Title: Integrated decision support system for manufacturing value chain

Authors: Bhushan S. Purohit; Vikas Manjrekar; Vivek Singh; Bhupesh Kumar Lad

Addresses: Intelligent Manufacturing Planning Lab, Discipline of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India ' AVTEC Private Limited, Pithampur, India ' AVTEC Private Limited, Pithampur, India ' Intelligent Manufacturing Planning Lab, Discipline of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India

Abstract: The increasing level of automation in manufacturing calls for a decision support system which simultaneously optimises multiple decisions of a value chain. Current work leverages integrated planning approach for the same and integrates four key functions viz. production, maintenance, quality, and material supply at the parametric level. Such a comprehensive integration of various disjoint functions is not reported in past and thus forms the novelty of current work. Further, a composite performance index called 'overall operations rating (OOR)' is explicated to simultaneously accommodate multiple performance indicators of any manufacturing shop floor. For a specific environment, proposed approach demonstrates a reduction of around 15% in operating cost and improvement of around 12% in OOR as compared to conventional operations planning approaches. Further, the application of the demonstrated approach is extended to a broad range of manufacturing environment which generalises the results.

Keywords: scheduling; maintenance; inspection; decision support systems; integrated decisions making.

DOI: 10.1504/IJVCM.2020.109227

International Journal of Value Chain Management, 2020 Vol.11 No.3, pp.199 - 227

Received: 06 Apr 2019
Accepted: 16 Sep 2019
Published online: 02 Sep 2020 *

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