SHAPING PRODUCTION CHANGE VARIABILITY IN RELATION TO THE UTILIZED TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

Manufacturing a variety of final products in small (short) production series – requires the production systems to be flexible and to adapt almost instantly to the quickly changing customer requirements. Dynamics of changes and no predictability of system’s state in time t+1 lead to increase of the operational costs. It particularly affects those companies which are producing goods using make – to – order method in short series. This article describes research around a product for which 3 production technologies exist. The examined flow stream variants take into account a resources load with the tasks resulting from clients orders placed within Δt time. The goal of this article is to establish the parameters being the main determinants of production structure fluctuations.