Decision support for the scheduling of subcontract manufacture
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
ISSN: 0144-3577
Article publication date: 1 October 2000
Abstract
Presents work that addresses the issue of decision support for the operational management of subcontract manufacture. Theoretical study has been combined with empirical research and practical industrial investigation with regard to distributed manufacturing systems which incorporate subcontract manufacturing arrangements. There has been a particular focus on the study of resource planning and scheduling for subcontract manufacture in SMEs in the UK electronics assembly industry. This work led to the analysis, modelling, implementation and test of an object‐oriented advisory system to assist with scheduling for this domain which demonstrated the utility of a proposed concept of captivity‐based scheduling. Contemporary research in this area and existing commercial decision support solutions for manufacturing planning, scheduling and control in SMEs have been explored. Concludes that current commercial software systems for subcontract manufacture are underdeveloped. Further argues that software development tools and platforms are increasingly available to facilitate the creation of practical decision support systems for distributed organizational forms of manufacture.
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Citation
Webster, M., Muhlemann, A.P. and Alder, C. (2000), "Decision support for the scheduling of subcontract manufacture", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 20 No. 10, pp. 1218-1237. https://doi.org/10.1108/01443570010343753
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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