A Blackboard Architecture for Integrating Process Planning and Production Scheduling
Abstract
As companies attempt to increase customization levels in their product offerings, move towards smaller lot production, and experiment with more flexible customer/supplier arrangements such as those made possible by electronic data interchange (EDI), they increasingly require the ability to (1) respond quickly, accurately, and competitively to customer requests for bids on new or modified products and (2) efficiently work out supplier/subcontractor arrangements for these products. This in turn requires the ability to (1) rapidly convert standard-based product specifications into process plans and (2) quickly integrate process plans for new orders into the existing production schedule to best accommodate the current state of the manufacturing enterprise.
BibTeX
@article{Sadeh-Koniecpol-1998-14704,author = {Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol and David W. Hildum and Dag Kjenstad and Allen Tseng and Thomas J. Laliberty and John McA'Nulty},
title = {A Blackboard Architecture for Integrating Process Planning and Production Scheduling},
journal = {Concurrent Engineering},
year = {1998},
month = {June},
volume = {6},
number = {2},
pages = {88 - 100},
}