Constructing and Maintaining Detailed Production Plans: Investigations into the Development of K-B Factory Scheduling

Authors

  • Stephen F. Smith
  • Mark S. Fox
  • Peng Si Ow

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v7i4.558

Abstract

To be useful in practice, a factory production schedule must reflect the influence of a large and conflicting set of requirements, objectives and preferences. Human schedulers are typically overburdened by the complexity of this task, and conventional computer-based scheduling systems consider only a small fraction of the relevent knowledge. This article describes research aimed at providing a framework in which all relevant scheduling knowledge can be given consideration during schedule generation and revision. Factory scheduling is cast as a complex constraint-directed activity, driven by a rich symbolic model of the factory environment in which various influencing factors are formalized as constraints. A variety of constraint-directed inference techniques are defined with respect to this model to provide a basis for intelligently compromising among conflicting concerns. Two knowledge-based factory scheduling systems that implement aspects of this approach are described.

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Published

1986-09-15

How to Cite

Smith, S. F., Fox, M. S., & Ow, P. S. (1986). Constructing and Maintaining Detailed Production Plans: Investigations into the Development of K-B Factory Scheduling. AI Magazine, 7(4), 45. https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v7i4.558

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