Kanban-Controlled Manufacturing Systems

• Main Author: Krieg, Georg N. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 549
• Subjects: Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Mathematics.; Economics.; Management science.; Economics, general.; Operations Management.; Mathematics, general.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.
• Physical Description: X, 238 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540271468
• ISSN: 0075-8442 ;

5th Werner Kern Award for Productivity Research 2005 Kanban control systems bear a great potential to significantly improve operations. A company may reap the full benefits of kanban control only after determining an optimal or near-optimal system configuration. To do that, methods are needed to evaluate the performance and operating costs of individual system configurations. We propose an innovative construction-kit approach that enables us to build stochastic analytical models of a large class of single- and multi-product kanban systems. The presented construction-kit approach may be extended and augmented in various directions. .