SITUATION A composite manufacturing company was producing carbon fiber components for commercial and military aircraft. The process associated with this production has many time-based complexities (e.g. expiration times for stored or in-use material, variable cycle times with manual operations) that are inherent to the nature of the process. These complexities present difficulties in planning and scheduling at current program-required volumes. Future increases in demand make that challenge even greater. A lack of a dynamic and accurate capacity planning tool made analyzing these issues very difficult and time consum- ing. There was no scheduling tool for long-range capacity analyses to determine what combination of labor, tooling, equipment, and other resources will be required to ma

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