Declarative modeling for production order portfolio scheduling

• Published in: Foundations of management Vol. 6; no. 3; pp. 7 - 24
• Main Authors: Banaszak, Zbigniew, Bocewicz, Grzegorz
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Warsaw De Gruyter 01.12.2014; De Gruyter Open; De Gruyter Poland; Sciendo
• Subjects: Alliances; Batch processes; customized production; Decision making; Decision support systems; declarative modeling; Economic activity; Fuzzy sets; Guarantees; Logic programming; Manufacturing; Multiple criteria decision making; Portfolio management; Portfolio selection; Production planning; Production scheduling; Products; Project management; project portfolio; routing; Satisfaction; Scheduling; Set theory; Small & medium sized enterprises-SME; Small and medium sized enterprises; Software; Software services; Studies
• ISSN: 2300-5661; 2080-7279; 2300-5661
• DOI: 10.1515/fman-2015-0014

A declarative framework enabling to determine conditions as well as to develop decision-making software supporting small- and medium-sized enterprises aimed at unique, multi-project-like and mass customized oriented production is discussed. A set of unique production orders grouped into portfolio orders is considered. Operations executed along different production orders share available resources following a mutual exclusion protocol. A unique product or production batch is completed while following a given activity's network order. The problem concerns scheduling a newly inserted project portfolio subject to constraints imposed by a multi-project environment The answers sought are: Can a given project portfolio specified by its cost and completion time be completed within the assumed time period in a manufacturing system in hand? Which manufacturing system capability guarantees the completion of a given project portfolio ordered under assumed cost and time constraints? The considered problems regard finding a computationally effective approach aimed at simultaneous routing and allocation as well as batching and scheduling of a newly ordered project portfolio subject to constraints imposed by a multi-project environment. The main objective is to provide a declarative model enabling to state a constraint satisfaction problem aimed at multi-project-like and mass customized oriented production scheduling. Multiple illustrative examples are discussed.