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Industry 4.0 promises sustainable and more efficient manufacturing through new digital technologies. However, existing methodologies like Lean Manufacturing have been tested and proven, and could benefit greatly from increased digitalisation. In this paper, we claim that the enhancement of existing Lean and related methodologies with digital technology is a necessary step to fulfil Industry 4.0’s promise. To demonstrate this claim, we introduce a framework for integrating raw material and finished product inventories and production scheduling. We validate the framework by developing a proof-of-concept system that combines constraint programming (CP) and inventory management to address a combined reactive scheduling and inventory management problem. The production model we use is a Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (RCPSP) with three finished products and four raw materials, and the two-bin or (s, Q) inventory policy. The system enables coordination of raw material, finished product and work-in-progress inventories through optimal scheduling (minimal makespan). The results inform operators of expected stock-outs and consumption and production rates, while allowing for modifications in case of disruption.
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https://www.minizinc.org/software.html, accessed on 23 February 2021.
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http://cran.r-project.org/, accessed on 23 February 2021.
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Suhartanto, J.F., García-Flores, R., Schutt, A. (2022). An Integrated Framework for Reactive Production Scheduling and Inventory Management. In: Scholz, S.G., Howlett, R.J., Setchi, R. (eds) Sustainable Design and Manufacturing. KES-SDM 2021. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 262. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6128-0_31
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