Production Control Systems A Guide to Enhance Performance of Pull Systems /

• Main Author: Khojasteh, Yacob (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Management for Professionals,
• Subjects: Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Industrial organization.; Economics.; Industrial Organization.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Management.

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 em...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Pull and Push Systems, Just-in-Time Systems, Need for Control Systems in a Pull Context)
• Unified View of Pull Production Systems
• The Magic of Pull Production Systems
• A Unified Framework for Production Control Systems
• Analysis of Control Systems in Serial Production Lines
• Analysis of Control Systems in Assembly Production Systems
• Conclusions
• Appendix.