A Study of Production Smoothing in a Job Shop Environment (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Study of Production Smoothing in a Job Shop Environment We consider the problem of smoothing production in a job shop in which all production is to customer order. We present an approach to production smoothing based on the concept of a planning window. A planning window is the difference between the promised delivery time and the planned production time for a product. It represents the degree of flexibility available for planning the production of committed orders. We characterize the production smoothing benefits for a range of planning windows by means of an approximate analytic model and a simulation study. These analyses show that substantial smoothing benefits result from small changes in the length of the planning window. We discuss the implementation of the production smoothing approach and illustrate this implementation with an industrial case study that was the motivation for this work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.