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CMU-RI-TR-96-10
Robotics Institute
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
CMU-RI-TR-96-10
An Integrated Process-Planning/Production-Scheduling
Shell for Agile Manufacturing
Norman M. Sadeh, David W. Hildum, Thomas J. Laliberty
Stephen F. Smith, John McA'Nulty, Dag Kjenstad
CMU-RI-TR-96-10.ps
Keywords:
Increased reliance on agile manufacturing techniques has created a demand for
systems to solve integrated process-planning and production-scheduling problems
in large-scale dynamic environments. To be effective, these systems should
provide user-oriented interactive functionality for managing the various user
tasks and objectives and reacting to unexpected events. This paper describes
the mixed-initiative problem-solving features of IP3S, an Integrated
Process-Planning/Production-Scheduling shell for agile manufacturing. IP3S is
a blackboard-based system that supports the concurrent development and dynamic
revision of integrated process-planning and production-scheduling solutions and
the maintenance of multiple problem instances and solutions, as well as other
flexible user-oriented decision-making capabilities, allowing the user to
control the scope of the problem and explore alternate tradeoffs ("what-if"
scenarios) interactively. The system is scheduled for initial deployment and
evaluation in a large and highly dynamic machine shop at Raytheon's Andover
manufacturing facility.
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