SCHEDULING MANUFACTURING PROCESS OF PARALLEL MACHINES

摘要

A general aspect of the invention uses an ordered product list and product-specific ordered suitability list of machines. First, the products to be manufactured are ini- tially allocated to production queues of the machines. Then fill factors for each ma- chine and a target fill factor level are calculated. The products are then allocated one by one, according to the order in the ordered product list, to a production queue of one of the machines, that is selected based on the fill factors, the target fill factor level, and suitability and availability of the machines. The fill factors and the target fill factor level are recalculated after the product has been allocated and be- fore allocating the next product.