摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and method for planning production schedules, which keeps a product delivery time and equally assigns a manufacturing period for each product to be completed. SOLUTION: An apparatus and method for planning production schedules sets a planning frame P shown in the figure 6, which has a time duration for the period starting from the earliest production start date to the latest production completion date, based upon data for a production start date and a delivery date of products by using a means 12 to set the time duration for the production schedule. The apparatus and method sets the time duration long enough to bundle units of a plurality of activities comprising manufacturing processes for the product, also sets the earliest production start date and the latest production completion date for the planning frame P by a means 14 to set the starting and ending dates, and furthermore, assigns the unit of the activities of the planning frame P by a means 15 to assign the activity.</p> |