Manufacturing resource planning: An information systems model
Abstract This paper presents Manufacturing Resource Planning, an information system that will enable the developing and monitoring of strategic plans. Incorporation proven material and capacity requirements planning techniques, strategic planners can determine readily the impact of their plans on the manufacturing resources of the company. Decision making is more coordinated because all managers work from a common data base. However, the attainment of this level of planning sophistication is costly not only in capital outlays for computer software and hardware but also in the time to train users. But those firms who have successfully incorporated this integrated approach to strategic planning feel strongly that the end results justify the expenditures.
Research of future network management has made considerable progress these years. The development threads and research routes have begun to take shape, but some key issues remains need depth study. This paper presents current research status after a deep survey, and then selects three key issues to put forward our viewpoint on the aspects of management principles, pattern, and methods. This paper firstly presents a QoE-oriented management principle. Then, introduces a distributed and inherent management pattern which is the In-Network Management proposed by FP7 4WARD Project. After that, presents a set of self-management functionalities that should be exhibited in the future network management. In the end, we provide a brief summary of the paper and an outlook of the future studies.