Simulation of Workload Control under Period Release Method at the Make-to-Order Environment

An alternative release method-period release which is based on the principles of workload control–is designed in an engineering perspective for the Make-to-order(MTO) environment. Some study results have shown that releasing order only in the beginning of the release cycle–point release method-trigger the order tardiness and resource idle caused by a norm excess for one station. The period release method is proposed to deal with such a problem. Simulation results implicit that the alternative engineering approach is able to reduce gross throughput time and the percentage of tardiness. This paper also discusses the influence on the indicator's change trend of the period release approach's parameter and figures out the influence factors. So there is a possibility for this period approach making adaption to different MTO companies depend on particular situation and reducing the loss of reneging.