Engineering Production Control Strategies: A Guide To Tailor Strategies That Unite The Merits Of Push And Pull (management For Professionals)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-5 Production Control Strategies (PCS)....Pages 7-36 A Queuing Network Based Framework for PCS Engineering....Pages 37-57 Numerical Optimization of Control Parameters Along a PCS Engineering Process....Pages 59-83 Investigation of the Push/Pull Integration....Pages 85-102 Case Study from the Electronics Manufacturing Industry....Pages 103-115 Conclusion and Further Research....Pages 117-120 Appendix....Pages 121-170 Back Matter....Pages 171-176