• DocumentCode
    3393442
  • Title

    Continuous flow manufacturing: the ultimate theory of constraints

  • Author

    Ruelle, O.

  • Author_Institution
    IBM France Component Dev. Lab., Corbeil-Essonnes, France
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    10-12 Sep 1997
  • Firstpage
    216
  • Lastpage
    221
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference and Workshop, 1997. IEEE/SEMI
  • Conference_Location
    Cambridge, MA
  • ISSN
    1078-8743
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4050-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ASMC.1997.630738
  • Filename
    630738