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Load-Based POLCA: An Assessment of the Load Accounting Approach

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POLCA (i.e. Paired-cell Overlapping Loops of Cards with Authorization) is a card-based decision support system for production control developed to support the adoption of Quick Response Manufacturing. In POLCA, the flow of jobs through the production system is controlled through a combination of release authorisations and production control cards - POLCA cards. In this paper, we discuss a load-based version of the POLCA system (LB-POLCA), which draws on recent insights from the Workload Control literature. In this context, a question arises: what is the load (e.g. in hours) that a POLCA card should represent? Using simulation, we demonstrate that insights from the Workload Control literature cannot be straight transferred to the POLCA system. Results further demonstrate that significant performance improvements for all card acquisition rules considered in this study can be realized when the POLCA card represents the operation time the job imposes to the second station of the pair.

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Acknowledgments

This study had the financial support of COMPETE: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2013.

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  1. Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Av. do Empresário, 6000-767, Castelo Branco, Portugal

    Nuno O. Fernandes

  2. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Institute of Physical Internet, Jinan University, 519070, Zhuhai, People’s Republic of China

    Matthias Thürer

  3. Department of Management Science, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YX, UK

    Mark Stevenson

  4. Department of Production and Systems, ALGORITMI Research Unit, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

    Nuno O. Fernandes & S. Carmo Silva

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  1. DEI/FCT, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Baixo Mondego, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. Nova IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Maria Correia

  3. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  4. DSI/EEUM, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  5. DIMES, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

    Sandra Costanzo

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Fernandes, N.O., Thürer, M., Stevenson, M., Carmo Silva, S. (2017). Load-Based POLCA: An Assessment of the Load Accounting Approach. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 570. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56538-5_40

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