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AKSOE: Arbeitskreis Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

AKSOE 5: Social-, Information-, and Production Networks I

AKSOE 5.3: Talk

Monday, February 25, 2008, 17:00–17:30, EW 203

Local and Global Dynamics of Production and Supply Networks under Mixed Production Strategies — •Reik Donner¹, Johannes Höfener^1,2, Kathrin Padberg¹, Stefan Lämmer¹, and Dirk Helbing³ — ¹TU Dresden, Andreas-Schubert-Str. 23, 01062 Dresden, Germany — ²MPI for Dynamics of Complex Systems, Nötznitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany — ³ETH Zürich, Universitätstr. 41, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland

The analysis and control of dynamic material flows in traffic, production, and logistics is a subject of contemporary interest. In this contribution, we introduce a generalised input-output model of commodity flows that allows to study the dynamics of production and supply networks under different production strategies. It is demonstrated that production units subjected to a temporally varying demand and/or supply show an amplification of these variations for both push and pull strategies. Using an extended linear stability analysis, we identify under which conditions a consideration of mixed push-pull strategies leads to a suppression of these effects. Our corresponding results have important implications for the strategic planning and control of manufacturing networks.