Capacity Planning in the Process Industry
Purpose
In production planning for process industries, capacity leveling functions are used to commit resources. The objective is to achieve optimal utilization of resources and carry out detailed sequencing.
Note
In production planning for the production industry the resources are generally called work centers.
Capacity leveling for production planning in the process industries corresponds to that in discrete manufacturing in many respects. To find out how capacity leveling is executed, see Capacity Planning in Shop Floor Control .
Constraints
These functions for considering and adjusting setup times are not available for capacity leveling in the process industry (PP-PI), that is, for capacity leveling of process orders and planned orders that refer to master recipes. This covers the manual adjustment of the setup time and also the functions that are based on the evaluation of a setup matrix .