Production Planning, Scheduling and Control

The Production Planning, Scheduling and Control Course will cover the following topics and more:

Introduction to production planning and control

• Purpose of production planning, order sequencing, production scheduling and production control
• Manufacturing operation process - production philosophy
• Advantages of production control
• Sources of production control
• Characteristics of modern manufacturing management - MRP II process

Framework of production planning and control

• Problems faced by production managers in diverse manufacturing units
• Resolving the issues
• Strategies for production planning and control

Master Production Scheduling (MPS)

• Forecasting and demand management
• Master production scheduling (MPS) activity
• Symptoms of MPS
• Aggregate planning
• Work exercises

Capacity Requirement Planning

• Capacity management and planning
• Types of capacity planning
• Factors affecting facility and capacity planning

Materials Requirement Planning (MRP II)

• MRPII overview
• Independent and dependent demands
• Materials planning process

Inventory Control (IC)

• Inventory planning involving management and control
• Finished goods inventories control
• Calculations on lot order sizing

Production Scheduling and Technique

• Scheduling objectives
• Job scheduling –Forward/Back scheduling
• Input/output control
• Dispatching rules –FIFS, ODD, SPT. Etc
• Critical ratio rule

Theory of constraint (TOC) principles

• What is TOC?
• Bottleneck and non-bottleneck resources
• Generic TOC principles
• Drum-buffer-rope (DBR) scheduling

Just-In-Time Manufacturing

• Principles of JIT
• Identify the causes of JIT wastes
• JIT manufacturing key activities and its features
• JIT implementation and its draw back.
• Continuous improvement
• The primary causes of inventories
• Schedule released and planned areas

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