An approach to short interval scheduling for discrete parts manufacturing

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to short interval scheduling as applied to two industrial cases involving discrete parts manufacturing. The approach is based on a concept for MAnufacturing DEcision MAking (MADEMA) which makes task-resource assignments for work centres consisting of a number of production resources. MADEMA combines multi-criteria decision making with search methods and simulation in order to provide flexibility with respect to both the decision criteria applied and the trade-off between decision quality and computational effort.