Material Flow Control in a Sequence Dependent Job Shop

摘要

Material flow control involves the release and dispatching of orders to meet customer due dates, while minimizing costs. Although a significant amount of job shop material flow control literature exists, a void with respect to order release in a sequence dependent setup (SDS) environment remains. This research provides a comprehensive literature review of job shop order review and release (ORR) simulation based studies. Simulation based studies comprise the majority of the ORR research literature. The literature review served as the basis for developing order release and dispatching mechanisms that can be implemented in a SDS job shop.