Manufacturing process planning and production scheduling functions are usually performed sequentially, disregarding the dynamic nature of manufacturing system. Integrated process planning and scheduling (IPPS) is to combine both the process planning and scheduling problems in the consideration, with the aim to improve the flexibility and adaptability of the actual process plan and the schedule ...

As companies increasingly customize their products, move towards smaller lot production and experiment with more flexible customer/supplier arrangements, they increasingly require the ability to respond quickly, accurately and competitively to customer requests for bids on new products and efficiently work out supplier/subcontractor arrangements for these new products. This in turn requires the...

Process planning and scheduling used to be two very separate processes. However, owing to the recognition of the intricate relationship between them, recent work has focused on integrating the two processes. The use of flexible process plans in scheduling allows more flexibility in production and thus gives substantial cost savings. It also increases the solution space of the optimisation probl...

production planning and scheduling are the most important issues of the production industries, which have a considerable influence on the productivity of the production systems. although, production planning and scheduling are in two different medium-term and short-term decision making levels, there are a very close relationship between them. ignoring this important feature in production planni...

As companies increase the level of customization in their products, move towards smaller lot production and experiment with more flexible customedsupplier arrangements such as those made possible by Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), they increasingly require the ability to (1) quickly, accurately and competitively respond to customer requests for bids on new products and (2) rapidly and effect...