A holonic approach to dynamic manufacturing scheduling

• Author(s): Paulo Leitão ; Francisco José de Oliveira Restivo
• Date: 2008
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/25278
• Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Subject(s): Ciências tecnológicas; Engenharia; Engenharia industrial; Engenharia de produção industrial
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Manufacturing scheduling is a complex combinatorial problem, particularly in distributed and dynamic environments. This paper presents a holonic approach to manufacturing scheduling, where the scheduling functions are distributed by several entities, combining their calculation power and local optimization capability. In this scheduling and control approach, the objective is to achieve fast and dynamic re-scheduling using a scheduling mechanism that evolves dynamically to combine centralized and distributed strategies, improving its responsiveness to emergence, instead of the complex and optimized scheduling algorithms found in traditional approaches.