ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the influence of rework in the Production Control Strategies (PCSs), under an made-to-order (MTO) job-shop context. It aims toconducts the research via a discrete event simulation and performed statistical analysis on the data. It describes the implementations of the workload control (WLC) and Kanban system (KS). The chapter provides a detailed description of the shop floor under study, given that several degrees of directionality are evaluated in the job-shop. It describes the computational experience by simulation analyses, as well as a subsequent discussion of statistical results. The chapter considers a shop floor composed of eight work stations. It uses simulation to study the performance of the KS and the WLC systems in multiple scenarios. The results show the advantages and disadvantages of the KS with respect to the WLC approach in an MTO job-shop environment subject to reworking.
