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Production Planning
Introduction
The intention of this project is to demonstrate the function of
production planning in a non - artificial environment. Through this simulation
we are able to forecast, with a degree of certainty the monthly requirements for
end products, subassemblies, parts and raw materials. We are supplied with
information that we are to base our decisions on. The manufacturer depicted in
this simulation was actually a General Electric facility that produced black and
white television sets Syracuse, New York. Unfortunately this plant is no longer
operational, it was closed down and the equipment was shipped off to China. One
can only wonder if the plant manager would have taken Professor Moily's class in
production management the plant still might be running.
Modern production management or operation management (OM) systems first
came to prominence in the early half of the twentieth century. Frederick W.
Taylor is considered the father of operations management and is credited in the
development of the following principles.
a. Scientific laws govern how much a worker can produce in a day. b. It is the
function of management to discover and use these laws in operation of productive
systems. c. It is the function of the worker to carry out management's wishes
without question.
Many of today's method's of operation management have elements of the
above stated principles. For example, part of Material Requirement Planning
system (MRP) is learning how workers to hire, fire, or lay idle. This ...