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• 1 General concepts

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• What does effectiveness mean for customers, staff and company owners?

  Customer: quality of product, quality of service; 
  staff: quality of labour;
  Company owners: market position, business resilience;

• Give the definition of efficiency vs. Effectiveness, make it visual in a graph

  Without effectiveness a company will not survive without efficiency it may survive.

• What is the departure point or efficiency and effectiveness?

  The value proposition (compare Jumbo with Aldi);

• What is the aim of planning & scheduling?

  Aims to organize that the value proposition is reached efficiently and feasibly given the companies capabilities.

• What [2] things do planning & scheduling adress?

  • The organization of renewable resources (Supply);
  • All hierarchical levels of control; 

• On what [2] things are planning & scheduling based?

  • Customer demand (forecasts);
  • Technological/engineered process plann (how to manufacture); 

• Planning & Scheduling is a trade-off between?

  Managing variability and managing complexity.

• What is the definition of Push planning?

  Pushes production based on forecasts.

• 2 MPC

• 2.1 Evolution MPC

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• What is the industries evolution shortly explain

  Industry 1.0 mechanization, steam power and weaving loom; 
  Industry 2.0 mass production, assembly line, electrical energy;
  Industry 3.0 Automation, computers and electronics; 
  Industry 4.0 Cyber-physical systems, IoT, networks;

• What is the evolution of MPC in practise?

  - Hardware automation 
  - Design and process planning (CAD, CAPP, rapid prototyping) 
  - Manufacturing planning and control systems