Production control : a structural and design oriented approach
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Production control : a structural and design oriented approach
（Manufacturing research and technology, 11）
Elsevier, 1990
Available at 15 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Over the past 15 years the authors have been engaged in projects with many firms to analyse and redesign production and inventory control systems. The main purpose of this analysis and redesign was the reduction of inventory and costs, improvement of delivery performance, and simplification of the organization involved in production and inventory control. During these studies the authors became convinced that the knowledge available on the design of control systems places too much emphasis on techniques and methods, whereas the main concern should be to establish a proper control structure. This control structure should identify the main decision functions, their goals, their relationships, and the organizational position to which these decision functions should be assigned. For each decision function in the control structure, a global planning and decision procedure should be established.
This book gives a comprehensive overview on the elements of a good production control structure. It examines approaches for possible structures, and how to select an adequate structure for a particular production situation. The book consists of two parts: The first part covers basic terms and ideas regarding the design of production and inventory control systems in general. The second part examines four case studies from essentially different production areas.
The volume is intended for postgraduate students in such fields as production and inventory control, logistics, information systems and practitioners who are working in this field on a high organisation level.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction. Recent developments. Discussion of approaches. Basic design aspects. Overview of the content of the book. 2. Production Units and Goods Flow Control. System boundary. Basic concepts. Production units, work orders. Goods flow control. Selection of GFC-items. An engineer-to-order machine manufacturer: a case study. The case: production units and production phases. PU operational constraints: general discussion. The effects of the PU operation constraints for the engineer-to-order situation. 3. Goods Flow Control Structure. Capacity aspect and item aspect within goods flow control. Coordination of sales and production. The case situation: Aggregate and detailed level within GFC. Coordination of sales and production. Remarks. Aggregate planning. 4. Decision Making and Budgeting. Decision-making in the area of goods flow control. Budget control. Towards an integration of goods flow control and budget control. 5. The Role of Models. Operational models. Performance models. Structure. Complex performance models. 6. Information Systems. MRP II standard software packages. Information systems for customer-order driven production. The information systems' consequences of the new control concepts. An information system for the case described in Chapters 2 and 3. Appendices: Systems software. Calendars. Other types of items, defined in MRP-packages
- planning bills-of-material. Data structure diagramming notations. The forecast consumption technique. 7. Overview of the Cases. The control situations. 8. Production Control in a Complex Component Manufacturing Firm. Description of the production system. Goods flow control analysis and redesign. The initial structure of the assembly department. Problem analysis and definition of basic solution. 9. Structuring Production Control in a Steel Tube Manufacturing Firm. The steel tube manufacturing process. The initial production control system. Problem analysis. The new production control structure. 10. Production Control in a Consumer Electronics Factory. Existing production control system. Internal flexibility. Release stretches/production units. Aggregate production planning. Product structure and marketing structure. Operational coordination of sales and production. Information systems' consequences. Appendices. 11. Structuring the Production Control System in a Maintenance and Repair Shop. The repair shop. Analysis of the control problem. Aggregate production planning. Material coordination and production unit control. References. Subject Index. An Introduction and Conclusion are included in each chapter.
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