Order review and release in make-to-order flow shops: analysis and design of new methods

Abstract

Order review and release in make-to-order flow shops: analysis and design of new methods. Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 33(3), 750-782.

Labor flexibility integration in workload control in Industry 4.0 era

“…WLC is a PPC mechanism specifically developed for a highvariety, low-volume context. The concept has been shown to significantly improve production system performance through simulation (Kundu et al 2020(Kundu et al , 2018Portioli-Staudacher et al 2020) and, on occasion, in practice.…”

“…While I/C has received much attention in the WLC literature (Fredendall et al 2010;Land et al 2015;Melnyk and Ragatz 1989;Philipoom et al 1993;Sabuncuoglu and Karapinar 1999;Kundu et al 2020;Thürer et al 2015), the effective realization of O/C has been largely neglected (Thürer et al 2016a, b). Only recently has more research emerged that uses WLC theory to guide O/C decisionsin particular, regarding when to increase capacity (Land et al 2015;Thürer et al 2014Thürer et al , 2015.…”

“…We have kept our flow shop relatively small since this allows causal factors to be identified more easily. The shop is a line composed of 5 stations, as in previous studies (Kundu et al 2018(Kundu et al , 2020Portioli-Staudacher et al 2020;Costa et al 2019). There is one worker per station, so the shop is fully staffed, and no dual resource constraint exists.…”

“…To cope with this challenge, production planning and control (PPC) mechanisms (Małachowski and Korytkowski 2016;Reuter and Brambring 2016) play a fundamental role since PPC is intended to ensure a company's profitability by delivering goods to customers on time and in the right quantities. Workload control (WLC) is a consolidated PPC mechanism that was developed for high-variety, low-volume contexts, such as small-and medium-sized make-to-order (MTO) companies (Kundu et al 2020;Stevenson et al 2005), and it has been demonstrated to provide good margins of improvements (Kundu et al 2020(Kundu et al , 2018Portioli-Staudacher et al 2020). In addition to PPC, to cope with variability and uncertainties-for example, of demand-companies adopt different buffering strategies, such as inventory or capacity buffers (i.e., excess capacity).…”

Performance Assessment of Dynamic Flexible Assembly Job Shop Control Methods

“…Shop floor control (SFC) is a hierarchical production control technique, it integrates a centralized controlled release with distributed sequencing decision in front of workstations [15][16][17][18]. Controlled release is acknowledged as a powerful control instrument in the framework of shop floor control [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. The release of new arriving jobs is regulated to stabilize the throughput time on the shop floor, unprioritized jobs are kept in a pre-shop pool, in turn the shop floor is shielded from external disturbances.…”