Kanban-Controlled Manufacturing Systems

By Georg Krieg and Georg

5th Werner Kern Award for Productivity Research 2005 Kanban control systems bear a great potential to significantly improve operations. A company may reap the full benefits of kanban control only after determining an optimal or near-optimal system configuration. To do that, methods are needed to evaluate the performance and operating costs of individual system configurations. We propose an innovative construction-kit approach that enables us to build stochastic analytical models of a large class of single- and multi-product kanban systems. The presented construction-kit approach may be extended and augmented in various directions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 354022999X
• ISBN13: 9783540229995
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"