Dynamic scheduling of manufacturing orders: a decision support system approach

This paper presents a decision support system (DSS) based architecture and a new method for the dynamic scheduling of manufacturing systems. The proposed architecture is based on the DSS paradigm. The typical scheduling problems, namely the order allocation and order sequencing problems, are to be solved for a given production plan which defines a set of manufacturing orders to be processed. These specify product types to be manufactured, their quantities and due dates. The allocation problem deals with the assignment of n orders to m manufacturing processors, under the given production plan, and the solution to the sequencing problem identifies the input sequence and the instants of processing of the assigned orders on each manufacturing processor.