Manufacturing can be complicated and expensive; that's why there needs to be a method to simplify the process. When looking to minimize production costs, many manufacturers turn to aggregate planning ...

Aggregate planning is a technique for adjusting production to the ups and downs of demand. An aggregate plan gets its name from the fact that it must include demand forecasts, resources and capacity ...

A number of approaches to the aggregate planning problem have been proposed in the literature, yet experience suggests that industrial concerns seldom use these models in actual planning situations.

PEABODY — City officials and neighbors of Aggregate Industries' quarry are trying to reconcile the company's recent proposal to expand with the obligation it has to tell the city how it will shut down ...

Lansing — A bipartisan group of Michigan lawmakers are resurrecting a proposal to transfer oversight of aggregate mining permits and operations from local communities to state regulators amid a ...