A new perspective on Workload Control by measuring operating performances through an economic valorization
Abstract Workload Control (WLC) is a production planning and control system conceived to reduce queuing times of job-shop systems, and to offer a solution to the lead time syndrome; a critical issue that often bewilders make-to-order manufacturers. Nowadays, advantages of WLC are unanimously acknowl...
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| description | Abstract Workload Control (WLC) is a production planning and control system conceived to reduce queuing times of job-shop systems, and to offer a solution to the lead time syndrome; a critical issue that often bewilders make-to-order manufacturers. Nowadays, advantages of WLC are unanimously acknowledged, but real successful stories are still limited. This paper starts from the lack of a consistent way to assess performance of WLC, an important burden for its acceptance in the industry. As researchers often put more focus on the performance measures that better confirm their hypotheses, many measures, related to different WLC features, have emerged over years. However, this excess of measures may even mislead practitioners, in the evaluation of alternative production planning and control systems. To close this gap, we propose quantifying the main benefit of WLC in economic terms, as this is the easiest, and probably only way, to compare different and even conflicting performance measures. Costs and incomes are identified and used to develop an overall economic measure that can be used to evaluate, or even to fine tune, the operating features of WLC. The quality of our approach is finally demonstrated via simulation, considering the 6-machines job-shop scenario typically adopted as benchmark in technical literature. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d53003e183784a2189d36bc3994e2f792022-12-22T04:18:53ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222022-08-0112111710.1038/s41598-022-17968-5A new perspective on Workload Control by measuring operating performances through an economic valorizationDavide Mezzogori0Giovanni Romagnoli1Francesco Zammori2Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari”, University of Modena and Reggio EmiliaDepartment of Engineering and Architecture, University of ParmaDepartment of Engineering and Architecture, University of ParmaAbstract Workload Control (WLC) is a production planning and control system conceived to reduce queuing times of job-shop systems, and to offer a solution to the lead time syndrome; a critical issue that often bewilders make-to-order manufacturers. Nowadays, advantages of WLC are unanimously acknowledged, but real successful stories are still limited. This paper starts from the lack of a consistent way to assess performance of WLC, an important burden for its acceptance in the industry. As researchers often put more focus on the performance measures that better confirm their hypotheses, many measures, related to different WLC features, have emerged over years. However, this excess of measures may even mislead practitioners, in the evaluation of alternative production planning and control systems. To close this gap, we propose quantifying the main benefit of WLC in economic terms, as this is the easiest, and probably only way, to compare different and even conflicting performance measures. Costs and incomes are identified and used to develop an overall economic measure that can be used to evaluate, or even to fine tune, the operating features of WLC. The quality of our approach is finally demonstrated via simulation, considering the 6-machines job-shop scenario typically adopted as benchmark in technical literature.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17968-5 |
| spellingShingle | Davide Mezzogori Giovanni Romagnoli Francesco Zammori A new perspective on Workload Control by measuring operating performances through an economic valorization Scientific Reports |
| title | A new perspective on Workload Control by measuring operating performances through an economic valorization |
| title_full | A new perspective on Workload Control by measuring operating performances through an economic valorization |
| title_fullStr | A new perspective on Workload Control by measuring operating performances through an economic valorization |
| title_full_unstemmed | A new perspective on Workload Control by measuring operating performances through an economic valorization |
| title_short | A new perspective on Workload Control by measuring operating performances through an economic valorization |
| title_sort | new perspective on workload control by measuring operating performances through an economic valorization |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17968-5 |
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