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5. Conclusion
Downstream flow management is efficient and simple to implement, but more sophisticated in its preparation.
But its implementation implies a major cultural change in the industrial world, especially among engineers: no longer taking refuge behind rigorous, computerized and intellectually reassuring planning imposed on customers, to admit the permanent variability of demand, adopt "fuzzy" management (variation ranges) and accept the intrusion of customers as real drivers of production.
There's a long way to go between the two approaches.
This method competes with known flow management procedures:
pure and simple" planned or program-based production (used by one of the Japanese manufacturers); in essence, this approach does not...
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