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Industrial and Production Engineering Final Year Topic: Investigation of Kanban Card Count Sensitivity

This Industrial and Production Engineering final year project investigates comparing fictional replenishment loops under different card limits, connecting a bounded production decision to explicit data, constraints and reproducible comparison criteria.

Why choose this project topic?

The topic gives comparing fictional replenishment loops under different card limits a practical industrial-engineering scope without assuming access to an entire factory. Comparing work in progress, throughput and stockout time supports process diagrams, simulations or evidence reviews and helps explain why an apparent improvement may depend on its assumptions.

How do the selected production-system policies or assumptions affect work in progress, throughput and stockout time when comparing fictional replenishment loops under different card limits?

Choose a fictional production case, permitted dataset or harmless approved teaching task, then agree the workload and comparison criteria for comparing fictional replenishment loops under different card limits.

Proposed project objectives

  1. 01Define the production process, evidence and constraints required for comparing fictional replenishment loops under different card limits.
  2. 02Model synthetic demand and process times, vary card counts and test shortages and delayed returns.
  3. 03Compare work in progress, throughput and stockout time and report uncertainty, trade-offs and limits of application.

A suggested research approach

Model synthetic demand and process times, vary card counts and test shortages and delayed returns. Identify synthetic inputs and obtain permission for any real observations or participant tasks. Keep a documented baseline, inspect sensitivity to uncertain assumptions, and compare work in progress, throughput and stockout time without treating a modelled improvement as a verified factory outcome.

What you will need

  • Synthetic demand traces
  • Kanban simulator
  • Fictional process parameters

Keep your project scope clear

A classroom simulation does not demonstrate universal suitability of lean methods.

Industrial and Production Engineering project chapter outline

Use this outline as a starting point. You can edit the chapter titles to match your department’s format during setup.

  1. Chapter 1Introduction
  2. Chapter 2Literature Review
  3. Chapter 3Theory and Methodology
  4. Chapter 4Results and Applications
  5. Chapter 5Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations

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