Practical Production Control: A Survival Guide for Planners and Schedulers

This concise yet comprehensive "how to" reference provides practitioners the skill set required to meet the real-world daily challenges of effective production control. It explains, for example, how the scheduling task can be decomposed and organized; how the production control department can be structured; how to hire, train, and evaluate schedulers; and how software tools can augment the scheduler's skill, plus much more.