An Approach to Synthesis of Knowledge in Production and Operations Management and its Open Problem

Abstract

Most of planning problems in production and operations management have multiple heterogeneous decision features as shown in production scheduling problem of which item should be processed on which ma-chine, at what time, and how much. This paper discusses the methodology that we have presented to attain simultaneous global optimization of those multiple heterogeneous decision features from the viewpoint of the unity of knowledge. The paper suggests that our methodology is categorized into "generation" or "formation" in the unity of knowledge and then discusses the potential of the gener-ation in POM technology together with its advantages and open research subjects.