| Article ID: | iaor1991365 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 15 |
| Start Page Number: | 245 |
| End Page Number: | 260 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1989 |
| Journal: | Engineering Costs and Production Economics |
| Authors: | Walbank Martin |
| Keywords: | production, inventory |
The aim of this paper is to examine the underlying information-control flows which ultimately determine system performance. This offers a common basis for describing all manufacturing control systems within which specific approaches can be examined-not to prove that one is best but to help in matching control systems to specific supply-manufacturing-market combinations.