Identifying and customizing suitable control strategies is a challenging task, especially when production systems have to cope with variable demands, forecast error, and unstable processes. The focus of this book lies on helping companies with complex and discrete production systems to tailor a production control strategy to their needs. Thereby, the mutual merits of "push" and "pull" systems are taken into account, leading to hybrid strategies. Consequently, the book addresses practitioners who are interested in looking behind the scenes and into the physics of production control. A real-life case study demonstrates the practical applicability of the presented framework.

Inhalt

1 Introduction. - 2 Production control strategies (PCS). - 3 A queuing network based framework for PCS engineering. - 4 Numerical optimization of control parameters along a PCS engineering Process. - 5 Investigation of the Push/Pull integration. - 6 Case study from the electronics manufacturing industry. - 7 Conclusion and further research. References. Appendix.