Order Releasing and Scheduling for a Multi-Item MTO Industry: An Efficient Heuristic Based on Drum Buffer Rope

Increasing productivity and efficiency in factories with make-to-order (MTO) production systems have attracted growing interest of academia and industry. In MTO companies, efficient order release and schedule are essential for succeeding in today’s marketplace. However, dynamic demand of customers a...

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Published in:Applied sciences 2022-02, Vol.12 (4), p.1925
Main Authors: Yue, Lei, Xu, Guangyan, Mumtaz, Jabir, Chen, Yarong, Zou, Tao
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Assembly lines
capacity constrained resource
Consumption
drum buffer rope
Heuristic
heuristic algorithm
Inventory
Manufacturing
multi-item scheduling
order releasing
Problem solving
Production planning
Scheduling
Tightness
Work in process
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Summary:Increasing productivity and efficiency in factories with make-to-order (MTO) production systems have attracted growing interest of academia and industry. In MTO companies, efficient order release and schedule are essential for succeeding in today’s marketplace. However, dynamic demand of customers and constrained resources make it difficult to achieve, as well as limiting the profits. Thus, to overcome the problem of order releasing and multi-item scheduling considering the capacity constrained resources investigated, a heuristic approach is proposed based on the drum-buffer-rope (DBR) method. The proposed heuristic is tested on different types of problems based on due date tightness and demand of products. The performance of the proposed heuristic is compared with other famous heuristic methods in literature. End results indicate that the proposed heuristic based on the DBR method outperforms against the other competitors, and it gives more significant results when optimal buffer size is adopted.
ISSN:2076-3417
2076-3417
DOI:10.3390/app12041925