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The basic idea behind a hybrid Kanban/CONWIP control is to combine the decentralized WIP control from Kanban with the centralized WIP control from CONWIP. This method for controlling production was developed and evaluated in simulation studies by Bonvik, Couch and Gershwin [Bonv-97*]. In simulation studies with comparable WIP levels the method achieved a noticeably higher output rate than Kanban and a slightly higher output rate than CONWIP.
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This is a result of the author’s explanation that the method can be understood as a variation of Kanban in that the finished goods store’s Kanban is directed not to the last, but to the first workstation in the production.
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The authors of this method do not address the problem of sequencing since a production with only one variant is a condition of their discussion.
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Lödding, H. (2013). Hybrid Kanban/CONWIP Control. In: Handbook of Manufacturing Control. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24458-2_12
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