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Workload control (WLC) is a production planning and control concept designed for complex manufacturing systems. Several Decision Support Systems (DSS) have been developed based on WLC concept. These require a number of parameters to be specified. However, it is recognised by academics and practitioners that parameter specification for these DSS is a difficult task. For a better understanding of manufacturing systems performance behaviour under the influence of two important order release parameters, namely the release frequency and the planning period, a simulation study was carried out. This was done for a system operation under two well known workload accounting methods for WLC: the load conversion method and the corrected aggregated load method. The results are instrumental to the understanding of the manufacturing system performance and the DSS parameterisation in particular manufacturing situations.
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Fernandes, N.O., Carmo-Silva, S. (2010). A Simulation Study of Workload Accounting Methods for WLC. In: Quintela Varajão, J.E., Cruz-Cunha, M.M., Putnik, G.D., Trigo, A. (eds) ENTERprise Information Systems. CENTERIS 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 109. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16402-6_29
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