Behavior of a Manufacturing System in Terms of Performance Parameters Under the Control of Different JIT Techniques

The control policy affects performance of a manufacturing line and can be classified as push, pull, or combination of pull and push. A pull or just-in-time (JIT) production system is a philosophy or an approach of the manufacturing system in which order release occurs due to physical removal of finished inventory in response to the customer demand. In this paper, we review the behavior of a manufacturing system in terms of performance parameters under the control of different JIT techniques. The considered control policies are kanban, CONWIP, and hybrid which are based on planned elimination of all waste and continuous improvement of productivity. A separate comparison among all the control policies in terms of performance parameters has also been included in this study. At the end, a table summarizes the use of JIT strategy or its techniques such as kanban, CONWIP and kanban-CONWIP (referred as hybrid) in manufacturing systems from the internationally reputed researches.