(BQ) Part 2 book "Beyond lean simulation in practice" has contents: Inventory organization and control, inventory control using kanbans, inventory control using kanbans, flexible manufacturing systems, automated inventory management, integrated supply chains,.and other contents. | Part III Lean and Beyond Manufacturing The application studies in part three illustrate sophisticated strategies for operating systems, typically manufacturing systems, to effectively meet customer requirements in a timely fashion while concurrently meeting operations requirements such as keeping inventory levels low and utilization of equipment and workers high. These strategies incorporate both lean techniques as well as beyond lean modeling and analysis. Before presenting the application studies in chapters 10, 11, and 12, inventory control and organization strategies are presented in chapter 9. These include both traditional and lean strategies. Chapter 10 deals with flowing the product at the pull of the customer as implemented in the pull approach. How to concurrently model the flow of both products and information is discussed. Establishing inventory levels as a part of controlling pull manufacturing operations is illustrated. Chapter 11 discusses the cellular manufacturing approach to facility layout. A typical manufacturing cell involving semi-automated machines is studied. The assignment of workers to machines is of interest along with a detailed assessment of the movement of workers within the cell. Chapter 12 shows how flexible machines could be used together for production. Flexible machines are programmable and thus can perform multiple operations on multiple types of parts. Alternative assignments of operations and part types to machines are compared. The importance of simulating complex, deterministic systems is discussed. The application studies in this and the remaining parts of the book are more challenging than those in the previous part. They are designed to be metaphors for actual or typical problems that can be addressed using simulation. The applications problems make use of the modeling and experimentation techniques from the corresponding application studies but vary significantly from them. Thus some reflection is required in .
