The goal of production planning is simply to maintain flow. The idea is to obtain a regular use of company resources with minimal downtime, minimal bottlenecks and a level of output consistent with ...

Optimizing a modern-day manufacturing facility is a complex task. Manufacturers face an overwhelming array of conflicting demands, including reducing stock, improving lead times, increasing asset ...

The challenges that manufacturing ventures face on a daily basis are often related to maintaining a smooth workflow and ensuring that inventory is used efficiently. Businesses in any phase of growth ...

The Project Management Group leverages a proven, phased project management process that helps to ensure that each project achieves its goals and is completed as efficiently as possible. If approved, a ...

If you’ve worked in the maintenance department at a power plant, you know how important planning and scheduling are to success. There’s an old saying that goes, “plan the work, and work the plan.” ...

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Introduction: Workplaces Enter the Age of Intelligence The way we design offices is changing dramatically. What was once the domain of architects, interior desi ...

We consider an integrated job-shop planning and scheduling model. To solve the problem we use a (multi-pass) decomposition approach which alternates between solving a planning problem with a fixed ...

Looking for ways to maximize efficiency and reduce costs, the City of Kelowna has plans to bundle together the design and delivery of numerous urban parks.

Detailed production planning is largely related to efficiency and lean manufacturing practices. It simply involves the careful consideration of variables that affect production. Detailed production ...