| Article ID: | iaor19931789 |
| Country: | Canada |
| Volume: | 31 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 111 |
| End Page Number: | 124 |
| Publication Date: | May 1993 |
| Journal: | INFOR |
| Authors: | Gravel Marc, Wilson Price |
| Keywords: | decision: applications, simulation: analysis, statistics: inference, decision theory: multiple criteria |
Usual scheduling rules are not always appropriate in a Kanban assembly job-shop. The authors present five new heuristic rules that use an analysis of assembly network diagram topology to schedule waiting jobs. The production of a sample of the products of a firm is simulated under different operation conditions. MCDM techniques allow comparison of rules for the optimization of makespan, stock level, and setups.