Developing a Computerized Scheduling System for the Steelmaking–Continuous Casting Process

Missbauer, Hubert; Hauber, Wolfgang; Stadler, Werner

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-8191-2_18

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“…The high number of orders (several thousands of orders simultaneously in the manufacturing system on average) allows working with planned WIP levels and release quantities that are substituted by specific work orders in the order release run. Given this hierarchical structure, WLC is often superior with respect to control of WIP and flow time as worked out in the WLC theory cited above (see Missbauer, Hauber, and Stadler [2011] for an analogous reasoning in favour of a centralised scheduling solution in the steel making industrywhere the characteristics are entirely different). Note that we analyse the fit of WLC to the company under study in Section 4.1.…”

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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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