Article ID: | iaor19942210 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 34 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 167 |
End Page Number: | 178 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1994 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
Authors: | Sarin Subhash C., Das Sanchoy K. |
Master scheduling is concerned with synchronizing production activities with product demand, while also coordinating the use of different resources. It will thus be a key schedule in any control system intended for application in an integrated manufacturing environment. This paper combines earlier methodologies, in master scheduling and aggregate planning, to develop a master aggregate schedule (MA-schedule) model, which is better equipped to meet the needs of modern manufacturing facilities. The MA-schedule aggregates capacity, time, and products; models routing and capacity flexibility; considers the availability of material transporters; and has a multi-criteria objective function. The schedule is formulated as a large-scale mixed integer program. Experimental results with some test problems are reported, and the impact of the new features is studied.