Abstract
World-wide in Philips plants production systems are installed consisting of a number of work stations and an automatic transport system connecting these work stations. An important problem is the design of these production systems in such a way that targets set by plant management with respect to production capacity and throughput time are met. Both the Department of Mechanization Principles of the Centre for Manufacturing Technology (CFT) and the Centre for Quantitative Methods (CQM) operate as internal consultants within Philips to support management on this subject and both groups do research in the field of performance evaluation of production systems. Together CFT and CQM have started a project to analyze basic production systems often met in practice and to find operational rules (rules of thumb) that can help to do global design of production systems.
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