An Integrated Process-Planning/Production-Scheduling Shell for Agile Manufacturing - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

An Integrated Process-Planning/Production-Scheduling Shell for Agile Manufacturing

Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol, David W. Hildum, Thomas J. Laliberty, Stephen Smith, John McA'Nulty, and Dag Kjenstad
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-96-10, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1996

Abstract

Increased reliance on agile manufacturing techniques has created a demand for systems to solve integrated process-planning and production-scheduling problems in large-scale dynamic environments. To be effective, these systems should provide user-oriented interactive functionality for managing the various user tasks and objectives and reacting to unexpected events. This paper describes the mixed-initiative problem-solving features of IP3S, an Integrated Process-Planning/Production-Scheduling shell for agile manufacturing. IP3S is a blackboard-based system that supports the concurrent development and dynamic revision of integrated process-planning and production-scheduling solutions and the maintenance of multiple problem instances and solutions, as well as other flexible user-oriented decision-making capabilities, allowing the user to control the scope of the problem and explore alternate tradeoffs ("what-if" scenarios) interactively. The system is scheduled for initial deployment and evaluation in a large and highly dynamic machine shop at Raytheon's Andover manufacturing facility.

BibTeX

@techreport{Sadeh-Koniecpol-1996-14148,
author = {Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol and David W. Hildum and Thomas J. Laliberty and Stephen Smith and John McA'Nulty and Dag Kjenstad},
title = {An Integrated Process-Planning/Production-Scheduling Shell for Agile Manufacturing},
year = {1996},
month = {May},
institute = {Carnegie Mellon University},
address = {Pittsburgh, PA},
number = {CMU-RI-TR-96-10},
}