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Production Release Control: Paced, WIP-Based or Demand-Driven? Revisiting the Push/Pull and Make-to-Order/Make-to-Stock Distinctions

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The last 2 decades have seen a surge in the literature related to pull control, kanban-type control, WIP control, and more generally token-based production control systems. Not only have many generalizations, extensions, and variants of the original kanban system been introduced, analyzed, and compared (e.g., generalized kanban control system (GKCS), CONstant WIP (CONWIP), production authorization card (PAC), paired-cell overlapping loops of cards with authorization (POLCA), extended kanban control system (EKCS), customized token-based system (CTBS), heijunka kanban, among others).

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The work in this chapter was supported by grant MIS 379526 “Odysseus: A holistic approach for managing variability in contemporary global supply chain networks,” which was co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund - ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) - Research Funding Program: THALES: Reinforcement of the interdisciplinary and/or inter-institutional research and innovation.

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Liberopoulos, G. (2013). Production Release Control: Paced, WIP-Based or Demand-Driven? Revisiting the Push/Pull and Make-to-Order/Make-to-Stock Distinctions. In: Smith, J., Tan, B. (eds) Handbook of Stochastic Models and Analysis of Manufacturing System Operations. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 192. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6777-9_7

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