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<h2 id="card-control-policy">Card control policy</h2>
<p>In a CONWIP system, a card is shared by all kinds of products.  However, Duenyas (1994) proposed a dedicated card control policy in CONWIP and he stated that this policy could perform as a multiple chain closed queuing network.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Factory_Physics/0332Uhnv">Factory Physics</a></i></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Material_requirements_planning/avnRvuqm">Material requirements planning</a> (MRP)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Just-in-time_manufacturing/h4dNAj42">Just-in-time manufacturing</a> (JIT)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Kanban/B6FThvRJ">Kanban</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>Spearman, Mark L. and Michael A Zazanis, "Push and Pull Production Systems: Issues and Comparisons", <i>Op. Res.</i>, Vol40(3), pp 521–532, May–June 1992.</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Spearman, M., Woodruff, D. and Hopp, W. (1990) CONWIP: a pull alternative to kanban. International Journal of Production Research 28, 879-894 <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Marek, Richard P. et al., Understanding the fundamentals of Kanban and CONWIP pull systems using simulation, Proceedings of the 2001 Winter Simulation Conference [1] <a href="http://www.informs-sim.org/wsc01papers/122.PDF" target="_blank">http://www.informs-sim.org/wsc01papers/122.PDF</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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