A UML model of agile production planning and control system

✍ Scribed by Tunglun Tsai; Ryo Sato

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 724 KB
• Volume: 53
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0166-3615
• DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2003.07.003

✦ Synopsis

Agile production planning and control system (APPCS) is a system for planning, scheduling, procurement, and production control. APPCS plays an important role in the competitive environments, such as make-to-order industries, because it excels in immediate uncertainty processing and then guarantees feasibility of the production plan. The uncertainty is often caused by customers who make a change in the order or by suppliers who change their promised items. The customers or suppliers can notify of the change before it really happens. Upon receipt of the change, APPCS responds immediately to achieve higher service level of performance, better resource utilization, and less material loss.

This paper provides a UML model of APPCS. The proposed model concretely defines the APPCS and makes the immediate planning and scheduling possible. In order to testify the model, both instance of the model and its implementation in a simulator are shown.