SOME KANBAN-CONTROLLED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS - A FIRST STABILITY ANALYSIS

Authors
SEIDMAN TI HUMES C
Citation
Ti. Seidman et C. Humes, SOME KANBAN-CONTROLLED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS - A FIRST STABILITY ANALYSIS, IEEE transactions on automatic control, 41(7), 1996, pp. 1013-1018
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Controlo Theory & Cybernetics","Robotics & Automatic Control","Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
IEEE transactions on automatic control → ACNP
ISSN journal
00189286
Volume
41
Issue
7
Year of publication
1996
Pages
1013 - 1018
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9286(1996)41:7<1013:SKMS-A>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
The blockage/starvation patterns of known instability examples suggest using local demand information-which is precisely what is provided by the widely advocated kanban approach to flow control in manufacturing Systems. Therefore, we have re-analyzed for stability the examples de scribed in the 1990 Kumar-Seidman paper when modified by introducing k anban control. It is found that this does not ensure stability and, in fact, some interesting new instability phenomena arise. Counterintuit ively, it is possible that increasing some reserve in a stable system may induce instability.