Component Commonality in Multistage Production: A Model

What is it about?

This paper focuses on the advancement of venerable manufacturing resources planning models by incorporating the part commonality concept in a multi-product, multi-period and multi-stage manufacturing system under a deterministic situation.

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Why is it important?

The effects of commonality on cost, capacity and requirement schedule are discussed based on the outcomes of the mathematical models executed with the available live data.