Objective PASO aims at advancing manufacturing management technology in a commercially attractive area.Since the 1980ies manufacturers have been shifting from functional production arrangements towards product-based manufacturing shops and smaller organisational entities (lean management and group technology). These autonomous, small production shops and cells need visual, user-friendly scheduling and control systems, which can be customised and integrated with internal and external supplier networks. Other requirements like a more frequently restructuring of production facilities add further to this need.Today's tools for production planning and scheduling are not flexible enough, as most of them are fixed to a certain production structure. PASO aims at developing a software architecture for shop-control (reactive scheduling) which is independent of the production structure. It therefore should be possible to support almost any structure, organisation and scheduling algorithm.The innovative contribution of PASO is not based on sophisticated algorithms but rather on a new, flexible software concept with benefits for both the end-user and the system provider. A prototype shop-control system based on the envisaged shop-control kernel, as well as a set of shell modules will demonstrate and validate the feasibility of the concept.The advantages of the targeted system can be summarised as follows:- customisable in a very high degree, allowing incremental upsizing;- low cost system,- easy to use, simple, with illustrative user interface,- simplified system administration (only PC know-how required);- expandability and openings; Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwareengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systemssocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economics Programme(s) FP4-ESPRIT 4 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of information technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 8.12 - Intelligent Production Systems and Equipment Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator A. Ahistrom Corporation, Shistrom Machinery, Savonlinna Works EU contribution No data Address 57101 Savonlinna Finland See on map Total cost No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Asociacion de Investigacion Tekniker Spain EU contribution No data Address Otaola 20 20600 Eibar See on map Total cost No data Ccp - Centre de Cim de Porto Portugal EU contribution No data Address Rua De Aurelia De Sousa 171 4000 Porto See on map Total cost No data Extech Ireland EU contribution No data Address Lismoyle House, Merchants Road Galway See on map Total cost No data Institute of Production Engineering and Machine Tools (Ifw) Germany EU contribution No data Address Schlosswender Strasse 5 30159 Hannover See on map Total cost No data Jaz-Zubiaurre Sa Spain EU contribution No data Address Asuerreka 7 20600 Eibar See on map Total cost No data Telleria, Valdubieco, Azaola Spain EU contribution No data Address Zeharkalea S/N 48260 Ermua See on map Total cost No data Vtt Automation Finland EU contribution No data Address Espoo See on map Total cost No data Wm-Data Systia Oy Finland EU contribution No data Address Ilmarisentie 20 15200 Lahti See on map Total cost No data