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Capacity - Planning and Utilization

This document discusses capacity planning techniques in manufacturing production control (MPC) systems. It describes various capacity planning methods like capacity requirements planning, finite capacity scheduling, and advance production scheduling. It also discusses how capacity planning fits into the overall MPC system and how different techniques can be used to estimate capacity needs, schedule jobs, and monitor utilization over short, medium, and long-term time horizons. Specific examples are provided of capacity planning applications at different companies.

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Capacity - Planning and Utilization

This document discusses capacity planning techniques in manufacturing production control (MPC) systems. It describes various capacity planning methods like capacity requirements planning, finite capacity scheduling, and advance production scheduling. It also discusses how capacity planning fits into the overall MPC system and how different techniques can be used to estimate capacity needs, schedule jobs, and monitor utilization over short, medium, and long-term time horizons. Specific examples are provided of capacity planning applications at different companies.

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Capacity Planning and

Utilization
The Role of Capacity Planning in
MPC Systems
 MPC is often seen as encompassing two
major activities : planning/control of
materials and planning/control of capacities
 Capacity planning technique have as
primary objective the estimation of capacity
requirements, sufficiently far enough into
the future to able to meet those
requirements.
 A second objective is execution
Capacity Planning in the MPC
System
Long range

Sales and Demand


Resource planning
operation planning management

Rough-cut Master production


capacity planning scheduling

Medium range

Capacity
Detailed material
requirement
planning
planning

Short range

Finite loading

Input/output Shop-floor
Vendor systems
anaylisis systems
Capacity Planning and Control
Technique
 Capacity Planning Using Overall
Factors (CPOF)
 Capacity Bills
 Resource Profiles
 Capacity Requirements Planning(CRP)
Scheduling Capacity and Materials
Simultaneously
 The capacity planning that we have
examined thus far make this assumption :
their major difference is only in
sophistication of the plans produced.
 The materials plans produced by classic
MRP systems are based on batches of
materials traveling between work centers
for subsequent operations, then flowing
through inventories in order to be
subsequently processed/integrated into
higher level part numbers.
Finite Capacity Scheduling
 An extension of the approach use by
capacity requirements planning (CRP)
systems, with major difference : CRP
calculates only capacity needs–it makes no
adjustments for infeasibility.
 Finite scheduling systems simulate actual
job order starting and stopping to produce
a detailed schedule for each shop order and
each machine center.
Finite Capacity Scheduling
 The approach where a work center is
scheduled, job by job, is called
vertical loading
 A different approach used in finite
scheduling is horizontal loading
Finite Scheduling with Product
Scheduling : Using APS Systems
 Classic MRP systems take a long time
to complete jobs or else to have
plenty of capacity available.
 Many firms are turning to finite
loading systems that schedule the
entire product as entity → advance
production scheduling (APS)
Management and Capacity
Planning/Utilization
 Capacity Monitoring with
Input/Output Control
 Managing Bottleneck Capacity
 Capacity Planning in the MPC System
 Choosing the Measure of Capacity
 Choice of a Specific Technique
 Using the Capacity Plan
Example Application
 Capacity Planning at Montell USA,
Inc.
 Capacity Planning at Applicon
 Capacity Planning with APS at a
consumer Products Company

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