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MAN Turkey improves the performance of its assembly line by managing in-house parts.

Publication: Interfaces
Publication Date: 01-JUL-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: MAN Turkey improves the performance of its assembly line by managing in-house parts.(Practice Abstracts)

Article Excerpt
The goal of "Practice Abstracts" is to present interesting, topical, and novel applications of operations research methodology to a wide range of industrial applications. "Practice Abstracts" are intended to provide Interfaces readers with short (2-4 page) descriptions of the most relevant aspects of operations research-based projects, in a form that is accessible to academics and practitioners in other organizations. Contributions should be sent for evaluation to the editor of "Practice Abstracts," Brian T. Denton, Division of Health Care Policy and Research, Pavilion 3, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, denton.brian@mayo.edu.

Key words: industries: machinery; inventory, production: applications.

We developed an inventory-control policy for in-house parts at MAN-Turkey, determined the optimum locations of items in the warehouses, and implemented a kanban system for moving some in-house parts. The project team consisted of five senior students in Bilkent University's industrial engineering department, who are guided...

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