Abstract
Manufacturing industries face to diversity of the market where customer orders are more and more complex, meeting their specific needs within short delivery time. In order lo shorten the delivery time, design processes should perform concurrently to the manufacturing processes according to the master production schedule (MPS). Nevertheless, one-of-a-kind production usually needs a design process before production orders are released because production items cannot define in advance. This paper proposes concurrent execution management of design and manufacturing by using design bills. Design bill represents family production items which can be produced by deciding the design sub-problems. The concurrent MPS generation algorithms are illustrated with a simple example. Finally, the paper shows capability of the new design process management and suggests some future challenges.
