Pull flow management with a digitized synchronous sequencer in the aeronautical industry: The unprecedented case of JPR hutchinson

Abstract

This article aims at studying the unprecedented case of physical and informational production flow management in the field of aeronautics. Given volumetry issues and the diversity associated with a large number of references, flow management efficiency remains one of the major problems for that industry. In this paper, our goal consists in analyzing the functioning of a pull flow management system controlled by a digitized synchronous sequencer. As a case study, we intend to focus on the specific case of JPR Hutchinson Company. The latter — which belongs to Total — offers, with its digitized synchronous sequencer, new perspectives in the optimization of flow management. Our analysis will show how the digitized synchronous sequencer helps the company's logisticians to combine the processing in real time of informational flows and the control of physical ones, throughout the production line from the supply of material to the collection of finished products.