...Karl Belk; Will Steels Scheduling systems can be developed to model all significant processes in a business and desk top computers have the power to generate integrated schedules using powerful mathematical techniques to realise optimised throughput. This paper describes the background...

... actions much closer in time to the point where the decision is taken. In other words, manufacturing planners are constantly confronted with new production situations that will call for specific answers. Chaos Logistics Mass customization Scheduling Simulation Turbulence The rapid...

...Mac Exon‐Taylor Provides a short introduction to the concept of enterprise management. Enterprise management is concerned with ensuring that certain key business processes (manufacturing planning, scheduling and demand allocation) work in a much more co‐ordinated manner, so as to be more responsive...

...Mac Exon‐Taylor Production scheduling is being focused on increasingly as a critical company activity. Consequently, it is becoming commonplace to hear of finite capacity scheduling systems being linked to existing MRP‐type systems, to provide a more detailed and flexible scheduling mechanism...

...David Little; John Kenworthy; Peter Jarvis; Keith Porter Work undertaken in collaboration with BPICS, Cincom (UK) Ltd and ICI Engineering supported by funding from the EPSRC (CDP). The project reviewed planning and scheduling procedures in over 30 industrial companies over a two‐year period...