This broad area of research encompasses the following specific research areas: Industrial Quality Control, Quality, Reliability and Maintenance, Lean Manufacturing, Productivity Management, Queuing, Systems Simulation, Simulation Dynamics, Operations Research & Management, Production & Materials Management, Project Management, Total Quality Management, Supply Chain Management, Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Business Process Reengineering, Applied Probabilities, Facilities Planning, Enterprise Modeling, Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Value Engineering, Flexible Systems, Healthcare Systems, Education Systems, Agile Manufacturing Systems, ERP, CIMS and Beyond, Enterprise Modeling, Enterprise Architecture, Extended Enterprises, Decision-Information Synchronization in Flexible Systems, Concurrent Planning, Methodology of Enterprise Modeling, Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Knowledge Management, e-business, IT effectiveness in Enterprise Systems.