Industry 4.0 enabling manufacturing competitiveness: Delivery performance improvement based on theory of constraints

Due date control (DDC) can be regarded as one of the competitive abilities of an enterprise. Based on advanced connected technologies implemented in Industry 4.0, DDC can collect processing information accurately and in real time to be integrated with production systems. It is an intelligent event-driven feedback control that can be designed to control process plans. In this study, a work-in-process alert system framework is developed based on a...