An Approach to Schedule Production using the Reservation Tables

Abstract

This paper deals with the problems of scheduling of manufacturing where specific requirements have to be considered like production of microwire and specialized products based on it. Scheduling of such production systems is very nontrivial because of some technological, human, and organizational issues. To tackle the respective issues some predictive and reactive scheduling schemes must be developed. The paper discusses the possibility to develop schedules based on the method of reservation tables, which is a well known method in the computer pipelines. The proposed approach it seems to be an acceptable one. In our opinion, the method of reservation tables may be successfully adapted and developed to schedule nontrivial production systems, especially when multi-mixed model lines work in small batches. Combining with other methods, the proposed approach may offer feasible schedules in computation times short enough to be accepted in real-life decision support systems. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.