Evaluating capacity management tactics for a legacy manufacturing plant

Agha Iqbal Ali, Ahmed Ghoniem and Alexander Franke
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Agha Iqbal Ali: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
Ahmed Ghoniem: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
Alexander Franke: Oliver Wyman, Zurich, Switzerland

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2014, vol. 65, issue 9, 1361-1370

Abstract: Robust capacity improvement tactics, namely acquisition of assets and enhanced flexibility in product manufacturing, that alleviate mismatches between required and available capacity are revealed by data analytics. Improvement brought about by these tactics as measured by two performance metrics, production makespan and product availability, is assessed using optimization methodology. This paper demonstrates the value of analysing demand and product specification data to inform capacity re-calibration in an S&P 500 company in the chemical industry. The tactic recommended for implementation, which yielded up to a doubling of the capacity, emerged from an empirical analysis of data for five prototypical planning periods.

Date: 2014
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