Engineering Production Control Strategies - A Guide to Tailor Strategies that Unite the Merits of Push and Pull

Identifying and customizing suitable control strategies is a challenging task, especially when production systems have to cope with variable demands, forecast error, and unstable processes. The focus of this book lies on helping companies with complex and discrete production systems to tailor a production control strategy to their needs. Thereby, the mutual merits of "push" and "pull" systems are taken into account, leading to hybrid strategies. Consequently, the book addresses practitioners who are interested in looking behind the scenes and into the physics of production control. A real-life case study demonstrates the practical applicability of the presented framework.

List of contents

1 Introduction. - 2 Production control strategies (PCS). - 3 A queuing network based framework for PCS engineering. - 4 Numerical optimization of control parameters along a PCS engineering Process. - 5 Investigation of the Push/Pull integration. - 6 Case study from the electronics manufacturing industry. - 7 Conclusion and further research. - References. - Appendix.

Summary

Identifying and customizing suitable control strategies is a challenging task, especially when production systems have to cope with variable demands, forecast error, and unstable processes. The focus of this book lies on helping companies with complex and discrete production systems to tailor a production control strategy to their needs. Thereby, the mutual merits of “push” and “pull” systems are taken into account, leading to hybrid strategies. Consequently, the book addresses practitioners who are interested in looking behind the scenes and into the physics of production control. A real-life case study demonstrates the practical applicability of the presented framework.

Product details

• Authors: Christoph Karrer
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2014
• EAN: 9783642445552
• ISBN: 978-3-642-44555-2
• No. of pages: 178
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Illustrations: X, 178 p.
• Series: Management for Professionals; Management for Professionals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Operations Research, B, Economics, Business and Management, Production, Operations Management, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research and Decision Theory, Management decision making, Management science, Management of specific areas, Operational research, Decision Making, Production management