Improving the electronics manufacturing response in an assembly-to-order environment
by Petri T. Helo, Olli-Pekka K. Hilmola
International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management (IJMTM), Vol. 5, No. 4, 2003

Abstract: Manufacturing of electronics products requires high quality and rapid response for customer satisfaction and business profitability. In this paper, the authors propose a queuing theory based method for improving the response measured as order lead time. In the literature, models have illustrated well the trade-off between capacity utilisation and lead time. The results show the possibilities of defining lot sizes as time-based variables. This reduces the variation in service rate and helps in forecasting the actual available-to-promise capability of a production system. The practical applicability of the approximation is discussed as well improvements for further research.

Online publication date: Tue, 09-Sep-2003

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