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Performance Comparison between Material Flow Control Mechanisms Using Simulation

시뮬레이션을 통한 생산흐름통제시스템의 성능비교

  • Park, Sang-Geun (School of Information and Computer Engineering, Hongik University) ;
  • Ha, Chung-Hun (School of Information and Computer Engineering, Hongik University)
  • 박상근 (홍익대학교 정보컴퓨터공학부 산업공학전공) ;
  • 하정훈 (홍익대학교 정보컴퓨터공학부 산업공학전공)
  • Received : 2012.01.12
  • Accepted : 2012.02.27
  • Published : 2012.03.31
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Abstract

Material flow control mechanism is a kind of operational policy in manufacturing. It is very important because it varies throughput, throughput time, and work-in-process (WIP) under the same manufacturing resources. Many Researchers have developed various material flow control mechanisms and insisted that their mechanism is superior to others. However the experimental environment used in the performance comparison are different and impractical. In this paper, we set various manufacturing environments to fairly compare five previous material flow control mechanism : Push, Pull, CONWIP, Gated MaxWIP, and Critical WIP Loops. The simulation results show that the Push is superior to others in both of throughput and WIP if required demand is less than 80% of capacity. In addition, the performance of CONWIP and its variants are not different statistically.

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