Performance Modelling of Pull Manufacturing Systems with Batch Servers and Assemblylike S.pdfVIP

Universitat W urzburg Institut f ur Informatik Research Rep ort Series Performance Mo delling of Pull Manufacturing Systems with Batch Servers and Assem blylike Structure Alexander K Schomig and Matthias Kahnt Rep ort No March Bay erische JuliusMaximilians Univ ersitat Wurzburg Institut f ur Informatik Lehrstuhl f ur Informatik I I I Am Hubland D Wurzburg Federal Republic of Germany Tel Fax email scho emiginformatik uniwuerzburgde Abstract The manufacturing industries need to fo cus on reducing workinpro cess WIP as well as pro duct cycle times has led to a widespread employm ent of the justin time JIT pro duction philosophy and in particular kan ban systems Queueing mo dels of several dierent kan ban systems have b een previously presented fo cusing on single job ser vice machines We extend the mo del and approximation metho d presen ted by Mitra and Mitrani to in vestigate a singlecard kan ban system with batch servers Batch servers are machines that can pro cess several jobs or lots at a time We use the same technique to analyze assem blylike manufacturing systems and man ufacturing systems with more than only one machine in each kan ban cell We compare n umerical approximations with sim ulations of the congurations under con sideration We also discuss how giv en parameters inuence p erformance measures such as pro duction rate throughput cycle time and WIP This study was motivated by the need of semiconductor man ufacturers for kan banlike pull pro duction