Project-Oriented Approach to Production Planning and Scheduling in Make-to-Order Manufacturing

Abstract

In this paper, we present a unified framework for production planning and scheduling in make-to-order manufacturing. Both planning and scheduling problems are captured as resource-constrained project scheduling problems. The actual models and solution techniques are different at the two levels. Hence, we also suggest an aggregation method that provides the connection between planning and scheduling. The viability of the approach is demonstrated by some experimental results on large-scale industrial problem instances.