| dc.description.abstract | With the continuous development of technology, traditionally manual works have been
becoming more and more automatic. Most of large or medium-sized companies have
applied Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software into their business and production
activities, but due to its expensive cost, small ones cannot afford for that and still work
manually in several stages, especially scheduling. This paper would like to give a possible
solution for small businesses to try scheduling automatically and know whether it can help
much. There are two main ways, mathematical model and heuristic one which are suitable
for low and medium workload, respectively. The case study was carried out in a small
domestic interior furniture named Hand Décor Co. LTD, particularly in scheduling for
their customized products in two-stage flow shop. Normally, they produce according to
the sequence of customers’ orders, however, when applying these supportive tools with
batch-processing machines of this paper, they have enhanced the performance of
production hanks for diminishing the setup time of distinctive items and arranging job
sequences more reasonably. This was merely implemented on some small companies
which do not have many stages of production and have a suitable number of jobs and
customers. If applied for bigger demands, it would need more improvement and
development to become a complete tool which can perform like a part of ERP systems. | en_US |
