Analysis and design of control strategies in manufacturing systems with serial stages

Several alternative manufacturing control strategies are under study in the literature. They are, specifically, push system, pull system, conwip system, and, as a special case, infinite buffer system. The paper focuses on modeling, comparison, analysis, and design of these systems. The event epoch sequences of each system are generated which also enable it to compare their performances. Then the stochastic monotonicity of these event epoch sequences in several important design parameters are established through the structure of the generalized semi-Markov schemes on which they are based. Finally, the paper solves the stochastic optimization problem which minimizes these event epochs. The present results supplement the applicability of some previously known results in the literature. [In Korean.]