Simulation program to study MRP nervousness

Material Resource Planning (MRP) is a common production system used by many of today's manufacturing facilities. When interactions between a manufacturer and supplier become complex, MRP systems sometimes become chaotic, an event called MRP Nervousness. MRP Nervousness occurs when small scheduling updates lead to very large changes in the finished product schedule. A program was developed to allow a user to create an MRP system and derive outputs given certain known MRP system variables and rules. This program will be used in the study of MRP Nervousness.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2002

Authors dc:creator

• Smith, Adiel G. (Adiel Gottlieb)
• Shulenburger, Luke 1979-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Stanley Gershwin.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58527

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/58527