... the capacity of machines from being fully used and incurring in extra costs. Performance measurement Supply chain management Decision support systems Spreadsheets Production planning and control The concept of advanced planning and scheduling (APS) systems arose from join efforts...

... Product recovery Disassembly Sequence‐dependent disassembly line balancing Combinatorial optimization Metaheuristics Ant colony optimization Optimization techniques Production planning and control Product recovery seeks to obtain materials and parts from old or outdated products through...

... operations within organisations. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Manufacturing systems Production planning and control Fit manufacturing Lean manufacturing Agile manufacturing Integrated production systems Economic sustainability is one of the most critical issues facing...

.... n =sample size. h =length of the sampling interval. w =control limit coefficient. Er‐shun Pan can be contacted at: pes@sjtu.edu.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Production planning and control Production processes Control charts Process control...

... with variations in parameters such as size, number of drawers, type of legs, materials and finish. The trend is that the portion of variations from previous products is increasing, which means the company needs to adjust to a made‐to‐order manufacturing system. Modelling Production planning and control...

... for different performance indicators are suggested in this paper. The selection of ORR, dispatching and rework rules in wafer fabrication are discussed in the paper. S.Y. Hsu can be contacted at: jackhsu@ctu.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Shopfloor Production planning...

... Production planning and control Industrial engineering Resource allocation Many authors argue that a poorly managed engineering change process, hereafter denoted EC, may lead to a loss of configuration control and market opportunities, obsolete inventories, materials shortages, manufacturing...

.... The effectiveness of the proposed model is verified through some further discussions and initial computational results. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Product development Time to market Production planning and control Product development is presently faced with most challenging environments due...

...Hermann Kühnle; Hans‐Jürgen Braun; Jörg Bühring Introduces concepts for the integration of Computer‐Aided Process Planning (CAPP) and Production Planning and Control (PPC). Characterizes the current situation regarding integration by a one‐way communication from CAPP to PPC, since a revised link...

... Production planning and control Development Manufacturing The cell level is based on a PC systems (IBM PS-2) workstation and contains all the necessary software for communicat­ ing with PMS. The cell level computer system is called the Operator Manage­ ment System (OMS) and it aids the cell operator...