• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.280-287
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• 2001

There have been some studies about hybrid production system, which integrate push system and pull system. Most of them are based on the simple production system considering one product line. Though there are many studies about hybrid production system, it\`s not practical to implement them for real factory, because most of them did not consider various factors about real factory. On this study we designed hybrid production system considering some factor - one is automatic kanban generation, the other is dispatching rule for Multi-tasking worker, and the last one is the priority of kanban. At last, We give simulation results fur a real company, which produce various cameras in Korea.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.140-152
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• 2021

During the shift from gasoline vehicles to electric ones, auto parts manufacturing companies have realized the importance of improvement in the manufacturing process that does not require any layout changes nor extra investments, while maintaining their current production rate. Due to these reasons, for the auto part manufacturing company, I-company, this study has developed the simulation model of the PUSH system to conduct a process analysis in terms of production rate, WIP level, and logistics work's utilization rate. In addition, this study compares the PUSH system with other three manufacturing systems -KANBAN, DBR, and CONWIP- to compare the performance of these production systems, while satisfying the company's target production rate. With respect to lead-time, the simulation results show that the improvement of 77.90% for the KANBAN system, 40.39% for the CONWIP system, and 69.81% for the DBR system compared to the PUSH system. In addition, with respect to WIP level, the experimental results demonstrate that the improvement of 77.91% for the KANBAN system, 40.41% for the CONWIP system, and 69.82% for the DBR system compared to the PUSH system. Since the KANBAN system has the largest impacts on the reduction of the lead-time and WIP level compared to other production systems, this study recommends the KANBAN system as the proper manufacturing system of the target company. This study also shows that the proper size of moving units is four and the priority allocation of bottleneck process methods improves the target company's WIP and lead-time. Based on the results of this study, the adoption of the KANBAN system will significantly improve the production process of the target company in terms of lead-time and WIP level.