| Article ID: | iaor19946 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Start Page Number: | 211 |
| End Page Number: | 216 |
| Publication Date: | May 1992 |
| Journal: | OR Spektrum |
| Authors: | Krnzle B.S. |
| Keywords: | artificial intelligence: decision support, production: MRP |
The calculation of resource requirements is an essential part of production planning. The use of database systems for this purpose has been discussed at length. Object-oriented database systems offer new possibilities: functional attributes. With functional attributes resource requirements can be calculated by means of an object-oriented database system. In this paper the structure of an object-oriented database system for the calculation of resource requirements will be presented.