Phillip Morris USA

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Company: Philip Morris, U.S.A. – Large Consumer Products Company
Product Used: Capacity Planning and Scheduling System
Objectives:Develop computer tool to:

• Schedule the production operations on a daily basis
• Use for long term capacity planning

Results:

• Prototype scheduling system delivered in 4 months
• Linked to external data bases
• Successfully duplicated weekly schedule in 15 seconds
• Improved current schedule by optimizing total changeover time
• No limit on scheduling time horizon