Abstract
Manufacturing’s business is to convert customer orders into products. To do this, manufacturing systems are required to process quickly individual orders with specific customer options. That is, they must be agile. Such responsiveness can only be achieved through a total coordination of the elements of the production process and with a clear understanding of the effect of each order on the manufacturing systems’ performance. Essentially, it requires a common understanding of manufacturing processes and an ability to analyze quickly what happened in the past in order to forecast and control what will happen in the future. Planning and scheduling systems are at the heart of this understanding and have the unique ability to translate what has happened in the past and, through analysis, develop schedules to meet the large and changing demands on a manufacturing system. This chapter describes the use of FACTOR (Pritsker Corporation, 1992) for production planning and scheduling purposes.
FACTOR is a registered trademark of Pritsker Corporation.
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Pritsker, A.A.B., Snyder, K. (1997). Production scheduling using FACTOR. In: Artiba, A., Elmaghraby, S.E. (eds) The Planning and Scheduling of Production Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1195-9_11
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