Lot-sizing and flow production in an MRP-environment

In the paper methods are developed to analyze a production process for professional equipment with advanced electronic and mechanical features. The starting point of the analysis is to find ways for production control and production organization which maintain and even strengthen the advantages of the MRP-system, but also mend the disadvantages to a large extent. The main advantages which could be further improved are the lead times for customer orders and the inventories of buy-parts and subassemblies. The disadvantages which should be mended are high costs of order releases, materials handling and data processing