Abstract:
To achieve both efficiency of mass production and flexibility of job shop or batch production, "virtual cellular manufacturing"(VCM) is shown possible by past research. VCM views cells as temporary and virtual entities. A preliminary investigation is done to push and pull control paradigms for VCM using a stochastic Petri nets (SPN) approach. The result of the study shows that, under conventional assumptions, pull system is better in controlling of work-in-process (WIP) while push system improves utilization.
Key words:
Virtual cellular manufacturing Stochastic Petri nets Push and pull Production planning and control
* Selected from Proceedings of International Symposium of Advanced Manufacturing Technology ISAMT'2001); revised manuscript July 20, 2002
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