Article ID: | iaor1989185 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 27 |
Issue: | 9 |
Start Page Number: | 1487 |
End Page Number: | 1509 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1989 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Research |
Authors: | Miltenburg J., Sinnamon G. |
Many companies are converting their mixed-model multi-level production systems to just-in-time systems. This requires reducing set-up times to that small-lot production can be run. In this paper a theoretical basis is developed for scheduling these systems, and scheduling algorithms and heuristics are developed. The only other known scheduling method (the goal-chasing method), developed and used by Toyota, is shown to be a special case of these heuristics.