Reflections on production planning and control (PPC)

REFLECTIONS ON PRODUCTION PLANNING AND CONTROL (PPC) Invited Paper

The paper examines the current state of Production Planning and Control (PPC), identifies some technical and systems changes that have occurred over recent years and links these with the requirements being placed on companies by the market. PPC is being asked to respond effectively to these internal and external changes by being more dynamic and providing better control of resources and deliver...

the effects of planning on accuracy and complexity of iranian efl students’ written narrative task performance

this study compared the different effects of form-focused guided planning vs. meaning-focused guided planning on iranian pre-intermediate students’ task performance. the study lasted for three weeks and concentrated on eight english structures. forty five pre-intermediate iranian students were randomly assigned to three groups of guided planning focus-on-form group (gpfg), guided planning focus...

Specificity for reach planning in the human PPC.

Marco Ciavarro1,2,3 and Ettore Ambrosini2,3 1Department of Human and General Physiology, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy, 2Laboratory of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience and Imaging, University G. d’Annunzio, 66013 Chieti-Pescara, Italy, and 3Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies, Foundation University G. d’Annunzio, 66013 Chieti, Italy...

Developments in Holonic Production Planning and Control

The field of Holonic Manufacturing was initiated in the early 1990's to address the upcoming challenges for manufacturing operations in the 21 century. It is intended to support for highly responsive organisations by providing a modular building-block or "plug and play" capability for developing and operating a manufacturing production system in order to support a more responsive organisation. ...

Multi-Agent-Based Production Planning and Control