Concurrent-WIP: an illustrative example with application to WIP absorption

Pierre Lemaire (1)

1 G-SCOP - Laboratoire des sciences pour la conception, l'optimisation et la production

The Concurrent WIP (CWIP) is a way to monitor locally a production system so as to characterize how this system behaves in the current real conditions; it applies to any kind of production system and does not require a precise knowledge nor description of this system. This technical report provides an illustrative usage on how to compute CWIP and associated indicators, and use them to infer the time required to absorb a given amount of WIP.

Keywords: Concurrent WIP; production systems

Domains: Operations Research [math.OC]

Pierre Lemaire. Concurrent-WIP: an illustrative example with application to WIP absorption. 2019. ⟨hal-02084050v1⟩