DocumentCode
1088269
Title
Some kanban-controlled manufacturing systems: a first stability analysis
Author
Seidman, Thomas I. ; Humes, Carlos, Jr.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Math. & Stat., Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
Volume
41
Issue
7
fYear
1996
fDate
7/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1013
Lastpage
1018
Abstract
The blockage/starvation patterns of known instability examples suggest using local demand information-which is precisely what is provided by the widely advocated kanban approach to flow control in manufacturing systems. Therefore, we have re-analyzed for stability the examples described in the 1990 Kumar-Seidman paper when modified by introducing kanban control. It is found that this does not ensure stability and, in fact, some interesting new instability phenomena arise. Counterintuitively, it is possible that increasing some reserve in a stable system may induce instability
Keywords
production control; stability; blockage/starvation patterns; flow control; instability phenomena; kanban-controlled manufacturing systems; local demand information; Control systems; Information analysis; Job shop scheduling; Manufacturing systems; Mathematics; Stability analysis; Statistics; System testing; Throughput;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9286
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/9.508908
Filename
508908
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