Determining inventory levels in a CONWIP controlled job shop

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2000-01-01
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Baynat, Bruno
Choobineh, F. Fred
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Ryan, Sarah
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Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
The Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering teaches the design, analysis, and improvement of the systems and processes in manufacturing, consulting, and service industries by application of the principles of engineering. The Department of General Engineering was formed in 1929. In 1956 its name changed to Department of Industrial Engineering. In 1989 its name changed to the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering.
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We extend the concept of CONWIP control to a job shop setting, in which multiple products with distinct routings compete for the same set of resources. The problem is to determine the fixed overall WIP level and its allocation to product types (WIP mix) to meet a uniformly high customer service requirement for each product type. We formulate an optimization problem for an open queuing network model in which customer orders pull completed products from the system. Then, assuming heavy demand, we derive a throughput target for each product type in a closed queuing network and provide a simple heuristic to find a minimum total WJP and WIP mix that will achieve an operating throughput close to this target. In numerical examples, the WIP mix suggested by this approach achieves the customer service requirement with a relatively low total WIP

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in IIE Transactionson in 2000, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07408170008963883

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