The design of an agent-based production scheduling software framework for improving planning-scheduling collaboration

Abstract

In the operation management environment, the process of production scheduling is responsible for detailing operating activities by indicating a set of methods and tools that are conditioned, among other restrictions, by the tactical decisions that are made in the production planning environment. Although, theoretically, a bi-directional flow of information should exist among both environments of decisions that permit those who are involved to coordinate both levels in practice, such does not occur because of a structured decision-making tool gap. This document proposes an architecture that is based on agents software designed with INGENIAS methodology and proposed from an analysis of requirements that is based on CIMOSA. Once it is implemented, a prototype that employs JADE has been carried out to test and verify its suitable operation. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2010.