Global Planning of Several Plants

Practical Approaches to Scheduling and Planning

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Practical Approaches to Scheduling and Planning

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This paper discusses an attempt to solve the problem of planning several pharmaceutical plants at a global level. The interest in planning at this level is to increase the global control over the production process, to improve its overall efficiency and to reduce the need for interaction between production plants. In order to reduce the complexity of this problem and to make it tractable, some abstractions have been made. Based on these abstractions, a prototype is being developed within the framework of the EUREKA project PROTOS, using Constraint Logic Programming techniques.