David S. Kim
Assistant Professor
Education:
- PhD 1990, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- M.S.E. Industrial and Operations Engineering. May 1989.
- B.S.E. Industrial and Operations Engineering. May 1984.
- University of California, Los Angeles. B.S. Biology. June 1982.
Research Interests:
My research focus is currently in the area of production system performance modeling,
production system design and buffer allocation, discrete event dynamic systems, and in
general the application and development of operations research models for decision
support. Current research projects include the development of performance analysis
methodology for mixed model, parallel line automotive body assembly systems; st
ructural
results in discrete event closed production systems, and methods and tools to aid in
production system design. These projects utilize both simulation and
analytical approaches as well as results form discrete event dynamic systems.
I strive to have most of my projects addressing issues that are of direct interest
to industry and for which there are no good solution techniques or methodologies
available (there are many such issues). Many of the projects will result in sof
tware tools. In the future I would like to establish support for a laboratory
so that graduate students can conduct their production systems research using the latest equipment and software.
Research Sponsors:
General Motors Corporation
Selected Publications:
- Kim, D.S.. (1991), "The Equivalence of Two Station Closed and Open Serial Production Systems," General Motors Research Laboratories, Research Publication GMR-7349. To be published in IIE Transactions (1997).
- Kim, D.S. and R.D. Meller. (1993), "The Impact of Preventive Maintenance on System Cost and Buffer Size," European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 95, No. 3, pp. 577-592, 1996.
- Kim, D.S. and J.M. Alden. (1997), "Estimating the Time to Produce a Fixed Lot Size on a Workstation with Deterministic Processing Times and Random Failures and Repairs, " To be published in the International Journal of Production Research.
- Kim, D.S., and R.L. Smith. (1995), "An Exact Aggregation/Disaggregation Algorithm for Large Scale Markov Chains," Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 42, pp. 1115-1128.
Contact Information:
- Office:
- 120E Marston
- Mail:
- David S. Kim
- MIE Department
- 220 ELAB
- University of Massachusetts
- Amherst, MA 01003-2210
- Phone:
- (413) 545-0707
- E-mail:
- dkim@ecs.umass.edu
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