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"Very different manufacturing strategies can be successful. However, the common denominators to improved performance typically include reduced flow time, quicker response time to customer orders and inquiries, lower inventory carrying costs, drastic reductions in nonvalue-added time, and smoother process and information flows."

 

 

 

 
Bruce Faaland
Professor of Quantitative Methods

PhD, Stanford University, 1971
MS, Stanford University, 1968
BS, Stanford University, 1966

Phone:   
 206-543-4633 Mailing Address:
Fax:
 206-543-3968 Michael G. Foster School of Business
Office:
Email:
 266 Mackenzie Hall
bfaaland@u.washington.edu
 Info Systems and Ops Management Department
Box 353200
Seattle, WA 98195-3200
     
Faculty Personal Web Page:   http://faculty.washington.edu/bfaaland/


Specialties

    Manufacturing (assembly lines, inventory control, materials management, performance measures, production strategies), project management, simulation modeling, mathematical programming models.

Positions Held

    At the University of Washington since 1971
    Visiting scientist at MIT Operations Research Center (1977-78)

Selected Publications and Multimedia

  • "Scheduling Recurrent Construction," with Tom Schmitt, Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 51, No. 8, December 2004, pp. 1102-1128.

  • “Economic Lot Scheduling with Lost Sales and Setup Times,” with T. Arreola-Risa and Tom Schmitt IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics, Vol. 36, No. 4, November 2003.

  • “Scheduling Method and System,” with T. Schmitt, U.S. Patent 5,524,077, 19 claims, 12 drawing sheets, 1996.

  • "Cost-based Scheduling of Workers and Equipment in a Fabrication and Assembly Shop,” with T. Schmitt Operations Research, Vol. 41, No. 2, 1993, pp. 253-268.

  • "Assembly Line Balancing with Resource Dependent Task Times," with T. Klastorin, T. Schmitt, and A. Shtub, Decision Sciences, Vol. 23, 1992, pp. 343-364.

  • “A New Algorithm for Computing the Maximal Closure of a Graph," with K. Kim and T. Schmitt , Management Science, Vol. 36, No. 3, 1990, pp. 315-331.

  • "An Improved Network Based Algorithm for the Assembly Line Balancing Problem," with F. Easton, T. Klastorin, and T. Schmitt , International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 27, No. 11, 1989, pp. 1901-1915.

  • "Spatially Constrained Timber Harvest Scheduling," with A. O'Hara and B. Bare, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Vol. 19, 1989, pp. 715-724.

  • "Scheduling Tasks Under Due Dates in a Fabrication/Assembly Process," with T. Schmitt, Operations Research, Vol. 35, No. 3, 1987.

  • "Log Bucking and Lumber Manufacturing Using Dynamic Programming," with D. Briggs, Management Science, Vol. 30, No. 2, 1984 pp. 245-257.

  • "Optimal Pagination of B-Trees with Variable-Length Items," with G. Diehr , Communications ACM, Vol. 27, No. 3, 1984, pp. 241-247.

  • "A Weighted Selected Algorithm for Certain Tree-Structured Linear Programs," Operations Research, Vol. 32, No. 2, 1984, pp. 405-422.

  • "The Multiperiod Knapsack Problem," Operations Research, Vol. 29, No. 3, 1981, pp. 612-616.

  • "The Linear Fractional Portfolio Selection Problem,” with N.L. Jacob, Management Science, Vol. 27, No. 12, 1981, pp. 1383-1389.

  • (1979)(with F. S. Hillier), "Interior Path Methods for Heuristic Integer Programming Procedures," Operations Research, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 1069-1087.

  • "The Accelerated Bound and Scan Algorithm for Integer Programming," with F.S. Hillier, Operations Research, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1975, pp. 406-425.

  • "Estimates and Bounds on Computational Effort in the Accelerated Bound and Scan Algorithm," Operations Research, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1975, pp. 426-433.

  • "An Integer Programming Algorithm for Portfolio Selection," Management Science, Vol. 20, No. 10, 1974, pp. 1376-1384.

  • "Generalized Equivalent Integer Programs and Canonical Problems," Management Science, Vol. 23, No. 12, 1974, pp. 1554-1560.

  • "Solution of the Value-Independent Knapsack Problem by Partitioning," Operations Research, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1973, pp. 332-337.

  • "On the Number of Solutions to a Diophantine Equation," Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1972.


Current Research

    Scheduling repetitive construction projects (airplanes, houses, trucks), economic lot size problems.

Honors and Awards

    Burlington Northern/Burlington Resources Professor of Manufacturing Management (1992-98)
    Finalist in the Instructional Innovation Award Competition of the Decision Sciences Institute (1996)
    Arthur Andersen Professor of Management Science (1987-91)
    GTE Professor of Quantitative Methods (1986-87)
    Burlington Northern Foundation Teaching Achievement Award (1983)
    MBA Professor of the Year (1982-83)

Selected Consulting Experience

  • AVTECH, programming model to generate schedules for workers, machines, and product flow.
  • Boeing, programming and simulation to analyze final assembly operations.
  • Keg Restaurants, simulation to analyze changes to design and layout of restaurants.




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