Research in Material Logistics
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Production scheduling and control have long been the subjects of                extensive research.  In many cases, production scheduling becomes so            complex that ill-advised decisions are made, resulting in higher costs          and longer delivery times.  The purpose of this work is to build,               document, and validate, in real factories of three types, a usable,             useful software system to cope with these complexities.  The approach           entails three phases:  production planning in multi-stage ("flexible            machining") systems, incorporating routing choice; planning for                 uncertainty; and short-term scheduling.  The outputs will include               models which provide a master production plan (typically                        deterministic); models which determine the sizing and location of               safety stock in the production system (to provide against stochastic            changes in demand, supply, or yield); and provision for linkage of the          models into a system.  The work will be tested and evaluated by                 simulation, using computer graphics to display Gantt charts,                    inventory-time plots, spatial flows of materials, and monitoring of             variables.
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