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영어

Manufacturing planning and control (MPC) systems concerns planning and controlling the manufacturing process, which includes materials, machines, people, suppliers. An effective MPC system can provide substantial competitive advantage for a company in its markets and to support overall company strategy. But in Korean manufacturing companies, planning and scheduling is a frustrating and overwhelming experience. Most of the people continue attacking the problem with their own experiences and their own native intelligence, and the outcome is unfortunately a failure. In this paper, two simple scheduling models are introduced to illustrate the effectiveness of the formal scheduling system over the one managed by human experiences. These systems are applied to the real problems in two manufacturing firms and the results of applications are provided. We also give an implication of these case studies.