Graphical tools for production planning in small medium industries (SMIs) based on pinch analysis

• Main Authors: Lim, Joseph S.H., Foo, Dominic C.Y., Ng, Denny K.S., Aziz, Ramlan Abdul, Tan, Raymond Girard R.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2014
• Subjects: Production planning; Small business; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/4328
• Institution: De La Salle University

Small medium industries (SMIs) routinely face supply variations in their production cycle. Such firms are typically characterized by limited resources and insufficiency of funds. Thus, SMIs need simple solutions to cope with the production planning issues. Pinch analysis has been proven as a strategy for planning of efficient use of scarce resources. Recently, it has been extended to various production planning problems. In this paper, a simple novel graphical approach is proposed to address two common production planning problems in SMI's, which are warehouse space allocation and production capacity planning. Two industrial case studies are shown in this paper to illustrate the proposed approach.