Tool support for production planning management - casting industry case

• Autor(a) principal: Prasad, Prateeksha
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/14171
• topic: Production Planning; Management Integrated System; Casting Industry; Classification Systems; Multi Criteria; Production Strategy; Planeamento da Produção; Sistema Integrado de Gestão; Industria de Fundição; Sistemas de Classificação; Multicritério; Estratégia de Produção; Gestão Industrial

The present work, which took place within Sakthi Portugal, SA emerges with the need of defining the necessities of an Integrated System within the scope of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to deal with the requirements for making a Production Plan. During the internship, a description of the plan of action that needs to be followed to obtain the production plan was made. In order to achieve this, a literature review regarding the subjects related to Integrated Systems, the Logistic functions and the various production scheduling approaches which are available related to the industry was made. In addition, a study was conducted on the classification systems available currently. Following this, the environment as well as the processes taking place has been described. A brief discussion regarding the functions of the Logistics department where the internship was carried out has been discussed. The current production planning strategy was studied and the difficulties which they face has been described. Based on the understanding of the production planning process which is adopted, it was found that a considerable amount of time was spent on clerical tasks. It was also noted that there occurred a clash of objectives of the departments concerned with Production. In order to resolve these issues, the management required an Integrated System. Since there are a vast number of products, the need for a classification in order to improve the plan is discussed. A multi-criteria classification which incorporates the major activities related to production is made. The objective of the classification system was to integrate the various departments within the company. The present work included the requirements analysis of the Integrated Management System on which the Production plan can be made. The system contains the necessary information as well as constraints to make the Production Plan. Another outcome resulted from the multi-criteria based classification system proposed with the focus in supporting the allotment of the products to the molding machines. This document also analyses propose improvements to the production plan with respect to the product classification criteria.