Kanban Controlled Pull Systems: An Analytic Approach

Three problem areas exist in designing and implementing a kanban controlled JIT system: the identification of flow lines problem, the flow line loading problem and the operational control problem. This paper addresses the operational control problem. A general N-stage serial production system is modeled as a discrete time Markov process. Capacity constraints, stochastic machine reliability and demand variability are included. The model is illustrated by a 3-stage system, describing the effects of the number of kanbans, the machine reliability, the demand variability and safety stock requirements on the performance of a kanban controlled pull system.

• 저널Management Science · 35(9) · 1079–1091
• 토픽Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis · Management Information Systems
• DOI10.1287/mnsc.35.9.1079
• 저자Jean-Luc Deleersnyder, Thom J. Hodgson, H Muller-Malek, Peter O’Grady