...Ben Clegg, Jillian MacBryde and Prasanta Dey; Torbjørn H. Netland; Arild Aspelund Purpose – In order to improve competitiveness on a global scale, multinational enterprises increasingly develop a company-specific production system (XPS) and deploy it in their worldwide operations. An XPS...

... Just‐in‐time Kanban Ordering systems Production systems Nowadays, it is popular for the production system to have multiple stages of production processes and inventory points. In the multi‐stage production inventory system, production processes connect serially and inventory points...

... to the system. The traditionally balanced line did not perform best under any of the conditions used in this study. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Assembly line balancing Just‐in‐time Production management Production systems Theory of constraints Despite the great deal of research conducted...

... for work is (1 ‐ ρ), the cost implication per unit time for an individual machine can be defined as: © MCB UP Limited 1996 Cost variance Modelling Multimodel lines Operational research Optimization Production systems Scheduling Traditional plant layout is based on functional...

... and innovative way – a throughput approach – to prioritize set‐up reduction procedures in a multi‐machine production system. The TOC philosophy is an outgrowth of the development and extension by Goldratt of the original concept of optimized production technology(OPT). Goldratt and Cox′s book The Goal...

... for organisational learning, development of production know‐how and the establishment of process control that leads logically to full‐scale automation of the production system. It also proposes a continuum of industrial progress, with basic production system rationalisation and housekeeping at one end and fullscale...

...K. Chaharbaghi One of the most challenging problems facing industrial engineers concerns the design and operational planning of today′s sophisticated production systems. The need for a detailed quantitative analysis is far more apparent than ever before. The application of discrete‐event simulation...

...Gyu Chan Kim; Sang M. Lee This article examines the impact of introducing computer technology in just‐in‐time (JIT) systems. Literature review has generally supported the notion that introducing computers within JIT production systems may enhance productivity. Also, the productivity of a computer...

... impact on operating conditions and, through them, on performance at production system level are analysed. A paradigm of JIT approach results, which explains the changes in the traditional trade‐offs within overall performance. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Production Systems Design Production...

... demand equal recognition. The production of a high volume single item has given way to that of low volume multiple items, which in turn requires some modification of production systems and brings flexible manufacturing,Just‐in‐Time production and total quality control into sharper focus...

...L.C. Lee Little work has so far been done to investigate the relative merits of push and pull production systems when subjected to a common set of conditions. The present study examines the behaviour of the two systems under various load (demand) conditions using computer simulation. The JIT pull...

...S.K. Goyal; S. Singhal A corrected attempt to determine the size of in‐process inventory and the manufacturing lead time for an n‐stage production system is made. This corrects the earlier model developed by Ornek and Collier by accurately deriving the model for determining the manufacturing cycle...