production scheduling

Due to a variety of technological developments within the past decade, today’s industrial working environment is changing dramatically. Information and communication technologies as well as automation and robotics are penetrating the working environment. In the context of industrial 4.0, the interaction of systems increases. Sensor data, status information and control commands are exchanged, which creates the conditions for new types of production concepts such as Remote Manufacturing. Remote Manufacturing describes a delocalized production, which removes the spatial unity of production factors. It will be no longer necessary for the elementary production factors (labor, materials, equipment) and the dispositional production factors (planning, management, control, organization) to be located at one place. In the future, it will be possible to operate production facilities abroad and to monitor the process control level from Germany. In this paper, the economic environment and the ...

Global supply chains source raw material around the world, make use of local cost advantages for production and utilise the expertise of excellent partners. They aim at the creation of a sustainable competitive network. In order to benefit from the locally obtained advantages the processes of the partners have to be synchronised. This is a classic task of advanced planning systems. However operational planning and control is quite often conducted in a decentralised, function and department oriented way. This paper presents a framework for an integrated scheduling of production and transportation systems along a global supply chain on the operational level. The framework enhances the synchronisation of material flows and increases the competitiveness of the supply chain.