...Chwen Sheu; John G. Wacker Manufacturing managers as well as researchers suggest that reducing manufacturing lead time is essential for competing in world‐class manufacturing environments. To achieve world‐class manufacturing status, organizations implement a variety of programmes to decrease...

... manufacturing systems Manufacturing lead times Product oriented production It is inevitable that, in a dynamic marketplace, individual products will frequently migrate from one group to another during their life times. There is therefore a need to routinely review the groupings; a point...

... inventory levels whilst ensuring that all jobs are released in time to be delivered by their promised delivery dates. An approach which uses input/output control is proposed to achieve these objectives. The major advance of the proposed approach is its ability to control the total manufacturing lead times...