Title :
TOC or LP? [production control]
Author :
Qiu, Mabel ; Fredendall, Lawrence ; Zhu, Zkiwei
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Bus. & Econ., Longwood Coll., Farmville, VA, USA
fDate :
8/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors address the production scheduling problem from two fundamentally different approaches, the theory of constraints (TOC) and linear programming (LP). LP is a complicated mathematical approach while TOC is much less quantitative in nature. Both approaches were applied to the real operations data from a fibre manufacturer. It was found that the schedule produced by TOC is very similar to the one generated by LP
Keywords :
constraint theory; linear programming; production control; fibre manufacturer; heuristics; linear programming; production control; scheduling; theory of constraints;
Journal_Title :
Manufacturing Engineer
DOI :
10.1049/me:20020411
