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A New Method to Control Work-in-Process Inventory for High Manufacturing Productivity

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A new method for controlling the WIP inventory is proposed in order to restrict the excessive production of un- finished products, while the manufacturing productivity is kept at a certain high value. Excessive WIPs decrease business profits and prevent the realization of agile manufacturing along with changes in markets, while insufficient number of WIPs reduce manufacturing productivity and flexibility to cope with malfunctions of production resources. Theoretical formulations of a scheduling problem without buffer is derived, and heuristic procedure is adopted to plan a feasible schedule. The proposed control methods are verified by computational simulations regarding job-shop type production system.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Rei Hino, Norikazu Suzuki & Eiji Shamoto

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  1. Rei Hino
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  1. Department of Engineering Synthesis, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

    Mamoru Mitsuishi (Dr. Eng.) (Dr. Eng.)

  2. Research into Artifacts Center for Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, 277-8568, Japan

    Kanji Ueda (Dr. Eng.) (Dr. Eng.)

  3. Department of Precision Machinery Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

    Fumihiko Kimura (Dr. Eng.) (Dr. Eng.)

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Hino, R., Suzuki, N., Shamoto, E. (2008). A New Method to Control Work-in-Process Inventory for High Manufacturing Productivity. In: Mitsuishi, M., Ueda, K., Kimura, F. (eds) Manufacturing Systems and Technologies for the New Frontier. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-267-8_45

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