Balancing Trade-offs between Utilization and Work-in-Process Inventory Levels in Flow Shop Production

W. Li; Z. H. Zhang

doi:10.1109/COASE.2018.8560561

Balancing Trade-offs between Utilization and Work-in-Process Inventory Levels in Flow Shop Production

W. Li, Z. H. Zhang

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Abstract

Production and operations management is becoming increasingly challenging in a manufacturing system nowadays, as many processes are involved in the system and production performance is evaluated from different perspectives. Therefore, trade-off balancing is critical to achieve sustainable operations management. We propose a trade-off balancing model, and use our state space (SS) heuristic to show the effectiveness and efficiency in balancing trade-offs between utilization (Util) and work-in-process (WIP) inventories in a flow line. Our SS heuristic is superior to the best-known methods to max(Util) and min(WIP) respectively, showing consistent performance on trade-off balancing for adaptive production scheduling and control with variation in processing times.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2018
Pages	1257-1262
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538635933
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2018.8560561
State	Published - Dec 4 2018
Event	14th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2018 - Munich, Germany Duration: Aug 20 2018 → Aug 24 2018

Publication series

Name	IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
Volume	2018-August
ISSN (Print)	2161-8070
ISSN (Electronic)	2161-8089

Conference

Conference	14th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2018
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Munich
Period	8/20/18 → 8/24/18

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© 2018 IEEE.

Funding

We appreciate support from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Kentucky, Department of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University, and Tsinghua IE-Jiaozhou Logistic Research Center. * Research was supported by grant number R03HS024633 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

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Department of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University
Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Kentucky
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Li, W., & Zhang, Z. H. (2018). Balancing Trade-offs between Utilization and Work-in-Process Inventory Levels in Flow Shop Production. In 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2018 (pp. 1257-1262). Article 8560561 (IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering; Vol. 2018-August). https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2018.8560561

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