Production Planning and Its Impact on Quality in the Automotive Industry

Recently, the automotive industry tends toward the economy of scope, as it gives cost reduction’s advantage, but its manufacturing’s management is difficult. Planning several products in the same line has an impact on the products quality and output if it’s not performed correctly. However, the objective of this paper is to develop a mathematical model for production planning in the operational horizon. This model includes several automotive industry constraints in terms of capacity, dynamic customer orders, and similarities between references, cycle time and the balance between shifts.