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TY - JOUR
T1 - Controlled order release
T2 - a performance assessment in job shops with sequence dependent set-up times
AU - Thürer, Matthias
AU - Silva, Cristovao
AU - Stevenson, Mark
AU - Land, Martin
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Findings from recent implementations of Workload Control (WLC) have called for research to investigate how sequence-dependent set-up times can best be handled within the design of the concept. In response, this study assesses the performance of four of the best-performing release methods from the literature in a job shop with sequence-dependent set-up times by simulation. First, the four methods are compared without considering set-up requirements at release. Second, the methods are refined to consider set-up requirements before being compared against the original methods. A release method that combines continuous and periodic release emerges as the best-performing method. Findings further suggest that considering set-up requirements at release do not have a significant positive effect on performance and may even be counterproductive: conflicting goals between the selection rules employed at release and dispatching may lead to an increase in the percentage of tardy jobs. Future research should consider whether the results hold if set-up times are not distributed equally across job types and work centres.
AB - Findings from recent implementations of Workload Control (WLC) have called for research to investigate how sequence-dependent set-up times can best be handled within the design of the concept. In response, this study assesses the performance of four of the best-performing release methods from the literature in a job shop with sequence-dependent set-up times by simulation. First, the four methods are compared without considering set-up requirements at release. Second, the methods are refined to consider set-up requirements before being compared against the original methods. A release method that combines continuous and periodic release emerges as the best-performing method. Findings further suggest that considering set-up requirements at release do not have a significant positive effect on performance and may even be counterproductive: conflicting goals between the selection rules employed at release and dispatching may lead to an increase in the percentage of tardy jobs. Future research should consider whether the results hold if set-up times are not distributed equally across job types and work centres.
KW - workload control
KW - order review and release
KW - sequence\-dependent set\-up times
KW - job shop control
U2 - 10.1080/09537287.2012.735801
DO - 10.1080/09537287.2012.735801
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 603
EP - 615
JO - Production Planning and Control
JF - Production Planning and Control
SN - 0953-7287
IS - 7
ER -