Performance Analysis of a Manufacturing Line Operated under Optimal Surplus-Based Production Control

We examine optimality and performance of a tandem manufacturing line driven by a surplus-based decentralized production control strategy. The main objective of this type of production strategies is to guarantee that the cumulative number of produced products follows the cumulative production demand...

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Published in:Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2012-01, Vol.2012 (2012), p.1516-1541-390
Main Authors: Matveev, A., Pogromsky, Alexander, Feoktistova, V., Starkov, K. K., Rooda, J. E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Closed loops
Computer simulation
Costs
Decision making
Demand
Demand analysis
Dynamical systems
Error analysis
Line managers
Manufacturing
Marketing
Mathematical models
Networks
Operations research
Optimization
Production control
Production controls
Robust control
Robustness
Strategy
Studies
Tracking control
Tracking errors
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Summary:We examine optimality and performance of a tandem manufacturing line driven by a surplus-based decentralized production control strategy. The main objective of this type of production strategies is to guarantee that the cumulative number of produced products follows the cumulative production demand on the output of the given network. The basic idea of surplus-based control strategy is presented for the case of one manufacturing machine. We prove that this strategy is optimal. Then, a flow model of a line composed of arbitrarily many machines with bounded buffers is analyzed. We prove that the surplus-based production control enables this network to efficiently follow the product demand and establish the relation between the efficiency in the production tracking error and the intermediate inventory levels of a line. Performance and robustness of the flow model of the closed-loop manufacturing line are illustrated by computer simulations.
ISSN:1024-123X
1563-5147
DOI:10.1155/2012/602094