Collaborative production scheduling
Companies need continuously improving their ability to make good decisions. This highly depends on the availability or access to good the management methods. Potentially, for improving decision making, a company could use important distributed knowledge globally available if it could easily access it through adequate platforms and computer networks. In this paper this idea is explored, in the context of production scheduling, through the concept of collaborative scheduling based on P2P networks. In these networks each peer may supply and receive production scheduling services. A prototype of a collaborative production scheduler designed with the support of the JXTA platform and XML technology is presented and described.
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Hello Anthony
Thanks for putting this question.
The straight answer is: actually, not yet.
There are improvements to make, referred in the future work, that will make the prototype attractive to apply on real factory environment.
In particular the enlargement of web scheduling service providers, and the Distributed Base of implementations of scheduling methods, is important together with measures of efficiency and cost of using methods and of quality of solutions provided by them.
Best regards
Carmo Silva (Sílvio)
PS. I am having difficulties in ulploading my presentation, may be due to ita size, 60MB. May be you could help me to sort out this problem.
Silvio,
I'm wondering if you have been able to apply the techniques you have developed in to production scheduling situations in a real factory. If so have the results been positive?
Regards,
Anthony