Hierarchical planning of production, machine loading and cyclic scheduling in a polyester plant | |
| Author | Cheung, See Yan Joseph |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no. IE-88-04 |
| Subject(s) | Scheduling (Management) Production planning Polyester industry |
| Note | A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for t he Award of the Degree of Master of Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. IE-88-04 |
| Abstract | One of the reasons why we use hierarchical planning method is that it can break down complex problems to simpler sub -problems. The plant under study has a bottleneck department. This department faces a multi-item, single stage, irrelevant machines problem. Exact production-sch eduling plus machine-allocation problem in this setting has no elegant computationally feasible solution in literature. A hierarchical planning system is developed for this department. The system is divided into t hree levels. The first level allocates machine capacity to t he production of items. After this machine loading procedure, the problem is simplified to multi- item, single stage, single machine problem. Level 2 makes cyclic schedule for the machines individually. These master schedules are themselves operative. Level 3 is optional. It can be used to verify the solution found a t Level 2 or adapt the master schedules for to cope with the dynamic demand situation . An experimental illustration is given for showing how to implement the proposed system. |
| Year | 1988 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. IE-88-04 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology |
| Department | Other Field of Studies (No Department) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Industrial Engineering (IE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Awate, P.G.; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Fujiwara, Okitsugu ;Oudheusden, Dirk L. van ; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Japanese Government; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1988 |