Article ID: | iaor199195 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 29 |
Start Page Number: | 34 |
End Page Number: | 38 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1988 |
Journal: | Production and Inventory Management Journal |
Authors: | Maruchek Ann S., Peterson David K. |
Keywords: | manufacturing industries |
This is the first of two papers surveying nearly 60 articles that describe microcomputer-based applications to manufacturing planning and control. Since most of the applications use general-purpose software like spreadsheets, they are of interest to small manufacturers who are constrained by a lack of resources from implementing more elaborate planning and control systems. [See next abstract.]