Model of Production Planning and Control with the Integration of WLC and TOC Mechanism

Abstract

In the mixed-production context of make-to-stock (MTS) and make-to-order (MTO), the manufacturing system becomes more complex for comprehensive balance of multiple objectives, including resource utilization, work in process (WIP), on-time delivery and throughput. To deal with this complexity, a dynamic production plannning and control (PPC) model with the hybrid of workload control (WLC) and theory of constraint (TOC) is presented. While the proposed three-tiered hierarchy construction model is relatively similar to WLC model, but the way in which the workloads are controled has changed dramatically. The order acceptance deals with issues of order review and delivery setting in order to balance the overall resource capacity and requirements that is necessary for on-time delivery. The order release deals with issues of release mechanisms and rules in order to control the flow of work to the production floor that is necessary for WIP and resource utilization.And the scheduling deals with issues of bottleneck identicification and task sequencing in order to protect the bottleneck capacity that is necessary for throughput.