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A Study of Production Smoothing in a Job Shop Environment

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  • Allan B. Cruickshanks

    (Rolm Corp., Austin, Texas)

  • Robert D. Drescher

    (Rolm Corp., Austin, Texas)

  • Stephen C. Graves

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Abstract

We consider the problem of smoothing production in a job shop in which all production is to customer order and the demand process is a stationary stochastic process. We present an approach to production smoothing based on the concept of a planning window. A planning window is the difference between the promised delivery time and the planned production time for a product. It represents the degree of flexibility available for planning the production of committed orders. We characterize the production smoothing benefits for a range of planning windows by means of an approximate analytic model and a simulation study. These analyses show that substantial smoothing benefits result from small changes in the length of the planning window. We discuss the implementation of the production smoothing approach and illustrate this implementation with an industrial case study that was the motivation for this work.

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  • Allan B. Cruickshanks & Robert D. Drescher & Stephen C. Graves, 1984. "A Study of Production Smoothing in a Job Shop Environment," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 30(3), pages 368-380, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:30:y:1984:i:3:p:368-380
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.30.3.368
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    1. Scott Webster & Z. Kevin Weng, 2001. "Improving Repetitive Manufacturing Systems: Model and Insights," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 49(1), pages 99-106, February.
    2. Graves, Stephen C., 1984. "Operational analysis of a job shop," Working papers 1552-84., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management.
    3. Rong Yuan & Stephen C. Graves, 2016. "Setting optimal production lot sizes and planned lead times in a job shop," International Journal of Production Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(20), pages 6105-6120, October.
    4. Graves, Stephen C., 1985. "Determining the spares and staffing level for a repair depot," Working papers 1699-85., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management.
    5. Anantaram Balakrishnan & Joseph Geunes & Michael S. Pangburn, 2004. "Coordinating Supply Chains by Controlling Upstream Variability Propagation," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS, vol. 6(2), pages 163-183, July.
    6. Graves, Stephen C. & Meal, Harlan C. & Dasu, Sririam. & Qui, Yuping., 1985. "Two-stage production planning in a dynamic environment," Working papers 1698-85., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management.

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