Best Manufacturing Scheduling Systems
Ashfaque Ahmed - August 29, 2005

Introduction

All manufacturing planning and scheduling systems can be broadly grouped into two kinds: static and dynamic. While static systems cannot deal with changing conditions prevalent on shop floors, dynamic systems are able to deal with them to varying degrees, depending on the system's inherent capabilities. Static scheduling systems can be deployed at manufacturing sites where orders are repetitive and there are minimal variations among the products and different quantities ordered from one planning period to another. Generally the manufacturing site is either small or the number of products being manufactured is limited. The list of customers is almost fixed and new product introductions are few...