A modular tool for FMS scheduling

Industrial schedulers try to take into account more and more complex aspects of manufacturing and become as a consequence more difficult to use efficiently. We suggest a modular framework in order to support the development of schedulers better adapted to the technological constraints of the manufac...

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Published inProceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning (ISATP'99) (Cat. No.99TH8470) pp. 430 - 435
Main Authors Moutarlier, P., Geneste, L., Grabot, B.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1999
Subjects
Assembly
Communication standards
Data models
Flexible manufacturing systems
Job shop scheduling
Manufacturing industries
Manufacturing systems
Object oriented modeling
Pulp manufacturing
Virtual manufacturing
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Summary:Industrial schedulers try to take into account more and more complex aspects of manufacturing and become as a consequence more difficult to use efficiently. We suggest a modular framework in order to support the development of schedulers better adapted to the technological constraints of the manufacturing cell they are used in. In order to decrease the time needed to develop such schedulers, an extensive reuse of past developments is made possible by the object paradigm through the definition of a powerful yet generic data model. A fully modular architecture has been developed thanks to communication standards like CORBA, MMS and STEP. The first scheduler developed within this framework, called TAPAS (the almost perfect approach to scheduling) and used in an industrial context is described.
ISBN:0780357043
9780780357044
DOI:10.1109/ISATP.1999.782996