期刊名称：CORE Discussion Papers / Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
出版年度：2001
卷号：2001
出版社：Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
摘要：In this paper, we discuss the literature on production planning ap-
proaches in the process industry. Our contribution is to underline the
differences, as well as the similarities, between issues and models arising
in process environments and better known situations arising in discrete
manufacturing, and to explain how these features affect the optimiza-
tion models used in production planning. We present an overview of
the distinctive features of process industries, as they relate to produc-
tion planning issues. We discuss some of the difficulties encountered
with the implementation of classical flow control techniques, like MRP
or JIT, and we describe how various authors suggest to solve these
difficulties. In particular we focus on the concept of “recipe”, which
extends the classical Bill of Materials used in discrete manufacturing,
and we describe how the specific features of recipes are taken into
account by different production planning models. Finally,we give a
survey of specific flow control models and algorithmic techniques that
have been specifically developed for process industries.
关键词：Production flow control, process industry, blending models
