Lean in High-Mix/Low-Volume industry: a systematic literature review

I Tomašević, D Stojanović, D Slović… - … Planning & Control, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this paper is to explore current state-of-the-art on lean in High-Mix/Low-Volume
(HMLV) industry. For this purpose, authors propose a systematic literature review of 110 …

Card-based production control: a review of the control mechanisms underpinning Kanban, ConWIP, POLCA and COBACABANA systems

M Thürer, M Stevenson… - Production Planning & …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Since the emergence of Kanban, there has been much research into card-based control
systems. This has included attempts to improve Kanban and/or develop alternative systems …

A new method for autonomous control of complex job shops–Integrating order release, sequencing and capacity control to meet due dates

S Grundstein, M Freitag, B Scholz-Reiter - Journal of manufacturing …, 2017 - Elsevier
Due to the development of Cyber-Physical Production Systems, autonomous control of
manufacturing processes is of increasing significance. Particularly, these manufacturing …

Drum-buffer-rope and workload control in High-variety flow and job shops with bottlenecks: An assessment by simulation

M Thürer, M Stevenson, C Silva, T Qu - International Journal of Production …, 2017 - Elsevier
Two key concepts in the production planning and control literature that incorporate an order
release function are the Theory of Constraints, with its drum-buffer-rope release method, and …

Lean control for make‐to‐order companies: Integrating customer enquiry management and order release

M Thürer, M Stevenson, C Silva… - Production and …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
A lead time that is short, predictable, and reliable is an increasingly important criterion in
supplier selection. Although many companies may achieve this through lean …

[HTML][HTML] Non-hierarchical work-in-progress control in manufacturing

TAA Kasper, MJ Land, RH Teunter - International Journal of Production …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Reducing Work-In-Process (WIP) in manufacturing systems is associated with
advantages such as predictable throughput times and increased manageability. To achieve …

Comparison between rule-and optimization-based workload control concepts: a simulation optimization approach

S Haeussler, P Netzer - International Journal of Production …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
An important goal of Production Planning and Control systems is to achieve short and
predictable flow times, especially where high flexibility in meeting customer demand is …

Job shop control: In search of the key to delivery improvements

MJ Land, M Stevenson, M Thürer… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
The last major performance breakthroughs in job shop control stem from the 1980s and
1990s. We generate a new search direction for designing job shop control policies …

Concerning workload control and order release: The pre‐shop pool sequencing decision

M Thürer, MJ Land, M Stevenson… - Production and …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Every production planning concept that incorporates controlled order release will initially
withhold jobs from the shop floor and create a pre‐shop pool. Order release is a key …

Better Together or Divided Forever—Integrated or Hierarchical Material and Workload Control

A Kasper, S Haeussler, M Land… - Production and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
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products is the cornerstone of many competitive manufacturing strategies. The challenge for …