PRODUCTION PLANNING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREPARING PRODUCTION PLAN

• Main Authors: HIROTA, MASASHI, OSAGAWA, KENICHI, MORIOKA, TSUTOMU, UETANI, HIDEAKI, IIMURO, HIROYUKI, KURIHARA, HIDESHI, TANAKA, YASUHIRO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 14.05.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION ORPROCESSING OF GOODS; COMPUTING; CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; PHYSICS; REGULATING; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE

In a production planning method, among those production step types the product procurement periods of which satisfy the desired time of delivery, allocation to production steps with longer product procurement periods is performed, in order from orders with shorter desired times of delivery; or, in a production planning method, expectation values and request values are compared, and allocation is performed; or, in a production planning method, bottleneck steps are considered, and production space and production periods are allocated. It is possible to provide a production planning method and system which are objective even for products subject to trends in popularity and demand for which fluctuates, and conventional production planning for which relied on human experience and intuition and was not thought to be adequately handled by a computer system. Also, allocation of production space upon receipt of an order can be performed efficiently and promptly.