MAPPING THE STATE OF THE ART IN THE DOMAIN OF CAPACITY PLANNING

Partner: Škoda Auto

field: AUTOMOTIVE

Škoda Auto a.s. is the largest car manufacturer in Czech Republic. The company headquarters is in Mladá Boleslav, where is the largest manufacturing plant as well. It has been part of the Volkswagen Group since 1991. Škoda Auto a.s Toolshop deals with the development, design and manufacturing of tools for car production.

Map and describe the State of the Art in the area/domain of capacity planning that can be used by the partner for future optimization, augmentation, and extension purposes of the capacity planning processes that are currently being used in the tool production department.

State of the Art document was created that describes the most used methods and techniques in the area of capacity planning. The SoA describes the methodology in several areas. The first one focuses on the area of capacity management and theory of constraints which describes the factors that restrict the performance and output of a system and identifies and solves the potential bottlenecks. The second part deals with business operational planning, describing schedule management, personal planning, sales planning, and manufacture planning. The last part focuses on the area of resource planning and material planning methods that deal with the demands in terms of orders, their sizes and their prediction.

The created SoA document represents the general introduction for the area of capacity planning processes to provide an overview of the methods and approaches that are being used in this domain. This result will be used as a stepping stone for a more focused approach where these methods will be mapped and utilized for the optimization and extension of real-life processes that are currently being used in the partner’s tool production department.