Production scheduling in industry 4.0

Abstract

Manufacturing processes are dynamic and intensive. Efficient and effective production scheduling is a crucial step to guarantee the competitiveness of manufacturing companies. While production scheduling has been studied in the literature for many years, an advanced optimization strategy is still in the lack of adoption. In the fourth industrial revolution, a set of technologies brings the possibility to transform traditional scheduling approach to the smarter production scheduling system. Motivated to fill in the gap between literature study and practical usage, we introduce a new approach integrated into the operating system under Industry 4.0 context through a case study. Besides demonstrating the new scheduling centered workflow, we also discuss the correlation between saturation and scheduling performance in the aspect of completion time.