Bottleneck Management in Discrete Batch Production
Ferenčíková Denisa
Keywords:
bottleneck management, bottleneck shiftiness, production planning, Theory of Constraints, TOC,
capacity planning, Drum-Buffer-Rope
Abstract:
Today, production planning and scheduling becomes very important part of production management
because companies have to react to dynamic market conditions and rising customers´
requirements for shorter delivery times, lower prices and better quality and services. They can
use a lot of sophisticated methods and approaches to make their planning processes more ef-
ficient and thus meet growing customers´ requirements. However, using these new approaches
is not so easy in all types of production systems. This paper deals with production planning
and scheduling in discrete batch production that is just an example of very complicated production
system. This type of production process is susceptible to demand fluctuation and facility
exceptions and this implies bottleneck shifting. Therefore it is quite difficult to implement
methods such as Theory of Constraints (TOC) for production planning improvement in the
standard way. One part of this paper is a case study wherecurrent production planning and
scheduling in real factory is improved just through the use TOC principles.
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 10.7441/joc.2012.02.11
Ferenčíková, D. (2012). Bottleneck Management in Discrete Batch Production. Journal of Competitiveness, 4 (2), 161-171. https://doi.org/10.7441/joc.2012.02.11
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