... negotiation method for arriving at OADs. Sujan Piya can be contacted at: sujan@squ.edu.om © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Negotiation Production planning Aspiration level Contingent order Order acceptance Many companies are shifting their production from the traditional...

...Mario Padron; Pedro Resto; Jennifer Muñoz Purpose Resource capacity and product changeovers must be both considered in the preparation of a realistic production plan. The purpose of this paper is to present a heuristic for enforcing resource availability and the accompanying changeover realities...

... Stahre can be contacted at: johan.stahre@chalmers.se © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Information Critical path analysis Production planning Product development To meet global competition in dynamic and fast moving markets, the frequency of new product introductions...

... increases exponentially in mass customization. In a situation of assembly‐to‐order production, production planning and control involve not only product variety, but also process variety. It is imperative to synchronize product and process variety in a coherent manner. Design/methodology/approach...

...Rajesh Piplani; Sen Ann Puah Production planning using simulation has been gaining popularity as manufacturing routings become more complicated. However, a detailed simulation model that contains hundreds of machines and thousands of operations is far too large and complex to work with. The thesis...

... environment, which can particularly be suitable for the small‐medium enterprise needs. A number of guidelines emerged, mainly in the areas of customer requirements definition and commercial configuration of customer order, supply and production planning, and intermediate and final project evaluation. ©...

...Zubair M. Mohamed; Mohamed A. Youssef Considerable research literature exists on production planning, distribution, and investment models. In most cases they have been treated independently in an environment of low inflation rates. Unfortunately, work extending these problems to multinational...

..., there is a major focus on vertical marketplaces dealing with systematic transactions of direct inputs. There is also a focus on private marketplaces, although the results would not be any different for the other types of ownership structure. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Supply‐chain management Production...

... a customer. The core facility runs the virtual layout establishment approach to find out the appropriate member facilities. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Manufacturing Virtual reality Factories Production planning minimising cost of the material handling system, maximising utilisation...

... approach. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Flexible manufacturing systems Master production schedule Production scheduling Production planning The flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is a manufacturing system which is similar to but somewhat different from conventional manufacturing systems...

...Mingyuan Chen Inventory control models deal with production planning in order to minimize inventory and shortage cost, while cellular manufacturing analysis mainly addresses how machines should be grouped and parts be produced. A mathematical programming model is developed using an integrated...

...David Little; Matthew Peck; Ralph Rollins; Keith Porter For the past 20 years production planning and control has been dominated by manufacturing resource planning (MRPII) and its antecedents. The authors are completing case study based research that is aimed at developing novel planning...

... together. While the impact of each experimental parameter is found to be significant, the impact of flexibility greatly overshadows those of the other parameters. These results support further examination and more normative understanding of how flexibility and better production planning and control may...

... Production planning Technology As a result of these requirements, the methodology finally used was exploratory and standardised. It utilised a combination of a questionnaire to produce quantitative data and in‐depth interviews and a workshop to produce rich qualitative data, which complemented each...

...Mario T. Tabucanon; Dentcho N. Batanov; Sanjay Basu The selection of part types for simultaneous processing in a Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) is one of the most responsible phases of the short‐time production planning. The batching approach to part type selection is more popular in practice...

... concerning the type of system best fitting certain generic situations is fairly simple and doing so would probably produce very little argument from a conceptual point of view. Clearly, when demand is both stable and predictable there is very little need for a sophisticated system for production planning...

... Manufacturing Production planning Scheduling Integration of the two functions of assembly planning and scheduling can potentially introduce significant improvements in a manufacturing system. These improvements can be measured in terms of increased machine utilization, which translates to better...

.... These include substantial savings on overheads, a marked increase in productive hours, and promising improvement in productivity. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Information systems Integration Models Organizational change Production control Production planning It has been several decades since...

... to be expressed in terms of innovative product development. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Concurrent engineering Database management Information systems Organizational structure Product development Production planning Concurrent engineering (CE) is recognized as an effective means for industry...

... on a machine‐paced line; the members of this team were given a significantly higher level of work autonomy than before. Provides a detailed account of the two projects. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Assembly Electronics industry Production planning Scotland Work planning IMPLEMENTING JUST-IN-TIME...