TABLE OF CONTENTS Hartmut Stadtler
Darmstadt University of Technology, Department of Production & Supply Chain Management, Hochschulstra e 1, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
Assuming that the master plan has been generated, we can now derive detailed plans for the different plants and production units. In the following we will describe the underlying decision situation (Sect. 10.1) and outline how to proceed from a model to a solution (Sect. 10.2). Some of these steps will be presented in greater detail, namely model building (Sect. 10.3) and updating a production schedule (Sect. 10.4). Whether Production Planning and Scheduling should be done by a single planning level or by a two-level planning hierarchy largely depends on the production type of the shop floor. This issue will be discussed together with limitations of solution methods in Sect. 10.5.
Production Planning and Scheduling aims at generating detailed production schedules for the shop floor over a relatively short interval of time. A production schedule indicates for each order to be executed within the planning interval its start and completion times on the resources required for processing. Hence, a production schedule also specifies the sequence of orders on a given resource. A production schedule may be visualized by a gantt-chart (see Fig. 10.4).
The planning interval for Production Planning and Scheduling varies from one day to a few weeks depending on the industrial sector. Its "correct" length depends on several factors: On the one hand it should at least cover an interval of...
