Supervisory factory control based on real-time production feedback

Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 653-660

  Chang, Qing ^a   Ni, Jun ^b   Bandyopadhyay, Pulak ^a   Biller, Stephan ^a   Xiao, Guoxian ^a  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottleneck analysis; Bottleneck inertia; Real time production control; Through put simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; PLANT MANAGEMENT; RELIABILITY; THROUGHPUT;

BOTTLENECK ANALYSIS; BOTTLENECK INERTIA; THROUGH-PUT SIMULATION; VARIABILITY;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547396533     PISSN: 10871357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2673666     Document Type: Article

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