An Analytical Method for Performance Evaluation of Kanban Controlled Production Systems

Maria Di Mascolo, Yannick Frein and Yves Dallery
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Maria Di Mascolo: Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble, Saint Martin d'Hères, France
Yannick Frein: Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble, Saint Martin d'Hères, France
Yves Dallery: Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Operations Research, 1996, vol. 44, issue 1, 50-64

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to develop a general purpose analytical method for performance evaluation of multistage kanban controlled production systems. We consider a single-part type production system decomposed into stages in series. Each stage consists of a manufacturing cell and an output buffer. With each stage is associated a given number of kanbans. The kanban controlled production system is modeled as a queueing network with synchronization mechanisms. The basic principle of the proposed approximation method is to decompose the original kanban system into a set of subsystems, each subsystem being associated with a particular stage. Each subsystem is analyzed in isolation using a product-form approximation technique. An iterative procedure is then used to determine the unknown parameters of each subsystem. Numerical results show that the method is fairly accurate.

Keywords: production/scheduling: kanban controlled production systems; queues: decomposition and product-form approximations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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