Development and analysis of pull control systems for effective management of production systems

Abstract

The manufacturing industries for the past few decades are looking for the optimization of the parameters, like work in process and manufacturing lead time. The pull control systems result in reduction of lead time, work-in- process and cost. These control systems also improve quality, production volumes and eliminates waste. The blends of the existing pull control systems translate as a new approach to satisfy the manufacturing requirements. The thesis addresses the modeling and simulation analysis of CONWIP, KCS and EKCS for single flow line multi-stage; multi flow line multi-stage; and single flow line multi-stage multi-product systems. The thesis is classified into four stages; literature review, research objectives, model configuration and simulation, simulation results for performance analysis along with a case study of the industry.