Development of a Pull Production Control Method for ETO Companies and Simulation for the Metallurgical Industry

Gejo García, Javier; Gallego-García, Sergio; García-García, Manuel

doi:10.3390/app10010274

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Development of a Pull Production Control Method for ETO Companies and Simulation for the Metallurgical Industry

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Javier Gejo García

,

Sergio Gallego-García

and

Manuel García-García

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Department of Construction and Fabrication Engineering, National Distance Education University (UNED), 28040 Madrid, Spain

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Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(1), 274; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10010274

Submission received: 29 October 2019 / Revised: 14 December 2019 / Accepted: 27 December 2019 / Published: 30 December 2019

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Special Issue of the Manufacturing Engineering Society 2019 (SIMES-2019))

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At the moment, many engineer-to-order manufacturers are under pressure, the overcapacity in many sectors erodes prices and many companies, especially in Europe have gone into recent years in bankruptcy. Due to the increasing competition as well as the new customer requirements, the internal processes of an ETO company play an essential role in order to achieve a unique selling proposition (USP). Therefore this paper exposes how the production planning and control of an engineer-to-order manufacturer can be designed in order to increase its OTD (order-to-delivery) rate as well as decrease the WIP (work-in-progress) and the production lead times. To prove the optimized planning logic, it was applied in a simulation case study and based on the results; the conclusions about its potential are derived.

Keywords: engineer-to-order; order management process; production planning and control; capacity planning; maintenance management; order-to-delivery; agent-based simulation; metallurgical industry

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Gejo García, J.; Gallego-García, S.; García-García, M. Development of a Pull Production Control Method for ETO Companies and Simulation for the Metallurgical Industry. Appl. Sci. 2020, 10, 274. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10010274

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Gejo García J, Gallego-García S, García-García M. Development of a Pull Production Control Method for ETO Companies and Simulation for the Metallurgical Industry. Applied Sciences. 2020; 10(1):274. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10010274

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Gejo García, Javier, Sergio Gallego-García, and Manuel García-García. 2020. "Development of a Pull Production Control Method for ETO Companies and Simulation for the Metallurgical Industry" Applied Sciences 10, no. 1: 274. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10010274

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Gejo García, J., Gallego-García, S., & García-García, M. (2020). Development of a Pull Production Control Method for ETO Companies and Simulation for the Metallurgical Industry. Applied Sciences, 10(1), 274. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10010274

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