capacity planning

The planning and control of regeneration processes, especially those with complex investment goods, comprises a high level of requirements. In order to efficiently design capacity planning and tuning despite fuzzy load information, this paper presents a database model that serves as ascertainment of this information.

In this article an approach for capacity planning and control in highly volatile markets is presented. The main steps in cutting capacity cost are: • Ensure highly aggregated capacity groups • To maximize the customer oriented work ahead window by applying the customer order characteristic • To determin the long term capacity plan with few capacity levels • To apply a short term capacity adjustment tool with corrected due dates according the customer order characteristic

Mastering high product variance and life cycle dynamics of demand can be an important competitive advantage in assembly. The main lever to this is a smart structuring of capacities and their assignment to assembly resources, such as lines, stations etc. The true benefit of this lever is hardly exploited due to poor support by established design methodologies. The article presents possible approaches to structure capacities in assembly and shows their exemplary use in practice.