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Production schedule

Meaning in industrial engineering & manufacturing, with examples

nounCore term

In industrial engineering & manufacturing, production schedule means: A plan that shows which products will be made, in what quantity, on which line or machine and when, usually for the coming days or weeks.

In Turkish: üretim programı, üretim çizelgesi, üretim planı

How it is used

Planners create, update, release and freeze the production schedule; supervisors follow it. You can be on schedule, ahead of schedule or behind schedule. Rush orders and breakdowns often force a change to the schedule.

Example sentences

  1. The production schedule for next week is frozen, so new orders will start on the 14th.

  2. We are two days behind the production schedule because of the mold repair.

Common collocations

  • weekly production schedule
  • freeze the schedule
  • behind schedule
  • update the production schedule
  • master production scheduleA plan that states how many of each finished product will be made in each period, usually week by week, and drives material and capacity planning. Shortened to MPS.
  • capacityThe maximum amount a machine, line or plant can produce in a given time, for example 1,200 units per shift.
  • MRPShort for material requirements planning: a method, usually run in software, that uses the production plan, bill of materials and stock levels to work out what to buy or make and when.
  • demand forecastAn estimate of how many units customers will order in future periods, based on past sales, customer plans and market information.

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