英文摘要 |
One of the most challenging problems of production management is how to streamline multiple processes to respond to customer demands quickly and efficiently. The synchronization concept is widely but implicitly used in current industrial/business practices, such as ERP, QR, SCM, etc. However, lacking proper tools to represent complex interactions among processes makes it difficult for people to deliberately analyze and design a synchronized production system. In this paper, we take advantage of the "Theory of Constraints" and apply the system dynamics approach to develop a dynamic design and analysis framework for a synchronized production system. With an electronic company as an example, our proposed framework is proved to be valid and effective in improving the production system’s performance as a whole. |