The production engineer's knowledge and reasoning strategies aboutthe composite manufacturing process are similar to that found in acase-based reasoning system. The intent of this paper is to demonstratehow the `cases' or layout configurations of the production engineer canbe utilized in building a more robust and realistic approach toproduction scheduling. A brief overview is presented of the case-basedscheduling architecture. Currently, the case-based scheduler onlyutilizes a subset of the information available in each case, such astime to cure and amount of layup time (the time needed to hand-form thematerial onto the mold). However, future versions of the case matcherand scheduler could also use such case information as delta (a numericalindex of oven monitoring difficulty) and number of part failures inmaking choices about case selection and scheduling
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