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Improving the electronics manufacturing response in an assembly-to-order environment

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  • Petri T. Helo, Olli-Pekka K. Hilmola

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Manufacturing of electronics products requires high quality and rapid response for customer satisfaction and business profitability. In this paper, the authors propose a queuing theory based method for improving the response measured as order lead time. In the literature, models have illustrated well the trade-off between capacity utilisation and lead time. The results show the possibilities of defining lot sizes as time-based variables. This reduces the variation in service rate and helps in forecasting the actual available-to-promise capability of a production system. The practical applicability of the approximation is discussed as well improvements for further research.

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  • Petri T. Helo, Olli-Pekka K. Hilmola, 2003. "Improving the electronics manufacturing response in an assembly-to-order environment," International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 5(4), pages 362-370.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmtma:v:5:y:2003:i:4:p:362-370
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