“…Depending on the type of production there are many factors to be considered. These could be timedependent demands, capacities of production lines, stocks, buffers, qualifications of workers, set-upand lead-times, stockouts, backlocks, alternative or parallel identical machines, batch size and transport restrictions as well as different shift calendars (Tempelmeier, 2006;Stammen-Hegener, 2002). Based on the resulting production plan, demands of secondary and tertiary parts can be derived and the capacity utilization analysed.…”