Flow Disturbance Analysis in Workshops with High Reworks Rate

Abstract

Companies with high reworks rate have a real problem of flow management. Despite methods in place leading to minimize the number of reworks, they often must implement palliative solutions to manage disturbed flows. We propose in this paper a diagnostic approach based on reworks and flow disturbance indicators to enable them to view the disturbing status of their workshop. This work is a part of a more global work which aim is to develop a flow management control system based on product driven control concept and real-time indicators chosen from those presented in this paper. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2014.