Ford Motor Company Implements Integrated Planning and Scheduling in a Complex Automotive Manufacturing Environment

Ada Y. Barlatt (), Amy Cohn (), Oleg Gusikhin (), Yakov Fradkin (), Rich Davidson () and John Batey ()
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Ada Y. Barlatt: Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo N2L 3G1, Ontario, Canada
Amy Cohn: Industrial and Operations Engineering Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Oleg Gusikhin: Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan 48121
Yakov Fradkin: Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan 48121
Rich Davidson: Information Technology, Ford Motor Company, Allen Park, Michigan 48101
John Batey: Stamping Business Unit, Ford Motor Company, Woodhaven, Michigan 48183

Interfaces, 2012, vol. 42, issue 5, 478-491

Abstract: Ford Motor Company has designed, developed, and implemented a collective system of decision support tools, supply chain visualization methods, and optimization techniques to aid its planning and scheduling in a complex automotive manufacturing environment. Although originally developed particularly for stamping plants, the system can also be applied in other manufacturing environments where setup times play a dominant role. By enabling substantial improvements in workplace planning and production scheduling, the implementation of this system has resulted in significant reductions in premium freight charges, overtime wages, and inventory costs.

Keywords: cyclic schedule; manufacturing; heuristic; integer programming; workforce planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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