Data mining in production planning and scheduling: A review

The paper reviews about the data mining tasks and methods, and its application in production planning and scheduling. Data mining will be reviewed in four classifications of data mining systems according to the kinds of databases mined, knowledge to discover, techniques utilized and the applications adapted. This paper also reviews in production planning and scheduling that focused in time frame range either short- to mid-range or long-range planning. In production planning, there are a lot of planning such as process planning, strategic capacity planning, aggregate planning, master scheduling, material requirements planning and order scheduling. From these activities different problems are arise because of the different time, product and environment of production.