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assets are often utilized inefficiently due
to poor planning and scheduling of
production, leading to significantly
increased costs, longer production times,
increased inventory, decreased asset
utilization, and slow response time and poor
delivery performance. To compete,
manufacturers need to produce a variety of
products; to introduce and accommodate new
products without disruption; to deliver on
short notice with high reliability; and to
maintain a high level of asset utilization.
Furthermore, this needs to be done in a
production and market environment that is
dynamic and uncertain. This
program seeks to understand: how business
objectives and a systems perspective should
drive scheduling and logistics control; how
to develop and use a systems - thinking
approach to plan, implement and measure
material flow and production scheduling over
a multi - step manufacturing flow or supply
chain; and, how to develop rational
approaches that globally optimize, rather
than locally optimize production flow over a
supply chain within dynamic, uncertain
manufacturing environments. It appears that
of all factory operations, research into
scheduling and logistics appears to be the
most popular as well as potentially most
beneficial area.
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