Just-in-Time Scheduling in Modern Mass Production Environment

Joanna Józefowska ()
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Joanna Józefowska: Poznań University of Technology

Chapter Chapter 8 in Just-in-Time Systems, 2012, pp 171-190 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The main goal of just-in-time production planing is the reduction of the in-process inventory level. This goal may be achieved by completing the items as close to their further processing (or shipment) dates as possible. In the mass production environment, it is too costly to define and control due dates for individual items. Instead, the model proposed in Toyota is applied that assumes monitoring the actual product rate of particular products. The objective is to construct schedules with minimum deviation from an ideal product rate. In the approach aimed at minimization of the Product Rate Variation, the control process concentrates on product types, not individual items. In this chapter, we discuss the PRV model and scheduling algorithms developed to solve this problem with two types of objectives: to minimize the total or maximum deviation from the ideal product rate. We present algorithms proposed in the context of the just-in-time production scheduling as well as in other areas, adopted later to solve the PRV problem. One of the most interesting problems discussed in this context is the apportionment problem. Originally, the PRV problem was defined as a single machine scheduling problem. We show that some algorithms can be generalized to solve the parallel-machine scheduling problem as well.

Keywords: Schedule Problem; Assembly Line; Divisor Function; Hamilton Method; Divisor Method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1123-9_8

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