Shop floor dispatching with variable urgent operations based on Workload Control: An assessment by simulation
Mingze Yuan,
Lin Ma,
Ting Qu
et al.
Abstract:Meeting customer time requirements poses a major challenge in the context of high‐variety make‐to‐order companies. Companies need to reduce the lead time and process urgent jobs in time, while realising high delivery reliability. The key decision stages within Workload Control (WLC) are order release and shop floor dispatching. To the best of our knowledge, recent research has mainly focused on order release stage and inadvertently ignored shop floor dispatching stage. Meanwhile, urgency of job is not only rel… Show more
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