Performance analysis for tandem manufacturing lines under variable structure production control method.

Konstantin Starkov (1) , Alexander Pogromsky (1) , J.E. Rooda (1)

1 Department of Mechanical Engineering [Eindhoven]

In this paper authors introduce novel results on performance for surplus-based decentralized production control method. The main objective of this production method is to guarantee that the cumulative number of produced products follows the cumulative production demand on the output of any given network. As a starting point of our research a general idea of this method is presented for the case of one manufacturing machine. Then our analysis is extended to a line of $N$ machines. The proposed methodology is reformulated in terms of variable structure control. The production flow process is described by means of difference equations and in order to analyze performance Lyapunov theory approach is exploited. The obtained results on the production error bounds for each machine in the line and on the buffer content bounds for each intermediate buffer are discussed. Performance and robustness issues of the closed-loop flow line models are illustrated in numerical simulations. It is shown that the method can be implemented in the enterprise planning tools.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Konstantin Starkov, Alexander Pogromsky, J.E. Rooda. Performance analysis for tandem manufacturing lines under variable structure production control method.. International Journal of Production Research, 2011, ⟨10.1080/00207543.2011.564671⟩. ⟨hal-00715428⟩