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Efficient and effective production control systems are very important for manufacturing plants. CONWIP, one of these production control systems, has a high potential of becoming the best one available because it suits a variety of production environments and is easy to implement. In the following paper, we compare the single-loop and multi-loop CONWIP production control systems for an actual lamp assembly production line producing different kinds of products with discrete distribution processing time and demand. A model is formulated with respect to total cost and service level. A novel rule-based genetic algorithm (GA) approach is proposed for the multi-loop CONWIP system to find the optimum parameter setting. The results have shown that the single-loop CONWIP production control system is more efficient than the multi-loop system. It can greatly decrease the total cost and the WIP (Work-In-Process) with zero shortage probability.
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Ip, W.H., Huang, M., Yung, K.L. et al. CONWIP based control of a lamp assembly production line. J Intell Manuf 18, 261–271 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-007-0021-0
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