A production planning and scheduling framework for smaller manufacturing enterprises

Author

Halsail, D.N. ; Muhlemann, AP ; Price, DHR

Author_Institution

Manage. Centre, Bradford Univ., UK

fYear

1993

fDate

17-20 Oct 1993

Firstpage

33

Abstract

Earlier research involved the development of a planning and control system the key needs of smaller manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) (A.P. Muhlemann et al., 1984; 1985 1986; 1990). A contributory factor to the success of this was the development of a general model of the production process which underpinned the database design. The paper reports a number of additional stages in this work, where the basic system is being developed further to cover, in a more user friendly manner the scheduling capabilities of the system. After reviewing work completed on establishing user requirements in the area of scheduling, and some of the concepts which have been used to underpin the development, the paper goes on to describe how the system will be constructed. Areas for further work are identified

Keywords

computer aided production planning; manufacturing data processing; production control; database design; production planning; production process model; scheduling capabilities; scheduling framework; smaller manufacturing enterprises; user requirements; Computer aided manufacturing; Control systems; Databases; Decision support systems; Job shop scheduling; Materials requirements planning; Production management; Production planning; Production systems; Research and development management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1993. 'Systems Engineering in the Service of Humans', Conference Proceedings., International Conference on

Conference_Location

Le Touquet

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0911-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1993.390679

Filename

390679