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A Simulation Study of Workload Accounting Methods for WLC

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ENTERprise Information Systems (CENTERIS 2010)

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Workload control (WLC) is a production planning and control concept designed for complex manufacturing systems. Several Decision Support Systems (DSS) have been developed based on WLC concept. These require a number of parameters to be specified. However, it is recognised by academics and practitioners that parameter specification for these DSS is a difficult task. For a better understanding of manufacturing systems performance behaviour under the influence of two important order release parameters, namely the release frequency and the planning period, a simulation study was carried out. This was done for a system operation under two well known workload accounting methods for WLC: the load conversion method and the corrected aggregated load method. The results are instrumental to the understanding of the manufacturing system performance and the DSS parameterisation in particular manufacturing situations.

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  1. Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Av. do Empresário, 6000-767, Castelo Branco, Portugal

    N. O. Fernandes

  2. Dept. of Production and Systems, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

    S. Carmo-Silva

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  1. Dept. de Engenharias, Quinta de Prados, University of Trás-os Montes e Alto Douro, Apartado 1013, 5001-801, Vila Real, Portugal

    João Eduardo Quintela Varajão

  2. Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Campus do IPCA, Lugar do Aldão, 4750-810, Vila Frescaínha - Barcelos, Portugal

    Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha

  3. University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4800-058, Guimaraes, Portugal

    Goran D. Putnik

  4. Coimbra Institute of Accounting and Administration, Portugal

    António Trigo

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Fernandes, N.O., Carmo-Silva, S. (2010). A Simulation Study of Workload Accounting Methods for WLC. In: Quintela Varajão, J.E., Cruz-Cunha, M.M., Putnik, G.D., Trigo, A. (eds) ENTERprise Information Systems. CENTERIS 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 109. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16402-6_29

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