Abstract
A manufacturing system is specified in terms of a collection of stations (machines, processes, or work centers) that are required to produce the product. The equipment needed to manufacture the product comprises the machine or process level of manufacturing hierarchy. The production level consists of the cell/line level that contains groups of machines, processes, or workstations, and the factory floor level that contains the complete production facility. A key aspect of production is the movement or routing of materials, parts, or assemblies through the manufacturing facility and the processing of jobs at the individual stations. Performance measures are very useful in characterizing the behavior of a manufacturing system. They are particularly important in determining control requirements on both the machine/process level and the production level. The manufacturing lead time (MLT) is the amount of time required to manufacture the batch of Q quantities, where Q is called the lot size or the batch size. The MLT specifies when the manufacturing process should be started in order to be able to meet the delivery date specified by the customer.
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