doi: 10.18178/ijimt.2023.14.3.942
Production Planning and Scheduling Challenges in the Engineer-to-Order Manufacturing Segment—A Literature Study
Ninan Theradapuzha Mathew*
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- Department of Industrial and Materials Science, Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden.
Abstract
Production planning and scheduling is asignificant activity for manufacturing companies that follow anengineer-to-order (ETO) manufacturing strategy. The volatilenature of customer demands and the primary requirement toproduce highly customized products generate numerouschallenges that affect the efficiency of planning and schedulingoperations in engineer-to-order manufacturing. The articlepresents a literature study to identify the main challenges inproduction planning and scheduling in engineer-to-ordermanufacturing. The article also provides a classification of theidentified challenges into four different categories. Thecategorization of challenges strongly suggests replanning orrescheduling as a critical requirement in the engineer-to-ordermanufacturing segment to attain resilience in uncertainenvironments.
Keywords
- Challenges
- engineer-to-order
- literaturestudy
- production planning and scheduling
How to Cite
Ninan Theradapuzha Mathew and Björn Johansson, "Production Planning and Scheduling Challenges in the Engineer-to-Order Manufacturing Segment—A Literature Study," International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 80-87, 2023. https://doi.org/10.18178/ijimt.2023.14.3.942
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