Ford Motor Company Implements Integrated Planning and Scheduling in a Complex Automotive Manufacturing Environment

We would like to acknowledge the contribution from many people at Ford Stamping, Material Planning and Logistics, and Information Technology (IT) for their continual support of this project. Specifically, we would like to acknowledge Edward Zvoch, James Higgins, Craig Morford, Mark Catri, and Robert Quick from Stamping, Kasey Kasemodel and Serguei Vassiliev from IT, and Giuseppe Rossi and Erica Klampfl from Ford Research and Advanced Engineering, for their invaluable contributions. We also gratefully acknowledge the work of Kamal Aman and Willie Cheong at the University of Waterloo in implementing the test version of the code. This work was supported by the Ford–University of Michigan Alliance, the National Science Foundation, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.