Article ID: | iaor20083695 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 8 |
Start Page Number: | 703 |
End Page Number: | 715 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2007 |
Journal: | Production Planning and Control |
Authors: | Yenradee Pisal, Wuttipornpun T. |
Keywords: | programming: constraints, manufacturing industries, programming: goal |
This paper aims to develop a finite capacity material requirement planning (FCMRP) system based on TOC philosophy (TOC-MRP) for multi-stage assembly factory that has some bottleneck stations. The proposed TOC-MRP system tries to load and schedule operations on bottleneck stations in a manner that they are free of idle time and overtime. The schedules on non-bottleneck stations will be arranged until they are not conflicting with those on the bottleneck stations. The non-bottleneck stations are allowed to have idle time and overtime if necessary. To analyse whether TOC-MRP is effective, it is compared with an FCMRP method that does not adopt TOC philosophy. The experimental results reveal that the TOC-MRP outperforms the FCMRP without TOC philosophy.