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Due to technology changes, the demands in the consumer electronics industry keep expanding, particularly in the Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display (TFT-LCD) panel industry. A firm may own several parallel production lines in different areas, where lines can not completely backup each other due to different technology levels. The manufacturing processes of TFT-LCD can be divided into three stages Array, Cell and Module. The production in Array and Cell is triggered by pre-defined production schedule because of their complicated production steps and long production lead time. Module begins to assemble panel and other components according to actual orders (assembly-to-order, ATO). In addition, we consider the transportation between different production stages because Module factories are usually built in areas with lower labor cost. The order fulfillment and available-to-promise (ATP) problems in TFT-LCD manufacturing are more complicated than other industries because of “alterna
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Due to technology changes, the demands in the consumer electronics industry keep expanding, particularly in the Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display (TFT-LCD) panel industry. A firm may own several parallel production lines in different areas, where lines can not completely backup each other due to different technology levels. The manufacturing processes of TFT-LCD can be divided into three stages Array, Cell and Module. The production in Array and Cell is triggered by pre-defined production schedule because of their complicated production steps and long production lead time. Module begins to assemble panel and other components according to actual orders (assembly-to-order, ATO). In addition, we consider the transportation between different production stages because Module factories are usually built in areas with lower labor cost. The order fulfillment and available-to-promise (ATP) problems in TFT-LCD manufacturing are more complicated than other industries because of “alterna
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