| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L09295/01 |
| Title: |
IMPROVING THE ACHIEVABILITY OF PLANS AND SCHEDULES BY CONTROLLING RELIABILITY AND COMPLEXITY |
| Principal Investigator: |
Smart, Dr JH |
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| Department: |
Engineering Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Oxford |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 March 1996 |
Ends: |
30 April 1999 |
Value (£): |
107,429
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Manufact. Enterprise Ops& Mgmt |
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| Aerospace, Defence and Marine |
Transport Systems and Vehicles |
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Despite twenty-five years of research and many thousands of papers on planning and scheduling, factories are still faced with persistent problems of poor scedule adherence, poor customer deliveries and high levels of work in progress. The solution to these problems will not come from piecemeal investigations of parts of the manufacturing process, but by gaining a thorough understanding of the whole business process and the sources of unreliability and complexity in the management of the factory. The project will investigate the manufacturing process of two major UK manufacturers, applying recent work on quantifying the costs of poor reliability and identifying the complexity of the systems. Discrete event simulations of the manufacturing processes of the two manufacturers will be written to investigate alternative layouts and communication processes within the organisations. The project will yield new results on measuring the complexity of manufacturing, simulations of the processes, new methods or representation under uncertainty, and methods to identify the most cost effective changes in factory planning to produce industrially feasable methods of planning and scheduling under varying conditions of available capacity.
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http://www.ox.ac.uk |