Objective
The goal of ScheduleZ is to create a system for the configuration of highly efficient dynamic scheduling systems for manufacturers and distributors of short shelf-life and fast turnover products.
ScheduleZ created a tool box for manufacturers and distributors of short shelf-life and fast turnover products, that can be used to model manufacturing strategies and configure production planning/scheduling systems which explicitly map onto the real world production and supply chain problems encountered.
The objectives of ScheduleZ followed closely the original Workprogramme. The SCADA work however took another implementation perspective. Instead of the original simple factory model to be installed in one of the lines at KP, it was developed in a simulation environment. This allowed the extension of the analysis to a much more complex network. Three workstations representing each layer of communication interact to drive the scheduler using shopfloor information.
ScheduleZ has achieved all the objectives it set out to reach and produced tools and methods in :
- Multicriteria graphical configuration systems;
- Graphical OOD libraries;
- Finite capacity scheduling blueprints;
- OO tools for cooperative interaction with SCADA systems;
Powerful OO frameworks were designed and implemented and an extensive library of OO classes built.
These manufacturers are faced with problems of decreasing lead times, smaller batch sizes, increasing product variety, and little opportunity to manufacture to stock. Consequently, efficient utilization of resources (both capital and labour) is becoming evermore difficult. Current product offerings are too generic. They require the user to map his production onto a basic and restrictive set of functions which take no account of the particular manufacturing problems encountered in his market segment.
The alternative, which is generally too costly to contemplate, is for the manufacturer to commission a bespoke system. ScheduleZ aims to create a tool for these industries, that can be used to model manufacturing strategies and configure production scheduling systems which explicitly map onto the real world production and supply chain problems encountered. The system will make use of innovative OOD reusable code libraries. It will provide highly innovative multicriteria objective setting facilities a will be researched and tested in a live manufacturing environment.
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