Web-based scheduling agent for a practical product line

The paper describes a Web based scheduling agent for a product line. We design our agent for a practical product line of the Machinery and Tooling Division in a real company. In general, schedule computation for a product line is executed within one high performance machine. However, our agent realizes the remote schedule management, so we can access our agent using a Web browser and make a schedule at a remote site. This allows us to show the accurate time of delivery for a customer order in real time. However, it is problem that everyone can reference and execute scheduling. Therefore, the agent has an access control function so that the right to access to the scheduling engine is set up for every user and the agent restricts the commands that users can execute.