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 strateg...