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Integrated Process Planning/Production Scheduling (IP3S) This project is no longer active.
Head: Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol
Mailing address:
Associated center: CIMDS For more information, see this project's homepage.
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| Project Description |
As manufacturing companies increase the level of customization in their product offerings, move towards smaller lot production, and experiment with more flexible customer/supplier arrangements such as those made possible by EDI/Electronic Commerce, they increasingly require the ability to respond quickly, accurately and competitively to customer requests for bids on new products and efficiently work out supplier/subcontractor arrangements for these new products. This in turn requires the ability to rapidly convert standard-based product specifications into process plans and integrate new orders with their process plans into existing production schedules across the supply chain.
The IP3S shell emphasizes blackboard-based support for a broad range of mixed-initiative and workflow management functionalities for agile manufacturing. IP3S has been customized for a Raytheon machine shop where 50% of incoming orders require the generation or revision of process plans and coordination with a tool shop. Experiments with IP3S show an average performance improvement of 23% in solution quality over a more traditional, decoupled approach to building process planning/production scheduling solutions in this environment.
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Name | Title | Email Address |
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David Hildum | Project Scientist | hildum@cs.cmu.edu |
| Dag Kjenstad | Visiting Research Scholar | ||
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Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol | Associate Professor, ISRI | sadeh@cs.cmu.edu |
| Allen Tseng | Research Programmer |
| Publications |
Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.