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Problem: Manufacturing systems face challenges like unreliable capacity utilisation, scheduling inefficiencies, and poor reliability. Traditional methods fail to balance high output and on-time delivery, leading to excess inventory, delays, and operational bottlenecks. Solution: Traditional approaches struggle to balance high output with timely delivery. Innovative solutions like Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) and pull-based scheduling focus on improving production flow by prioritising constraints, synchronising schedules with demand, and using buffers to absorb variability. Benefits: These methods dynamically manage work-in-process inventory, ensuring optimal resource utilisation. The result is enhanced production efficiency, reduced delays, lower inventory levels, and consistent, reliable performance in dynamic environments.

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Trace the evolution of manufacturing techniques and how they tried to resolve the conflict between capacity utilization and reliability over the years.  This article highlights the Drum-Buffer-Rope model and goes on to show how DBR evolved to resolve this dilemma in different manufacturing enviroments

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