Title :
Continuous flow manufacturing: the ultimate theory of constraints
Author_Institution :
IBM France Component Dev. Lab., Corbeil-Essonnes, France
Abstract :
We have devised with the help of IBM Consulting Group a fully operational and practical operations management system based on ranges (i.e, one day sections of our production line). This system called continuous flow manufacturing (CFM) allows to manage the bottlenecks of a line implement a continuous improvement strategy aimed towards bottlenecks elimination. To that extent it is a clever implementation of Kanban principles and Theory of Constraints
Keywords :
constraint theory; management; semiconductor device manufacture; bottleneck management; constraint theory; continuous flow manufacturing; kanban; operations management; semiconductor fab; Conference management; Constraint theory; Degradation; Manufacturing; Microelectronics; Production systems; Productivity; Queueing analysis; Random access memory; Semiconductor device manufacture;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference and Workshop, 1997. IEEE/SEMI
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4050-7
DOI :
10.1109/ASMC.1997.630738
