The application and benefit of scheduling support tools within atypical manufacturing plant

摘要

The understanding that manufacturing is complex and requiresscientific principles to produce the required results is beginning to berealised and a large number of software products have appeared whichpurport to provide the right approach, the best solution. This paperattempts to guide manufacturers to start at first principles and toderive a list of requirements which will need to be addressed by suchoperational planning tools if they are to be successfully applied inpractice