published in International Journal of Production Research

Their research topics include the following:

  • Assembly Line Balancing Optimization
  • Manufacturing Process and Optimization
  • Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
  • Facility Location and Emergency Management
  • Supply Chain and Inventory Management
  • Optimization and Mathematical Programming
  • Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management

Kathryn E. Stecke frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Fotios Petropoulos
  • Gilbert Laporte
  • Emel Aktaş
  • Sibel A. Alumur
  • Claudia Archetti

Publication venues where they have contributed include:

  • International Journal of Production Research
  • Journal of the Operational Research Society
  • IISE Transactions
  • Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review
  • ePrints Soton (University of Southampton)

Stecke's work is situated within the broader fields of engineering and business, with a strong emphasis on the practical applications of operational research methods in supply chains, manufacturing systems, and logistics.

Kathryn E. Stecke has been recognized with professional honors such as being named a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 2009, as well as recognition as a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute.

Best Publications

  • Classification of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

    Jim Browne;Didier Dubois;Suresh Sethi;Keith Rathmill

  • Formulation and Solution of Nonlinear Integer Production Planning Problems for Flexible Manufacturing Systems

    Kathryn E. Stecke

  • The evolution of production systems from Industry 2.0 through Industry 4.0

    Yong Yin;Kathryn E. Stecke;Dongni Li

  • Loading and control policies for a flexible manufacturing system

    Kathryn E. Stecke;James J. Solberg

  • Design, planning, scheduling, and control problems of flexible manufacturing systems

    Kathryn E. Stecke

  • Sources of Supply Chain Disruptions, Factors That Breed Vulnerability, and Mitigating Strategies

    Kathryn E. Stecke;Sanjay Kumar

  • A Branch and Bound Approach for Machine Load Balancing in Flexible Manufacturing Systems

    Mohammed Berrada;Kathryn E. Stecke

  • A synthesis of decision models for tool management in automated manufacturing

    Ann E. Gray;Abraham Seidmann;Kathryn E. Stecke

  • The Optimality of Unbalancing Both Workloads and Machine Group Sizes in Closed Queueing Networks of Multiserver Queues

    Kathryn E. Stecke;James J. Solberg

  • Lessons from seru production on manufacturing competitively in a high cost environment

    Yong Yin;Yong Yin;Kathryn E. Stecke;Morgan Swink;Ikou Kaku

  • Using Petri nets to represent production processes

    Didier Dubois;Kathryn Stecke

  • A Hierarchical approach to solving machine grouping and loading problems of flexible manufacturing systems

    Kathryn E. Stecke

  • REVIEW OF OPERATOR/MACHINE INTERFERENCE MODELS.

    Kathryn E. Stecke;Jay E. Aronson

  • Production and Transportation Integration for a Make-to-Order Manufacturing Company with a Commit-to-Delivery Business Mode

    Kathryn E. Stecke;Xuying Zhao

  • A study of FMS part type selection approaches for short-term production planning

    Kathryn E. Stecke;Ilyong Kim

  • Seru: The Organizational Extension of JIT for a Super-Talent Factory

    Kathryn E. Stecke;Yong Yin;Ikou Kaku;Yasuhiko Murase

  • Mitigating disruptions in a multi-echelon supply chain using adaptive ordering

    Thomas G. Schmitt;Sanjay Kumar;Kathryn E. Stecke;Fred W. Glover

  • An implementation framework for seru production

    Chen Guang Liu;Kathryn E. Stecke;Jie Lian;Yong Yin

  • The optimality of balancing workloads in certain types of flexible manufacturing systems

    Kathryn E. Stecke;Thomas L. Morin

  • Classification and review of FMS scheduling procedures

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  • On the optimal allocation of servers and workloads in closed queueing networks

    Yves Dallery;Kathryn E. Stecke

Frequent Co-Authors

Ashutosh Prasad
Ashutosh Prasad University of California, Riverside
Didier Dubois
Didier Dubois Paul Sabatier University
Jaideep Motwani
Jaideep Motwani Grand Valley State University
Frank T. Piller
Frank T. Piller RWTH Aachen University
André Langevin
André Langevin Polytechnique Montréal
Alain Hertz
Alain Hertz Polytechnique Montréal
Fred Glover
Fred Glover University of Colorado Boulder
Dimitris Kiritsis
Dimitris Kiritsis École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Gilbert Laporte
Gilbert Laporte HEC Montréal
Zhiping Lin
Zhiping Lin Nanyang Technological University

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