Forecasting of indirect consumables for a Job Shop

14th International Symposium on Advanced Materials

Shakeel, M.^1 ; Khan, S.^1 ; Khan, W.A.^1

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, G.I.K Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, Swabi

23640, Pakistan^1

关键词: Consumables;    Inventory costs;    Job shop;    Leadtime;    Multiple user;    Optimal operation;    Saw-blades;    Stock outs;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/146/1/012053/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/146/1/012053

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

A job shop has an arrangement where similar machines (Direct consumables) are grouped together and use indirect consumables to produce a product. The indirect consumables include hack saw blades, emery paper, painting brush etc. The job shop is serving various orders at a particular time for the optimal operation of job shop. Forecasting is required to predict the demand of direct and indirect consumables in a job shop. Forecasting is also needed to manage lead time, optimize inventory cost and stock outs. The objective of this research is to obtain the forecast for indirect consumables. The paper shows how job shop can manage their indirect consumables more accurately by establishing a new technique of forecasting. This results in profitable use of job shop by multiple users.