Just-In-Time (JIT), with Kanban, manufacturing system simulation on a microcomputer

Abstract

A simulation model of a Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing system using a two-card and a one-card Kanban inventory control system has been developed using the SIMAN simulation language on the IBM microcomputer. The manufacturing system consists of an assembly line with two assembly cells, one manufacturing cell, and one incoming receiving cell.

Lean in the Public Sector : Possibilities and Limitations

“…Earlier on, research about TPS consisted of descriptions on specific tools and techniques, such as Just-in-Time (JIT) and Kanban (Monden, 1983;Schonberger, 1982;Schroer et al, 1985;Sugimori et al, 1977), Jidoka (Monden, 1983;Ohno, 1988;Pegels, 1984;Sugimori et al, 1977), and Single-Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) (Shingo and Dillon, 1989), but none of them considered the whole management system at Toyota (Holweg, 2007). Therefore, Womack et al (1990) set a starting point for viewing Lean as a concept, and the research has continued to develop the knowledge of the principles and practices behind Toyota's success.…”

Maintenance policies in just-in-time manufacturing lines

“…Kimura and Terada (1981) showed that, compared with a 'push' system, a 'pull' production line reduces the amplification of production and inventory fluctuations when order quantity and lead times ani small. Schroer et al (1985) developed a microcomputer simulation model of a manufacturing system, composed of an assembly line, two assembly cells, one manufacturing cell and one incoming receiving cell. The main objectives were to balance the system in terms of resources and queues and to minimize in-process inventory at the various stock points.…”

A unified modeling of Kanban systems using petri nets

“…We have used the Petri net modeling on other Kanban systems encountered in the literature, and most of the Petri net models we obtained were very similar to the basic one. That is the case with the models of Huang, Rees, and Taylor (1983) ;Schroer, Black, and Zhang (1985); Bitran and Chang (1987); Lulu and Black (1987); and Suri and de Treville (1987). Some authors considered Kanban systems that have a rather different behavior than those we have just seen.…”

“…Recently, much work has been devoted to this problem. Authors often use simulation models to evaluate the performance (see, for example, Huang et al, 1983;Schroer et al, 1985;Lulu and Black, 1987). Some analytical methods have also been developed.…”