Welcome to the Tactical Planning Model 1.0

The Tactical Planning Model (TPM) is a discrete-time, continuous-flow model for studying the operation of a job shop that see a stationary input mix of job types. The tool focuses at the level of tactical planning rather than detailed scheduling. TPM characterizes the operational behavior of each work center in the job shop for a given control policy. The control rule sets the production rate at a work center as a fixed proportion of its queue level in each time period by specifying the planned production lead time. For these control rules, TPM gives the steady-state distribution of the production levels at each work center, as well as the distribution of queue lengths.

The TPM application is designed to let you quickly lay out the work centers and the relationships between them in a job shop. You may add and modify work centers in a graphical display of the network of the job shop, or you may modify work center data in a matrix format.

The application is based on the paper "A Tactical Planning Model for a Job Shop,” by Professor Stephen C. Graves of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Operations Research, Vol. 34, No. 4 (July-August 1986), pages 522-531.

Computer Requirements

• Intel 486DX2 or Pentium or greater (Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC chips are not supported)
• Windows 95 -or- Windows NT 4.0 (at least Service Pack 2) -or- Windows NT 3.51 (Service Pack 5)
• 8MB hard disk space (16MB for installation)
• 16MB RAM

Where to Go for Support

MIT LFM does not provide any structured support for the Tactical Planning Model.

This software is provided as-is for your use. Because of the small size of our development team, we rely on our users to bring to our attention issues that we have missed. So please, if you notice any odd behavior (like crashes, odd numbers or screen behavior, etc.), please send us an email immediately with details about the probem.

Tactical Planning Model 1.0 Download

By clicking on the link below (which will take you to the download page), you, the end-user, are agreeing to use the TPM application and its associated files only for academic and non-for-profit purposes, except as specified by the appropriate authorities at the MIT Leaders For Manufacturing program (right now, that's Sean Willems or Professor Stephen Graves).

Click here to download Tactical Planning Model 1.0

Tactical Planning Model is copyright © 1996-7, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All rights reserved. Some components of the Tactical Planning Model application are copyright © 1996-7 John D. Ruark, all rights reserved. All other trademarks are of their respective companies.