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Material flow
About: Material flow is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3050 publications have been published within this topic receiving 36844 citations. The topic is also known as: material stream.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that reducing supply chain uncertainty increases responsiveness and thereby benefits bottom line performance as assessed via total cycle time reduction, by using the uncertainty circle to focus on the sources to be eliminated.
Abstract: In this paper, we show that reducing supply chain uncertainty increases responsiveness and thereby benefits bottom line performance as assessed via total cycle time reduction. We term this effect as the uncertainty reduction principle. To enable uncertainty reduction we use the uncertainty circle to focus on the sources to be eliminated. We also show that these sources of uncertainty can react and magnify in a flywheel effect caused by poor supply chain management. A supply chain audit methodology is described for identifying and codifying uncertainty. The proposition advanced herein is that smooth material flow leads to and statistically correlates with uncertainty reduction. Examples are given of good real‐world supply chain practices thus identified and subsequently improved. Transferability of the uncertainty reduction principle is assured by establishing readily assimilated “best practice” guidelines via the study of “exemplar” operating characteristics.
112 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the repeated adiabatic shear band formation that takes place at sufficiently large cutting speeds in a number of materials during high-speed machining operations with the more well-known formation of a single shear bands that often takes place in dynamic torsion tests on these materials.
110 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a unique three-dimensional computational fluid dynamic electrochemical model for open pore cellular foam material as a flow plate, comparing it to a double channel flow plate and experimental results, researching its application as an alternative to conventional flow plate materials in proton exchange membrane fuel cells.
108 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of different steel production routes and present the modeling, scheduling and interrelation regarding material and energy flows in the iron and steel industry by thoroughly reviewing the existing literature.
107 citations
TL;DR: The solution methodology is illustrated by analyzing a production system where each machine has multiple up and down states associated with their quality characteristics and the method is proposed as a tool for performance evaluation of general Markovian continuous-flow systems with a finite buffer.
105 citations