Kanban-Controlled Manufacturing Systems

✍ Scribed by Dr. Georg N. Krieg (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 549
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

5th Werner Kern Award for Productivity Research 2005

Kanban control systems bear a great potential to significantly improve operations. A company may reap the full benefits of kanban control only after determining an optimal or near-optimal system configuration. To do that, methods are needed to evaluate the performance and operating costs of individual system configurations. We propose an innovative construction-kit approach that enables us to build stochastic analytical models of a large class of single- and multi-product kanban systems. The presented construction-kit approach may be extended and augmented in various directions.

✦ Table of Contents

Subject and Outline....Pages 1-2
Kanban-Controlled Manufacturing Systems: Basic Version and Variations....Pages 3-12
Literature Review: Models of Kanban Systems....Pages 13-26
New Models of Kanban Systems: A Construction-Kit Approach....Pages 27-36
Components: Basic Building Blocks....Pages 37-64
Subassemblies: Models of Multi-Product Manufacturing Facilities....Pages 65-79
Composite Models: Models of Multi-Stage Kanban Systems....Pages 81-88
Extended Application: Models of Systems with Multi-Product Manufacturing Facilities in Series....Pages 89-93
Accuracy of the Models: Numerical Results....Pages 95-173
Application of the Models: Analysis of System Behavior....Pages 175-208
Summary and Directions for Future Research....Pages 209-210

✦ Subjects

Production/Logistics; Operations Research/Decision Theory