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Engineering Production Control Strategies

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Today’s manufacturing reality is characterized by a constantly increasing complexity of production systems. The growing complexity of products, shorter product lifecycles, mass customization, or agile manufacturing are some of the driving factors behind this change (Abele et al. 2009; Hopp and Spearman 2008). This development imposes high demands on the production control strategy. To achieve high delivery performance, quality, and flexibility at lowest cost possible in complex production systems, it is essential to have the right production control strategy (PCS) in place.

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    First mentioned by Pine (1993)

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    First mentioned by Institute Iacocca (1991)

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    For an introduction to the concept of complexity in the context of production systems, the interested reader is referred to Appendix 8.5

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    Christoph Karrer

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Karrer, C. (2011). Introduction. In: Engineering Production Control Strategies. Management for Professionals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24142-0_1

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