A lean-based ORR system for non-repetitive manufacturing

Staudacher, Alberto Portioli; Tantardini, Marco

doi:10.1080/00207543.2011.564664

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“…HV/LV manufacturing environments include one-of-a-kind as well as small batch manufacturing environments. Manufacturing is usually make-to-order or engineer-to-order, and is normally performed in job shops [5]. A main challenge for lean implementation in HV/LV is that they are experiencing more variability [6].…”

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“…The turbulence in HV/LV manufacturing will vary from medium to high levels. Many HV/LV manufacturers have a dominant flow in their job shops [5], and might experience less turbulence compared to the most volatile cases. Most HV/LV manufacturing systems do not only include jobbing, but also batch and flow manufacturing processes for components with higher volumes [7].…”

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A Framework for Lean Flow in Turbulent High-Variety Low-Volume Manufacturing Environments

Alfnes

Thomassen

Gran

2016

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Section: Hv/lv and Turbulencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Hv/lv and Turbulencementioning

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A Framework for Lean Flow in Turbulent High-Variety Low-Volume Manufacturing Environments

Alfnes

Thomassen

Gran

2016

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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“…Limiting is recognised by practitioners and academics as the seminal order release method for workload implementation (see Bechte, 1988), and it has been proven to lead to significant performance improvement (Land & Gaalman, 1998). The limiting method used in this research is adopted from the articles by Cigolini and Portioli-Staudacher (2002) and Portioli-Staudacher and Tantardini (2012).…”

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“…The balancing release method is used because it is a new ORR method that has been shown to give significantly better performance than limiting in flow shops (Portioli-Staudacher & Tantardini, 2012). It uses a periodic release procedure, executed at fixed intervals, to control and balance the shop floor workload.…”

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Analysing the impact of uncertainty reduction on WLC methods in MTO flow shops

Kundu

Rossini

Staudacher

2018

Production & Manufacturing Research

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With more and more demanding customers, make-to-order (MTO) companies are becoming more important. Workload control (WLC) is specifically developed for MTO companies. Most previous studies have proposed solutions assuming no mismatch between planned and actual production time. However, in real situations, inaccurate estimation of processing time is a daily routine. This study focuses on processing time estimation error and evaluates performance of two different WLC order review and release (ORR) methods through simulation of a pure flow shop. Simulation results demonstrate that balancing workload is more effective than limiting workload at different error levels. However, with decrease in errors, difference in performance between limiting and balancing methods becomes wider. Further investigation shows that improving processing time estimation heavily affects the order selection process in balancing method, which is the main reason for performance improvement. Finally, aspects of Industry 4.0 are discussed in context of ORR methods in MTO flow shops.

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“…Due to the lack of implementation studies of order release mechanisms with an extended schedule visibility (e.g. BaLanced Release (BLR) by Portioli-Staudacher and Tantardini [2012] or optimisation-based order release models of Asmundsson et al [2009]) we chose to use a limited schedule visibility. Note that during the implementation project we added a feature in our visual decision support tool (WLC cockpit) that addresses this issue (see Section 5.1).…”

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Successful implementation of an order release mechanism based on workload control: a case study of a make-to-stock manufacturer

Hütter¹,

Haeussler

Missbauer

2017

International Journal of Production Research

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This paper deals with improving the lead-time performance of a large crystal manufacturer that uses a state-of-the-art commercial Enterprise Resource Planning system. Since the company encountered some limitations of the standard production planning and control (PPC) system it sought for improvements by implementing an order release mechanism based on workload control (WLC). WLC employs certain rules for releasing orders in order to maintain a certain level of work in process to achieve a certain utilisation of the production system and thus control the flow times in order to meet the required due dates of the orders. We describe the successful implementation of an order release mechanism based on the WLC concept in this make-to-stock company. The paper describes the implemented order release mechanism, the implementation process and its impact on the company's performance. We show that the core function of WLCthe order release mechanismcan be integrated successfully into an existing PPC system. Furthermore, this study highlights the applicability of WLC to a wider range of companies, especially to make-to-stock manufacturers.

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A lean-based ORR system for non-repetitive manufacturing

Cited by 52 publications

References 40 publications

A Framework for Lean Flow in Turbulent High-Variety Low-Volume Manufacturing Environments

A Framework for Lean Flow in Turbulent High-Variety Low-Volume Manufacturing Environments

Analysing the impact of uncertainty reduction on WLC methods in MTO flow shops

Successful implementation of an order release mechanism based on workload control: a case study of a make-to-stock manufacturer

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