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POLCA Control in Two-Stage Production Systems
POLCA Control in Two-Stage Production Systems
- Source :
- Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos), Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC)-FCT-Sociedade da Informação, instacron:RCAAP, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2020.
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Abstract
- 30th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM2021) 15-18 June 2021, Athens, Greece.<br />POLCA (Paired-cell Overlapping Loops of Cards with Authorization) is a decision support system for material flow control under Quick Response Manufacturing. It operates in the context of low-volume, high-mix, and cellular manufacturing. While there is an increasing literature on POLCA performance, current studies usually assume full availability of components (or parts) at assembly stations, neglecting parts manufacturing and feeding. Therefore, this study uses simulation to assess POLCA performance in a two-stage production system, where at the first stage parts are manufactured and at the second, they are assembled into end-products. The study demonstrates that using POLCA to control both production stages, manufacturing and assembly, significantly outperforms the use of POLCA at the assembly stage only, leading to important reductions of the total throughput time of orders and on the percentage of tardy orders. Statistical analysis of our results was conducted using ANOVA.<br />This work has been supported by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the R&D Units Project Scope: UIDB/00319/2020
- Subjects :
- 0209 industrial biotechnology
Decision support system
Computer science
Cellular manufacturing
Control (management)
Context (language use)
02 engineering and technology
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Material flow
Reliability engineering
020303 mechanical engineering & transports
020901 industrial engineering & automation
0203 mechanical engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Production (economics)
POLCA
Two-stage production system
Throughput (business)
Quick response manufacturing
Simulation
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos), Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC)-FCT-Sociedade da Informação, instacron:RCAAP, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a9f48b6f62b4fe9d714326cc41312fed