Graphical tools for production planning in small medium industries (SMIs) based on pinch analysis

College

Gokongwei College of Engineering

Department/Unit

Chemical Engineering

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

Volume

33

Issue

4

First Page

639

Last Page

646

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Abstract

Small medium industries (SMIs) routinely face supply variations in their production cycle. Such firms are typically characterized by limited resources and insufficiency of funds. Thus, SMIs need simple solutions to cope with the production planning issues. Pinch analysis has been proven as a strategy for planning of efficient use of scarce resources. Recently, it has been extended to various production planning problems. In this paper, a simple novel graphical approach is proposed to address two common production planning problems in SMI's, which are warehouse space allocation and production capacity planning. Two industrial case studies are shown in this paper to illustrate the proposed approach.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1016/j.jmsy.2014.06.001

Disciplines

Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering

Keywords

Production planning; Small business

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