Author       Carvalho, L.; Almeida, R.; BISPO, C.; Sentieiro, J.; 
             UMM, Lisbon, Portugal
Title        An integrated environment for planning and scheduling in flow-
             chop manufacturing plants
Source       Proceedings of Rensselaer's Second International Conference on 
             Computer Integrated Manufacturing; Troy, NY, USA; 21-23 May 1990; 
             Sponsored by:  IEEE; Center Manuf. Productivity Technol.; NIST;
              Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst; 
             Los Alamitos, CA, USA; IEEE Comput. Soc. Press; xiv+599; 1990; 
             pp. 55-62
Abstract     An automatic planner and scheduler is described for 
             manufacturing plants with m machines, n jobs, and a flow-shop 
             structure. Given a production problem, the scheduler algorithm 
             allocates the jobs to the set of machines by minimizing the 
             total production time. The schedule is generated by 
             alternatively using a forward and backward allocation strategy 
             with a rule-based criterion. The scheduler was designed to 
             solve problems where the resources may not be available at all 
             production instants, due to the existence of work shifts. 
             Sufficient conditions for optimality are stated and 
             representative simulation results are presented. The interface 
             between the industrial production needs and the scheduler is 
             provided by a planner, which finds the net production needs to 
             accomplish each particular production order, and feeds that 
             information to the scheduler module
Thesaurus    knowledge based systems;  optimisation;  production control
Other Terms  integrated environment;  planning;  scheduling;  flow-chop 
             manufacturing plants;  allocation strategy;  rule-based 
             criterion;  optimality
ClassCodes   C7160;  C6170
Article Type Practical
Language     English
RecordType   Conference
ControlNo.   3865069
AbstractNos. C91030807
ISBN or SBN  0 8186 1966 X
References   7
U.S. Copyright Clearance Center Code
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Country Pub. USA
date         1175