CONWIP-based production lines with multiple bottlenecks: Performance and design implications

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 99-111

  Dar El, E M ^a   Herer, Y T ^b   Masin, M ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; INVENTORY CONTROL; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

CONCEPTUAL BOTTLENECK MACHINE THEORY;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0032628093     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007587716586     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Hopp, W.J., Spearman, M.L. and Duenyas, I. (1993) Economic production quotas for pull manufacturing systems. HE Transactions, 25, 71-79.
2. Hendricks, K. and McCIain, J. (1993) The output processes of serial production lines of general machines with finite buffers. Management Science, 39, 1194-1201.
3. Miltenburg, G.J. (1987) Variance of the number of units produced on a transfer line with buffer inventories during a period of length T. Naval Research Logistics, 34, 811-822.
4. Hendricks, K. (1991) The output processes of simple serial production lines. Working Paper, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332.
5. Hendricks, K. (1992) The output processes of serial production lines of exponential machines with finite buffers. Operations Research, 40, 1139-1147.
6. Duenyas, I. and Hopp, W.J. (1990) Estimating variance of output from cyclic exponential queuing systems. Queuing Systems, 7, 337-354.
7. Duenyas, L, Hopp, W.J. and Spearman, M.L. (1993) Characterizing the output process of a CONWIP line with deterministic processing and random outages. Management Science, 39, 975988.
8. Hopp, W.J. and Spearman, M.L. (1991) Throughput of a constant work in process manufacturing line subject to failures. International Journal of Production Research, 29, 635-655.
9. Duenyas, I. and Hopp, W.J. (1992) CONWIP assembly with deterministic processing and random outages. HE Transactions, 24, 97-109 .
10. Spearman, M.L., Woodruff, D.L. and Hopp, W.J. (1990) CONWIP: a pull alternative to kanban. International Journal of Production Research, 28, 879-894.
11. Spearman, M.L. and Zazanis, M.A. (1992) Push and pull production systems: issues and comparisons. Operations Research, 40, 521-532.
12. Tayur, S. (1992) Properties of serial kanban systems. Queuing Systems, 12, 297-318.
13. Tayur, S. (1993) Structural properties and a heuristic for kanban controlled serial lines. Management Science, 39, 1347-1368.
14. Muckstadt, J. and Tayur, S. (1995) A comparison of alternative kanban control mechanisms part 1. HE Transactions, 27,140150.
15. Reiser, M. and Lavenberg, S. (1980) Mean-value analysis of closed multichain queuing networks. Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, 27, 313-322.
16. Little, J. (1961) A proof of the queuing formula L = ).W. Operations Research, 9, 383-387.
17. Burbidge, J. (1990) Production control: a universal conceptual framework. Production Planning and Control, 1, 3-16.
18. Kanet, J. (1988) MRP 96: time to rethink manufacturing logics. Production and Inventory Management Journal, 29, 57-61.