Relación entre el tamaño de lote de transferencia y el desempeño de un sistema de manufactura tipo "Flow-Shop".

This research uses batch sizing as a strategy that complements machine scheduling in the companies. The objective is analyze the flow shop production system behavior when it uses different batch transfer size, under the performance measures.makespan and mean flow time. The experimental design includes the transfer batch size policy, the demand level and the mix products. It results in 192 different analysis situations; these were represented under a mixed integer programming formulation and then were solved in GAMS, using CPLEX as optimizer. Results indicate that use transfer batch improve the production system performance. However, by the setup influence, select the transfer batch size more appropriate depends of the amount of products made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]