SIMULATION OF AN ACTUAL PRODUCTION SCHEDULING AND WORK FLOW CONTROL SYSTEM
- 1 January 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Production Research
- Vol. 1 (4) , 21-41
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00207546108943095
Abstract
This paper is a progress report on a study of an actual decision-making system. It scrutinizes the demands made on a manufacturing organization and the responses of the organization to these demands The study focuses on the ways the organization got a particular job done, namely the job of production scheduling and work-flow smoothing in the box-making plants of a manufacturer of shipping containers. The complete system can be factored into two parts. One sub-system places orders in sequence and prepares an advance production schedule. The second subsystem controls the flow of work through the actual manufacturing operations, making final adjustments in the sequence and speed of the work-flow.Keywords
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