Production Control in Practice. A Situation-Dependent Decisions Approach. Edition No. 1

Table of Contents

Part 1

1. Logistics Planning and Control
1.1 Logistics
1.2 Logistic Planning and Control

2. Logistic aspects of Production Planning and Control in Production Systems
2.1 The logistic concept
2.2 Terminology
2.3 Production Control

3. Horizontal and Vertical decomposition
3.1 Horizontal decomposition
3.2 Vertical decomposition
3.3 Example

4. Planning and Control in Production Units

5. Framework for logistic planning and control in production systems
5.1 General framework
5.2 Position of this book
6. Types of release triggers
6.1 Just-in-Time versus Just-in-Case
6.2 Push versus Pull in logistics

Part 2

1 Decoupling Point Control
1.1 Decoupling Point Control - an introduction
1.2 Performance Measures for Decoupling Point Control
1.3 Demand Characteristics
1.3.1 Demand Pattern
1.3.2 Order Size
1.3.3 Relaxation of Assumptions

2 Instantaneous Demand, Local Stock
2.1 General discussion of instantaneous demand and local stock decoupling point control systems
2.2 When to order?
2.1.1 Continuously monitoring
2.1.2 Periodically monitoring
2.1.3 The reorder level
2.3 How much to order?

3 Time Phased Demand, Local Stock
3.1 General discussion of MRP Systems
3.1.1 Material Requirements Planning (MRP-I)
3.1.2 Dealing with uncertainty
3.1.3 Bill of Material versus Bill of Distribution
3.1.4 Manufacturing Resource Planning Systems (MRP-II)
3.2 When to order?
3.3 How much to order?

4 Systems using Echelon Stocks
4.1 General discussion of systems using global norms
4.1.1 Discussion on ROP and MRP
4.1.2 Echelon Stock Control Systems
4.1.3 Line Requirements Planning
4.2 When to order?
4.3 How much to order?
4.4 Discussion on Echelon Stock

5 Assortment Analysis

Part 3

1 General discussion of production control decisions

2 (Continuous) process-wise production
2.1 General description
2.2 Main control attention points
2.3 Production control aspects for (continuous) process-wise production
2.3.1 Sequencing
2.3.2 Capacity allocation
2.3.3 Work order release
2.4 Application

3 Mass assembly production
3.1 General description
3.2 Main control attention points of mass assembly (or flow) production
3.2.1 Pure flow production
3.2.2 Variants of pure flow production
3.2.3 Quantitative models for analyzing the effect of buffers
3.2.4 Cross training
3.3 Production control aspects for mass assembly production
3.3.1 Sequencing
3.3.2 Capacity allocation
3.3.3 Work order release
3.4 Application

4 (Repetitive) Small series production
4.1 General description
4.2 Main control attention points of (repetitive) small series production
4.2.1 Fundamentals of Queueing Theory
4.2.2 Throughput time-related aspects
4.2.3 Lead time-related aspects
4.2.3.1 Due date determination rules
4.2.3.2 Internal versus External due date
4.3 Production control aspects for (repetitive) small series production
4.3.1 Throughput time
4.3.1.1 Sequencing
4.3.1.2 Capacity allocation
4.3.1.3 Work order release
4.3.2 Lead time reliability
4.3.2.1 Sequencing
4.3.2.2 Capacity allocation
4.3.2.3 Work order release
4.4 Application

5 (Repetitive) Project shop production
5.1 General description
5.2 Main control attention points of (repetitive) project shop production
5.3 Production control aspects for (repetitive) project shop production
5.3.1 Sequencing
5.3.2 Capacity allocation
5.3.3 Work order release/project scheduling
5.4 Application

Authors

Henny Van Ooijen Eindhoven University of Technology. Corné Dirne Fontys University of Applied Sciences.