Model Development Of Single Unit Machine Capacity Measure For Production Planning And Control

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2009-05
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Ong Yung, Chieh
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
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Production Planning and Control (PPC) is concerned with planning and controlling all aspects of manufacturing, including managing materials, scheduling machines and people, and coordinating suppliers and key customers. Providing the capability to satisfy current and future demand is a fundamental responsibility of operations management. The important characteristic of PPC is concerned with to determine capacity levels over short and medium terms in aggregated terms. This research focuses on developing a Machine Capacity Model for single unit machine capacity measure. The model development consists of three main development phases constructed using analytical mathematical equation derived from operational parameters and translated into a common computer programming presented as spreadsheet template. The First Phase involves in identifying and categorizing the independent variables. The Second Phase develops the model variables by adopting the independent variables. The Third Phase presents on the development of final decision model variables. The model built in self-check function being verified to assure true and logic input value. Validation scenarios are designed to test model is flexible, credible and logic to aid in study factors affecting Effective Capacity (EC) of any unit process. EC able to apply in detecting capacity constraint and can be adapted to check on and generate machine procurement planning. The model development does not require any extra cost to purchase any expensive software or facility. Computational approaches of the model have the requisite flexibility to yield solutions under different circumstances. Therefore these advantages increase the industrial acceptance and practical level.
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Model Development Of Single Unit Machine Capacity Measure , Production Planning And Control
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