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Managing an assembly production process with a proper control policy

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  • Yaghoub Khojasteh-Ghamari
  • Ryo Sato

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To control the production of parts in a production process, managers can choose a proper control policy. In this paper, we study the performance of three control policies, kanban, CONWIP and base-stock in a single-product production process. The performance measures are system throughput and work-in-process (WIP) inventory. Periodic behaviour of a token transaction system is focused on. When the system behaves periodically, Little's law can be used to calculate the performance measures. We provide a performance comparison for those three production control policies in serial production lines as well as in tree-shaped production processes. We compare the minimum WIP of the system for each policy, when the system attains maximum possible throughput. The results show that there is no general superiority among kanban, CONWIP and base-stock. Appropriate design of the whole system decides which one is superior in a certain situation.

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  • Yaghoub Khojasteh-Ghamari & Ryo Sato, 2011. "Managing an assembly production process with a proper control policy," International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 22(1), pages 2-25.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmtma:v:22:y:2011:i:1:p:2-25
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    1. Rosa Hendijani, 2021. "Analytical thinking, Little's Law understanding, and stock‐flow performance: two empirical studies," System Dynamics Review, System Dynamics Society, vol. 37(2-3), pages 99-125, April.

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