A comparison of HK-CONWIP and BK-CONWIP control strategies in a multi-product manufacturing system

This paper evaluates the performance of the Hybrid Kanban Constant Work-In-Process control strategy and Basestock Kanban Constant Work-In-Process control strategy operating Shared Kanban Allocation Policy (S-KAP) and Dedicated Kanban Allocation Policy (D-KAP) in a multi-product serial flow line. We...

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Main Authors: Chukwunonyelum Emmanuel Onyeocha, Jiayi Wang, Joseph Khoury, John Geraghty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-12-01
Series:Operations Research Perspectives
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214716015000159