Article ID: | iaor20013292 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 39 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 307 |
End Page Number: | 328 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Research |
Authors: | Dallery Yves, Frein Yannick, Baynat Bruno, Mascolo Maria De |
Keywords: | Kanbans |
Analytical methods have been proposed in the literature for performance evaluation of kanban control systems. Among them, the method presented by Di Mascolo and colleagues appears to be of special interest since it can handle manufacturing stages consisting of any number of machines and it is fairly accurate. This paper presents a new way of deriving the analytical method presented by Di Mascolo