References

Books on manufacturing systems performance

John A. Buzacott and J. George Shantikumar (1993) Stochastic Models of Manufacturing Systems, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Stanley B. Gershwin (1994), Manufacturing Systems Engineering, PTR Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Books about lean manufacturing and factory control

Eliahu Goldratt and Jeff Fox (1984), The Goal, American Media Inc.

Yasuhiro Monden (1983), Toyota Production System: Practical approach to production management, Industrial Engineering and Management Press, Atlanta

Shigeo Shingo (1989), A Study of the Toyota Production System from an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint, 2nd edition, Productivity Press

James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones and Daniel Roos (1990), The machine that changed the world : The story of lean production, Rawson Associates

Research papers that compare control policies

Asbjoern M. Bonvik, Christopher Couch and Stanley B. Gershwin (1996), ``A Comparison of Production-line Control Mechanisms'', accepted for publication in the International Journal of Production Research

Asbjoern M. Bonvik (1996), Performance Analysis of Manufacturing Systems Under Hybrid Control Policies, Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Michael H. Veatch and Lawrence M. Wein (1994), ``Optimal control of a two-station tandem production/inventory system'', Operations Research, vol 42, no 2, pp 337-350

Lawrence M. Wein (1988), ``Scheduling Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication'', IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, vol 1, no 3, pp 115-130

Research papers on kanban control

Blair J. Berkley (1991), ``Tandem queues and kanban-controlled lines'', International Journal of Production Research, vol 29, no 10, pp 2057-2081

Blair J. Berkley (1992), ``A Review of the Kanban Production Control Research Literature'', Production and Operations Management, vol 1, no 4, pp 393-411

Osamu Kimura and Hirosuke Terada (1981), ``Design and analysis of Pull System, a method of multi-stage production control'', International Journal of Production Research, vol 19, no 3, pp 241-253

Y. Sugimori, K. Kusunoki, F. Cho and S. Uchikawa (1977), ``Toyota production system and kanban system materialization of just-in-time and respect-for-human system'', International Journal of Production Research, vol 15, no 6, pp 553-564

Research papers on other control policies

John A. Buzacott and J. George Shantikumar (1992), ``A General Approach for Coordinating Production in Multiple-cell Manufacturing Systems'', Production and Operations Management, vol 1, no 1, pp 34-52

Richard Conway, William Maxwell, John O. McClain and L. Joseph Thomas (1988), ``The role of work-in-progress inventory in serial production lines'', Operations Research, vol 36, no 2, pp 229-241

Yves Dallery and George Liberopoulos (1995), ``Extended kanban control system: A new kanban-type pull control mechanism for multi-stage manufacturing systems''

Izak Duenyas (1994), ``A simple release policy for a network of queues with controllable inputs'', Operations Research, vol 42, no 6, pp 1162-1171

Yannick Frein, Maria Di Mascolo and Yves Dallery (1994), ``On the design of generalized kanban control systems'', To appear in International Journal of Operations and Production Management, special issue on Modelling and Analysis of Just-in-Time Manufacturing Systems

G. Kimball (1988), ``General principles of inventory control'', Journal of Manufacturing and Operations Management, vol 1, no 1, pp 119-130

Sheldon X. C. Lou and Patrick W. Kager (1989), ``A robust production control policy for VLSI wafer fabrication'', IEEE Transactions on semiconductor manufacturing, vol 2, no 4, pp 159-164

Kut C. So and Steven C. Pinault (1988), ``Allocating buffer storages in a pull system'', International Journal of Production Research, vol 15, no 12, pp 1959-1980

Mark L. Spearman, David L. Woodruff and Wallace J. Hopp (1990), ``CONWIP: a pull alternative to kanban'', International Journal of Production Research, vol 28, no 5, pp 879-894

Garrett Van Ryzin, Sheldon X. C. Lou and Stanley B. Gershwin (1993), ``Production control for a tandem two-machine system'', IIE Transactions, vol 25, no 5, pp 5-20

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This page is written by Asbjoern M. Bonvik. Last modified on March 29, 1996. It is based on research by Asbjoern M. Bonvik, Christopher Couch and Stanley B. Gershwin. It is related to the research efforts of the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, especially its Research Group 5. Please send comments to gershwin@mit.edu.