A Capacity Planning Model in the TFT-LCD Production Chain

Author

Lin, James T. ; Chen, Tzu-Li

Author_Institution

Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, National Tsing-Hua University, 101, Section 2, Kuang Fu Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan 300, Republic of China. e-mail: itlin@ie.nthu.edu.tw

fYear

2007

fDate

27-29 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The paper studies the capacity planning problem in the TFT-LCD production chain. Due to two significant trends, the capacity planning decision gradually becomes an important strategic issue to which TFT-LCD industry paid attention. First is the increase of product types which causes a wide range of product groups, such as mobile, monitor, notebook, TV and industrial display are produced. The second trend is the advances of new technology which cause multiple generations of technologies coexist in each manufacturing stage and production site. This paper proposes a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) to formulate the capacity planning which considers many practical characteristics and constraints in TFT-LCD production chain. A heuristic algorithm is developed to solve the MILP model.

Keywords

Capacity planning; Costs; Displays; Heuristic algorithms; Manufacturing industries; Mixed integer linear programming; Monitoring; Production; TV; Thin film transistors; Capacity Planning; Mixed Integer Linear Programming; TFT-LCD;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 2007. SOLI 2007. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA, USA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1118-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1118-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383956

Filename

4383956