Delivery date decision support system for the large scale make-to-order manufacturing companies: A Korean electric motor company case

Park, Chang-Kyu; Song, Jung-Su; Kim, Jae-Gyun; Kim, In-Soo

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“…Further empirical studies categorised in Group 1, where implementation success was less conclusive, were presented by Bertrand and Wortman (1981), Tatsiopoulos (1983), Fry and Smith (1987), Hendry (1989), and . Finally, research in Group 3 emerged at the end of the 1990s when Park et al (1999) implemented customer enquiry management theory from the LUMS Approach but without the order release rule. A hybrid system was built that retained the company's existing releasing policy.…”

Section: Analytical Research: Future Research Directionsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Key problems were uncontrolled delays in engineering and inadequate capacity planning overviews to support sales decisions. The former could be accounted for within the order entry/pre-production stage of WLC, while the latter can be overcome by applying WLC principles as shown in the work of Park et al (1999) and Riezebos et al (2003) below.…”

Section: Empirical Research (2000-2009)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Three decades of workload control research: a systematic review of the literature

Thürer

Stevenson

Silva

2011

International Journal of Production Research

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The workload control (WLC) concept has received much attention in the past three decades; however, a comprehensive literature review has not been presented. In response, this article provides a systematic review of the conceptual, analytical, empirical and simulation-based WLC literature. It explores the evolution of WLC research, determines the current state-of-the-art and identifies key areas for further study. The research finds that the field has evolved substantially. Early research focused on theoretical development and experimental testing of order release strategies; order release was then integrated with other planning stages, e.g., the customer enquiry stage, making the concept more suitable for customised manufacturing and leading to a comprehensive concept which combines input and output control effectively; recent attention has focused on implementing the resulting concept in practice and refining theory. While WLC is well placed to meet the needs of producers of customised products, future research should include: conducting further action research into how WLC can be effectively implemented in practice; studying human factors that affect WLC; and feeding back empirical findings to simulation-based WLC research to improve the applicability of WLC theory to real-life job shops.

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Section: Analytical Research: Future Research Directionsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Empirical Research (2000-2009)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Three decades of workload control research: a systematic review of the literature

Thürer

Stevenson

Silva

2011

International Journal of Production Research

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“…Among a limited number of WLC empirical studies reported in the literature, the main focus in the 1980s and 1990s was to demonstrate the performance of the concept in practice (see, for example, Bechte 1988 and1994;Wiendahl 1995;and Park et al 1999). The attention has shifted to organisational embedding of the concept since the 2000s due to limited successful cases in the last two decades (see, for example, Hendry et al 2008;Huang, Stevenson, and Hendry 2008;.…”

Section: Wlc Implementation Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information architecture for effective Workload Control: an insight from a successful implementation

Huang

2017

Production Planning & Control

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The implementation of Workload Control (WLC), a Production Planning and Control concept uniquely designed for Make-To-Order companies, has been a constant challenge. Scholars argued that WLC is largely developed through simulations of well-defined environments while much more complex circumstances (e.g., information availability) have emerged in field research. A recent trend of WLC research is to improve the practical applicability of the concept, where empirical evidence is essential. However, success in WLC implementation remains impeded. The availability of data has been a significant area that frustrates the implementation process. While there is a tendency to simplify data requirements in recent WLC theory development, it is important to understand and maintain the information that is essential for the concept to be effective. For the first time in the field, this paper details the information architecture for WLC. Key informational entities of relevance to the input/output control functions in WLC as well as performance measurement are discussed based on evidence from a successful implementation. The paper not only sheds light for practitioners on how to construct an information system that facilitates successful WLC implementation but also has implications for future development of WLC mechanisms coping with information uncertainties in practice.

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“…However, although the method was shown to work in a job shop, products appear standardized, reducing the complexity of planning and control. Park et al (1999) present a second bottleneck-oriented case study, developing a WLC-based DSS to aid DD determinations for a large rotating machinery shop. The DSS monitors the workload of the bottleneck operation in line with the principles of the Theory of Constraints (TOC).…”

Section: General Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite the WLC concept receiving much attention in the literature, only a handful of case studies have emerged (Bertrand and Wortmann 1981, Fry and Smith 1987, Bechte 1988, 1994, Wiendahl 1995, Park et al 1999. Although all of the aforementioned simulation studies explore practical issues, and are thus directly geared towards the application of WLC in practice, further empirical research is considered vital to the validation of simulation results (see Van Ooijen 2002, Kingsman andHendry 2002).…”

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Refining a Workload Control (WLC) concept: a case study

Stevenson

2006

International Journal of Production Research

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The paper focuses on refining a Workload Control (WLC) concept to improve the applicability of the approach to the shop characteristics found in practice. This is a two-stage process leading to significant conceptual refinements to a key WLC methodology. The first stage focuses on the development of a Decision Support System (DSS) based on a WLC concept designed for Make-To-Order (MTO) companies. Refinements made include changes to the backwards scheduling procedure and the way in which jobs are released onto the shop floor. The second stage focuses on the process of implementation. Using a case study of a MTO company, the paper describes the strategy taken to overcome a number of prerequisites to the successful implementation of a Production Planning and Control (PPC) concept. Issues addressed include grouping machines and determining capacities. This case study adds to the available literature by looking specifically at implementing WLC from the customer enquiry stage, while the case study experience also provides further refinements to the WLC concept.

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Delivery date decision support system for the large scale make-to-order manufacturing companies: A Korean electric motor company case

Cited by 28 publications

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Three decades of workload control research: a systematic review of the literature

Three decades of workload control research: a systematic review of the literature

Information architecture for effective Workload Control: an insight from a successful implementation

Refining a Workload Control (WLC) concept: a case study

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