An analytical method for the performance evaluation of echelon kanban control systems

Stelios Koukoumialos () and George Liberopoulos ()
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Stelios Koukoumialos: University of Thessaly
George Liberopoulos: University of Thessaly

A chapter in Stochastic Modeling of Manufacturing Systems, 2006, pp 193-222 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We develop a general purpose analytical approximation method for the performance evaluation of a multi-stage, serial, echelon kanban control system. The basic principle of the method is to decompose the original system into a set of nested subsystems, each subsystem being associated with a particular echelon of stages. Each subsystem is analyzed in isolation using a product-form approximation technique. An iterative procedure is used to determine the unknown parameters of each subsystem. Numerical results show that the method is fairly accurate.

Keywords: Production/inventory control; Multi-stage system; Echelon kanban; Performance evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/3-540-29057-5_9

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