Concepts for Planning \& Control within the Company
a. Figure 3.5.3.1 showed different concepts for planning \& control in dependency upon the features facility layout and product variety concept. Using the Internet, try to find three different companies together with their products or product families, where (1) the lean just-in-time concept, (2) variant-oriented concepts, and (3) processororiented concepts would be adequate for planning \& control. As you browse the companies' Web sites, try to base your reasoning on facility layout and product variety concept.
b. For the three companies that you found in (a), what branch of industry, as shown in Figure 3.5.1.1, is the company in? What production type(s), as shown in Figure 3.5.2.1, does the company implement for these products or product families? In reference to the discussion in Section 3.5 .4 , try to decide whether these companies implement in parallel several production types and concepts for planning \& control.
Present your findings for group discussion.