Mechanical Engineering

Process planning and scheduling functions strongly influence profitability of manufacturing a product, resource utilisation and product delivery time. Several researchers have addressed the need for integration of process planning and scheduling (IPPS) functions to facilitate flexibility and for improving profitability of manufacturing a product, delivery time as well as creation of realistic process plans that can be executed readily on shop floor. This article presents a state-of-the-art review on IPPS. Three common integration approaches, non-linear approach, closed loop approach and distributed approach, are discussed with their relative advantages and disadvantages and reported research is classified accordingly. It also identifies several future research directions.

... The Authors. Bikram Jit Singh, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India. ... About the authors. Bikram Jit Singh is a Senior Lecturer in charge of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Jasdev Singh Sandhu Institute of Engineering and Technology Kauli, Patiala, India. ...