Performance Analysis of Hybrid Control Serial Production Lines

This paper studied a multiple-stage tandem production system. The control strategy is Hybrid which combines Kanban and CONWIP strategy together. We focus on work-in-process (WIP) and service lost rate of the system. Thus we propose some approximation methods here. We consider a simple situation and formulate this production control as a Markov chain process. Then we derive the steady-state probability of the system for two and three machines case, obtain the WIP and the service lost rate. The formulations proposed show the connection of control cards and performance measure. We also present the results of a simulation study that tests the performance of our approach.