{"title":"A line management policy for a multi-product assembly line","authors":"W. Chow","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.1990.201280","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A production schedule is derived from product demand, finished goods inventory, line/tooling capacity, and material supply (i.e. parts' and components' availability), by solution of a linear programming model to minimize the sum of inventory/backlog, subject to a set of resource constraints, over a predetermined planning horizon. For a given production schedule, a real-time dispatcher is invoked to select the right product type for assembly by looking at the overall line performance behavior. Information about line performance is collected by a line monitor. A product type has a high (low) dispatching priority if its actual output rate is less (greater) than its scheduled production rate. Selection of a product type is based on its priority and its level of work-in-process. Also implemented is a flow control policy which consists of job assignment, in-process storage sizing, detection of yield problems, and a parts feeding scheme.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":235761,"journal":{"name":"IEEE International Conference on Engineering Management, Gaining the Competitive Advantage","volume":"3 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1990-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE International Conference on Engineering Management, Gaining the Competitive Advantage","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.1990.201280","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A production schedule is derived from product demand, finished goods inventory, line/tooling capacity, and material supply (i.e. parts' and components' availability), by solution of a linear programming model to minimize the sum of inventory/backlog, subject to a set of resource constraints, over a predetermined planning horizon. For a given production schedule, a real-time dispatcher is invoked to select the right product type for assembly by looking at the overall line performance behavior. Information about line performance is collected by a line monitor. A product type has a high (low) dispatching priority if its actual output rate is less (greater) than its scheduled production rate. Selection of a product type is based on its priority and its level of work-in-process. Also implemented is a flow control policy which consists of job assignment, in-process storage sizing, detection of yield problems, and a parts feeding scheme.<>