Make-to-Order Assembly Management

Purchasing .Fabrication Assembly Distribution Figure 1.1: Multi-Level Manufacturing System for Make-to-Order Products specific resources of a type, i.e., a certain machine or a single worker, the determination of the sequence operations are processed on a ma chine, and the assignment of start and finish times to operations. We will modify this framework to be specifically suited for multi level make-to-order manufacturing systems. We assume that the facil ity design issue is settled, i.e., the location and the layout of the facility as well as the capacity ofthe three main resource types of the company are determined. These resource types are the engineering department, the fabrication department, and the assembly department. The engineering department is concerned with the construction of new products as well as the modification and customization of ex isting products. This entails the generation of engineering documents such as blue prints for manufacturing. The capacity of the engineering department is determined by the the count and qualification of engi neers and by the availability of construction devices such as computer aided design (CAD) systems etc.

Hierarchical approach is applied to make-to-order assembly problems for the first time

Klappentext

The book is concerned with production planning problems arising in the context of make-to-order assembly. After introducing the general decision context, a survey of the relevant literature in the fields of assembly management, make-to-order manufacturing, and project scheduling is given. The main part of the book provides a hierarchical planning approach with three levels: order selection, manufacturing planning, and operations scheduling. The decision problem of each level is carefully elaborated and stated in terms of a mathematical programme. Suited solution procedures such as list scheduling, tabu search, and linear programming are proposed and experimentally tested.

Inhalt
1 Introduction.- 1.1 Basic Problems and Decision Levels.- 1.2 Outline of the Book.- I Preliminaries.- 2 General Issues.- 3 Literature Survey and Classification.- II Decision Models.- 4 Hierarchical Framework.- 5 Order Selection.- 6 Manufacturing Planning.- 7 Operations Scheduling.- III Solution Methods.- 8 Order Selection Methods.- 9 Manufacturing Planning Methods.- 10 Operations Scheduling Methods.- 11 Research Opportunities.- A Instance Generation.- A.1 General Concepts.- A.2 Order Selection Instances.- A.3 Manufacturing Planning Instances.- A.4 Operations Scheduling Instances.- B Notation.- B.1 Notation for Order Selection.- B.2 Notation for Manufacturing Planning.- B.3 Notation for Operations Scheduling.- List of Abbreviations.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.