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Production Control Systems

A Guide to Enhance Performance of Pull Systems

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Authors:
  1. Yacob Khojasteh

    1. Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Chiyoda-ku, Japan

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  • Covers pull production control systems and provide comparisons among them
  • Presents modeling and analysis tools for pull control systems
  • Provides a guideline for production managers and practitioners to choose the best control system

Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-6

  3. Production Systems

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    Pages 7-24

  4. Unified View of Pull Production Systems

    • Yacob Khojasteh
    Pages 25-30

  5. A Framework for Production Control Systems

    • Yacob Khojasteh
    Pages 31-35

  6. Analysis of Control Systems in Serial Production Lines

    • Yacob Khojasteh
    Pages 37-61

  7. Analysis of Control Systems in Assembly Production Processes

    • Yacob Khojasteh
    Pages 63-98

  8. Conclusions and Future Research

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    Pages 99-101

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 103-105
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About this book

Selecting a suitable production control policy is a challenging task for managers because the superiority of one control over the other is controversial. This book analyzes pull production systems and provides a guideline to choose and implement a proper control policy in production processes. By employing a proper control policy the maximum possible throughput of the production system can be achieved with the minimum work-in-process inventory. Kanban, CONWIP, and base-stock as wellknown pull control policies are analyzed and analytical comparisons among them in multistage serial and assembly production processes are presented. Illustrated by carefully chosen examples and supported by analytical solutions, discussions provided 
in the book clarify the complexity of the comparisons that show there is no general superiority among the control systems. Th e book explains which structural parameters decide the superiority of one control scheme to the others, and how they are related. Given a confi guration of parameters, such as processing times and number of cards employed in the system, the superior control policy can be selected.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Chiyoda-ku, Japan

    Yacob Khojasteh

About the author

Dr. Yacob Khojasteh is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Global Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He also received his M.Sc. in policy and planning sciences, and in industrial engineering from the University of Tsukuba, and Tarbiat Modares University, respectively. He has over six years of professional experience in industry and consulting. His research interests include production and operations management, supply chain management, logistics and warehousing, systems modeling and optimization, and lean production systems.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Production Control Systems

  • Book Subtitle: A Guide to Enhance Performance of Pull Systems

  • Authors: Yacob Khojasteh

  • Series Title: Management for Professionals

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55197-3

  • Publisher: Springer Tokyo

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55196-6Published: 03 September 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56275-7Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55197-3Published: 21 August 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2192-8096

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 105

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Industrial Organization, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Management

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