Decentralized WIP Oriented Manufacturing Control

Decentralized WIP Oriented Manufacturing Control (DEWIP) is based on decentralized WIP control loops between the production’s workstations. It thus allows the production’s workforce being integrated in the responsibility of attaining logistic targets. The method was developed by Lodding at the Leibniz University of Hanover’s Institute of Production Systems and Logistics in a project sponsored by the German Research Foundation [Lodd-01, Wien-01].