programación y control de la producción a muy corto plazo

English translation: short-term production planning and control

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Spanish term or phrase:	programación y control de la producción a muy corto plazo
English translation:	short-term production planning and control
Entered by:	Richard Hill

19:44 Jul 19, 2012

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Spanish term or phrase: programación y control de la producción a muy corto plazo

The text deals with "Aggregate plans" (planificación agregada) and "master production schedules" (programa maestro de producción) and states in a paragraph that goes into no more detail that (more or less) ...Once operations have been planned and specified in a schedule, it is necessary to detect and correct deviations between the actual performance of tasks and objectives accomplished and those initially defined as part of "programación y control de la producción a muy corto plazo".

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eliotj

short-term production planning and control

Explanation:
If there is a definite need to stress the "muy" then "immediate term" could work?

The author discusses an expert system designed to help companies in the short-term production planning and control in supply net.
http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=12137

Application of customer/supplier relations on decentralized short term production planning and control in automotive industries
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=276533

"short-term production planning and control" http://tiny.cc/bblphw

"immediate term planning" http://tiny.cc/tilphw

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short-term production planning and control

Richard Hill

planning and control of (the) short-term production

macimovic

planning and control of just-in-time production

Ben Miller

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planning and control of (the) short-term production

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macimovic
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short-term production planning and control

Richard Hill
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planning and control of just-in-time production

Explanation:
Due to the lack of a satisfactory answer, I would like to tentatively suggest an idea. This phrase might be referring to the 'just-in-time' production process philosophy, but by a different name. Without context I can't be sure, but 'just-in-time' production seeks to avoid storing materials and components at any stage, and therefore requires close attention to planning and control in the very short term (according to Ryan Grabosky, succeeding with this method requires “the right material, at the right time, at the right place, and in the exact amount”.)

The literature (see references) will refer to this process philosophy as a long-term commitment (not a method that you can test out for six months), however the very short term is still relevant since a manager of this process will have to carefully scrutinise the minutiae.

As this is a famous process philosophy, it is quite likely that its Spanish name, 'justo a tiempo' (JAT) would have come up in context. However, this is not necessarily the case, so the possibility is still worth exploring.

I repeat: this is just a tentative idea, in response to an as yet unresolved query. Comments are welcome, of course.

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Note added at 11 days (2012-07-31 07:35:16 GMT)
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No problem at all!

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_in_time_(business)#Transac...
Reference: http://www.webscolar.com/sistema-de-produccion-justo-a-tiemp...

Ben Miller
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Notes to answerer

Asker: Indeed, a large part of the chapter does discuss JIT, albeit in other sections. I am "in touch" with the authors, who do not reply, and hope that they may shed some light. The irritating thing is that "planificación (in this context programación = scheduling, not the same apparently) a muy corto plazo" gets nearly 1000 exact term google hits, which is infuriating. I have a sneaking suspicion that you may be right. I now have to check the text and will certainly bear your idea in mind as I do so, thank you

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