Most business owners and managers strive to produce the highest quality products at the lowest production costs. In business terms, "capacity" means the maximum amount of productivity possible.

Manufacturing can be complicated and expensive; that's why there needs to be a method to simplify the process. When looking to minimize production costs, many manufacturers turn to aggregate planning ...

Students will learn applications of operations research methods to practical problems of production planning and inventory control; forecasting; aggregate planning; deterministic and stochastic ...

Effective and efficient manufacturing operations require close integration between long-run planning and short-run production scheduling. A testament to this is the decades-old field of research and ...