Synchronous Manufacturing
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Also known under the name of
Theory of Constraints', synchronous manufacturing is a scheduling and
manufacturing control system that constantly seeks for constraints which are
then eliminated or at least minimised in order to improve the production output
(Ball et a1,2008).
The system is dependent on the
output of the slowest operation, the bottleneck, of the process. The bottleneck
runs at its full capacity and all other machines need to be adapted to the
bottleneck. The bottleneck usually is tried to be improved in order to increase
the production rate. As soon as the bottleneck's operation time is solved, the
next bottleneck of the process can be found. Therefore synchronous
manufacturing improves the production step by step with improving the latest discovered
bottleneck of a process (Ball et a1,2008J.
Synchronous manufacturing aims
to balance the product flow through the system which leaves output levels of
the various operations unbalanced. This means that the bottleneck always runs
at full capacity, but another operation might only run at 60 % capacity as
otherwise there is unwanted inventory produced. What is an advantage of
synchronous manufacturing is that if any machine located before the bottleneck
breaks down; the product line has not to be stopped like in the Just-In-Time
process. This can be achieved as all operations, apart from the bottleneck,
have excess capacity (Ball et al, 2008).
Appendix 7 compares the
Just-In-Time and Synchronous Manufacturing.
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Chain and Distribution Management Rakowski, Cheuk Yin Tang,
Kammala, Sorraphetpisai, Sahai Mathur (Pg. 17)
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Synchronous manufacturing is defined by APICS as follows:
Synchronous manufacturing is a manufacturing management philosophy that
includes a consistent set of principles, procedures and techniques where every action is evaluated in terms of the global goal of the system.
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing JAMES A. REHG (pg:280)
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