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Russell E. King

Russell E. King

Office phone: (919) 515-5186
Office Fax: (919) 515-1543
Office location: Daniels 126-A
E-mail: king@ncsu.edu

Professor and

Director of the Furniture Manufacturing and Management Center

Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, University of Florida, 1986
M.E. Industrial Engineering, University of Florida, 1982
B.S. Systems Engineering, University of Florida, 1980

Russell King is a professor of Industrial Engineering and Director of the Furniture Manufacturing and Management Center at North Carolina State University. He joined the faculty in 1985. He is also an associate faculty member of the Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering Institute, the Operations Research Program, and the Textiles and Apparel Management Department. He has industrial experience with Dynamac Corporation, the Jacksonville Naval Aviation Depot (US Navy), and Computer Science Corporation. He has been awarded the C. A. Anderson Outstanding Faculty Award (on four occasions), the NCSU Alcoa Foundation Engineering Achievement Award, the Institute of Industrial Engineers Technical Innovation Award, the Institute of Industrial Engineers Albert G. Holtzman Distinguished Educator Award, the NCSU George H. Blessis Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award and is an NCSU Alumni Distinguished Graduate Faculty Professor.

Dr. King is the Academic Advisor to our student chapter of IIE and is the Undergraduate Scholarship Coordinator. He is a Felow of IIE, and is a member of INFORMS, Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Pi Mu, and Omega Rho.

Areas of Interest

Logistics engineering, production scheduling and inventory control for manufacturing/remanufacturing systems under risk, design and control of manufacturing systems, and modeling and evaluation of quick response sourcing, manufacturing and retail systems.

Selected Publications

  • Ding, F.Y., T.J. Hodgson and R.E. King, (1988) A methodology for computation reduction for specially Structured large sScale Markov decision problems, European Journal of Operational Research, 34(1), pp. 105-112.
  • Hodgson, T.J., R.E. King and C.U. King, (1991) Development of a production planning system: A case study, Production and Inventory Management, 1(4), pp. 18-24.
  • Nuttle, H.L.W, R.E. King and N.A. Hunter,(1991) A stochastic model of the apparel retailing process for seasonal apparel, Journal of the Textile Institute, 82(2), pp. 247-259.
  • Deleersnyder, J.L., T.J. Hodgson, R.E. King, P.J. O'Grady, and A. Savva, (1992) Integrating kanban type pull systems and MRP type push systems: Insights from a Markovian model, IIE Transactions, 24(3), pp. 43-56.
  • King, R.E., T.J. Hodgson and F.W. Chafee, (1993) Robot task scheduling in a flexible manufacturing cell, IIE Transactions, 25(2), pp. 80-87.
  • Joines, J.A., C.T. Culbreth and R.E. King, (1996) Manufacturing cell design: An integer programming model employing genetic algorithms, IIE Transactions, 28(1), pp. 69-85.
  • Stanfield, P.M., R.E. King, and J.A. Joines, (1996) Scheduling arrivals to a production system in a fuzzy environment, European Journal of Operational Research, 93(1), pp. 75-87.
  • King, R.E. and N.A. Hunter, (1996) Demand re-estimation and inventory replenishment of basic apparel in a specialty retail chain, Journal of the Textile Institute, 87(1), pp. 31-41.
  • Hunter, N.A., R.E. King, and, H.L.W. Nuttle, (1996) Evaluation of traditional and quick response retailing procedures using a stochastic simulation model, Journal of the Textile Institute, 87(1), pp. 42-55.
  • Hodgson, T.J., G. Ge, R.E. King, and H. Said, (1997) Dynamic lot-size/sequencing policies in a multi-product single-machine system, IIE Transactions, 29(2), pp. 127-137.
  • Stanfield, P.M., R.E. King, and T.J. Hodgson, (1997) Multiobjective stochastic scheduling of job ready times, Annals of OR, 70, pp. 221-239.
  • Hodgson, T.J., R.E. King, and P.M. Stanfield, (1997) Ready time scheduling with stochastic service times, Operations Research, 45(5), pp. 779-783.
  • Weintraub, A.J., D. Cormier, T.J. Hodgson, R.E. King, J.R. Wilson, A. Zozom, (1999) Scheduling with alternatives: A link between process planning and scheduling, IIE Transactions, 31(11), pp. 1093-1102.
  • Hodgson, T.J., R.E. King, K. Thoney, N. Stanislaw, A.J. Weintraub, A.J. Zozom, Jr., (2000) On satisfying due-dates in large job shops: Idle time insertion, IIE Transactions, 32, pp. 177-180.
  • Thoney, K.A., T.J. Hodgson, R.E. King, M.R. Taner, and A.D. Wilson, (2002) Satisfying due-dates in large multi-factory supply chains, IIE Transactions, 34(9), 801-811.
  • King, R.E., L.A.C. Brain, and K.A. Thoney, (2002) Control of yarn inventory for a cotton spinning plant: part 2: Correlated demand and seasonality, Journal of Textile and Apparel Management, 2(2).
  • King, R.E., W.K. Moon, H.L.W. Nuttle, and K.A. Thoney, (2002) Analysis of inventory stocking policies to support quick response retailing, Journal of the Textile Institute, 98(3), 25-35.
  • Zozom, A. Jr., T.J. Hodgson, R.E. King, A.J. Weintraub, and D. Cormier, (2003) Integrated job release and shop floor scheduling to minimize WIP and meet due-dates, International Journal of Production Research, 41(1), 31-45.
  • Taner, M.R., T.J. Hodgson, R.E. King, and K.A. Thoney, (2003) Satisfying due-dates in a job shop with sequence dependent family setups, International Journal of Production Research, 41(17), 4153-4169.
  • Wilson, A.D., R.E. King, and J.R. Wilson, (2004) Case study on statistically estimating minimum makespan for flow line scheduling problems, European Journal of OR, 155(2), 439-454.
  • Stanfield, P.M, J.R. Wilson, and R.E. King, (2004) Flexible modeling of correlated operation times with application in product reuse facilities, International Journal of Production Research, 42(11), 2179-2196.
  • Schultz, S.R., T.J. Hodgson, R.E. King, and M.R. Taner, (2004) Minimizing Lmax for the single machine scheduling problem with family setups and job due dates, International Journal of Production Research, 42(20), 4315-4330.
  • Schultz, S.R., T.J. Hodgson, R.E. King, and K.A. Thoney, (2004) On minimizing Lmax for the job shop scheduling problem, International Journal of Production Research, 42(23), 4893-4907.
  • Wilson, A.D., R.E. King, and T.J. Hodgson, (2004) Scheduling non-similar groups on a flow line: Multiple group setups, RCIM, 20(6), 505-515.
  • Stanfield, P.M., R.E. King, and T.J. Hodgson, (2006) Determining sequence and ready times in a remanufacturing system, IIE Transactions, 38, 597-607.
  • Taner, M.R., T.J. Hodgson, R.E. King, and S.R. Schultz, (2007) Satisfying Due-Dates in the Presence of Sequence Dependent Family Setups, Computers and IE, 52, 57-70.
  • Davis, L.B., T.J. Hodgson, R.E. King, and W.-B. Wei, (2009) A Computationally Efficient Algorithm for MDPs with Restricted Observations, Naval Research Logistics, 56(1), 86-92.
  • Ahiska, S.S. and R.E. King, (2010) Inventory optimization in a one product recoverable manufacturing system, International Journal of Production Economics, 124(1), 11-19.
  • Ahiska, S.S. and R.E. King, (2010) Life cycle inventory policy characterizations for a single-product recoverable system, International Journal of Production Economics, 124(1), 51-61.
  • Davis, L.B., R.E. King, T.J. Hodgson, and W.-B. Wei, (2010) Information Sharing in Capacity Constrained Supply Chains under Lost Sales, International Journal of Production Research, to appear.

    • Books

    • Lowson, R., R.E. King, and N.A. Hunter, (1999) Quick Response: Managing the Supply Chain to Meet Consumer Demand, John Wiley and Sons, Sussex, England.
    • Hunter, N.A., R.E. King, and R. Lowson, (2002) The Textile/Clothing Pipeline and Quick Response Management, The Textile Institute, Manchester, UK.