Simultaneous manufacturing in batch production

This paper is concerned with the implementation of Simultaneous Manufacturing philosophy in batch production of job-shop like manufacturing systems. It addresses the processing of jobs, either simple, requiring the manufacture of a batch of parts, i.e. simple products, or complex, comprehending the parts fabrication and their multistage assembly into a batch of products. In this work the simultaneous manufacturing philosophy was implemented through the widespread use of batch overlapping, which proved particularly effective in reducing job throughput time, maintaining operating simplicity and requiring reduced coordination.