A comparison of production control systems in a flexible flow shop

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, C.
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Reis, V., Morais, A., Brilenkov, I., Vaz, J., Pinheiro, T., Neves, M., Henriques, M., Varela, L., Pereira, G., Fernandes, N.O.G., Silva, S. Carmo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/6304
• topic: Production control; make-to-order; kanban systems; simulation

Production control in make-to-order must address the companies’ need for short delivery times and on-time deliveries. Several production control systems may be used to meet these needs. This paper presents a simulation study to evaluate the delivery performance of the TKS, GKS and POLCA production control systems, in the context of a make-to-order flexible flow shop. Since TKS is used for make-to-stock manufacturing, an adaptation of it is made to use in make-to-order. Results of a simulation study show that the adapted TKS outperforms POLCA, but performs worse than GKS. The study is a contribution for the alignment of production control theory to the industrial practice.