PUSH AND PULL PRODUCTION SYSTEMS - ISSUES AND COMPARISONS
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
SPEARMAN, ML; ZAZANIS, MA
刊物名称：
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
ISSN/ISSBN：
0030-364X
DOI：
10.1287/opre.40.3.521
发表日期：
1992
页码：
521-532
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摘要：
Concerns about American manufacturing competitiveness compel new interest in alternative production control strategies. In this paper, we examine the behavior of push and pull production systems in an attempt to explain the apparent superior performance of pull systems. We consider three conjectures: that pull systems have less congestion; that pull systems are inherently easier to control; and that the benefits of a pull environment owe more to the fact that WIP is bounded than to the practice of pulling everywhere. We examine these conjectures for analytically tractable models. In doing so, we not only find supporting evidence for our surmises but also identify a control strategy that has push and pull characteristics and appears to outperform both pure push and pure pull systems. This hybrid system also appears to be more general in its applicability than traditional pull systems such as Kanban.