| Most companies implementing the advanced manufacturing technologies such as MRP, JIT, CIM, and FMS are experiencing failures. This high failures can be attributed to the inadequate planning of the organizational and human issues rather than the nature of the technology. However, most simulation studies in order to overcome the limits and to integrate MRP and Kanban systems still focused on the performance of shop-floor control. Shop-floor is a microsystem of production plan and control system (PPCS). Integrative models should be developed to synthesize manufacturing issues for the better understanding of interrelationships and contributions to the overall business strategy.;Regardless of types of PPCS, there are two interacting structures: production and labor interaction structures, and material ordering and supplier interaction structures. It was found that integrated MRP and Kanban system (IMKS), and integrated Long Pull system (ILPS) are not the exception. Also, ILPS performs better than IMKS and several suggestions for the integration of MRP and Kanban systems were made. |
