A framework to specify a reactive and proactive management system

• Published in: Proceedings 1995 INRIA/IEEE Symposium on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation. ETFA'95 Vol. 3; pp. 251 - 259 vol.3
• Main Authors: Campagne, J.P., Jacot, J.H., Frein, Y., Vitry, G.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Los Alamitos CA IEEE 1995; IEEE Computer Society Press
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Chemical technology; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer industry; Electrical capacitance tomography; Exact sciences and technology; Fitting; Inventory control, production control. Distribution; Learning systems; Manufacturing industries; Operational research and scientific management; Operational research. Management science; Production systems; Technology management; Uncertainty; Production management; Reactivity
• ISBN: 9780780325357; 0780325354
• DOI: 10.1109/ETFA.1995.496725

Industries, in a present context, must become more and more reactive. This reactivity depends on middle or long term tactical choices which have been carried out. Its efficiency implies a perpetual fitting from rules and parameters according to environment changes. It needs the implementation of a management system which we define as reactive and proactive. Such a management system must be characterized by a reactive behaviour, i.e. handling uncertainty and orders directly at operational level. It must also be characterized by a decision support system, the "proactive system", which can adapt orders, rules, and/or parameters fixed to the operational management system according to the environment analysis and fitting with manufacturing models. Implementing such a management system implies the development of learning systems, models for cause/effects analysis and parameters fitting.