Manufacturing Strategies for Multi-Product, Multi-Stage Production/Inventory Systems

本研究的目的是对多阶段、多产品生产/库存系统进行深入分析。本研究首先着重于识别有效的制造策略，并对一系列绩效指标进行调查。开发这些策略的精确和近似分析模型，并将其纳入基于排队网络的分解方法，构成了第二年和第三年的大部分工作。所有阶段都涉及工业协作。生产/库存系统模型经常出现在制造系统的设计和性能研究中。尽管它们具有潜在的适用性，但它们的使用并不广泛。这主要是由于现有工具分析制造系统的能力有限。多产品、多阶段生产/库存系统制造战略的发展应为更全面的工具奠定基础，从而使分析方法更适用于生产系统环境。

The objective of this research is to carry out an in-depth analysis of multi-stage, multi-product production/inventory systems. The research first focuses on the identification of effective manufacturing strategies and their investigation over an array of performance measures. The development of exact and approximate analytical models for these strategies and their incorporation into a queuing network based decomposition approach constitutes the bulk of the effort in years two and three. Industrial collaboration is involved in all phases. Models of production/inventory systems frequently arise in design and performance studies of manufacturing systems. Despite their potential applicability, their use is not widespread. This is due mainly to the limited capability of existing tools for analyzing manufacturing systems. The development of manufacturing strategies for multi-product, multi-stage production/inventory systems should lay the groundwork for more comprehensive tools and therefore greater applicability of analytical approaches to production system environments.