Strategies for Production Control

Perfect accuracy and performance are needed in today's production systems. In response to this need, several approaches to production control have been developed and publicized over the past 2 decades. Material requirements planning (MRP) and manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) have been d...

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Published in:Production and inventory management journal 1992-07, Vol.33 (3), p.36
Main Authors: Giauque, William C, Sawaya, William J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Characteristics
Costs
Functions
Inventory
Inventory control
Just in time
Manufacturing resource planning
Material requirements planning
Production controls
Production planning
Schedules
Stocks
Theory of constraints
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Summary:Perfect accuracy and performance are needed in today's production systems. In response to this need, several approaches to production control have been developed and publicized over the past 2 decades. Material requirements planning (MRP) and manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) have been discussed and implemented widely, with varying degrees of success. Just-in-time (JIT) systems have also received wide recognition, largely as a result of the success ascribed to such techniques in manufacturing operations in Japan. Optimized production technology (OPT), also called management by the theory of constraints, has likewise received a good deal of attention. A case study is presented to illustrate how basic characteristics of each approach can be combined to take advantage of strengths from each approach. The results indicate that no one production-control technique dominates. Each has strengths and weaknesses, and each seems appropriate in some situations.
ISSN:0897-8336