A component-based approach to support order planning in a distributed manufacturing enterprise

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2000

Authors

Américo Azevedo (Author) FEUP; Jorge Pinho de Sousa (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Vol. 107 No. 1-3

Pages: 431-438

ISSN: 0924-0136

Publisher: Elsevier

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Civil engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-000-YFJ

DOI: 10.1016/s0924-0136(00)00680-4

Abstract (EN): Traditional Production Planning and Control systems do not successfully deal with new organisational forms of manufacturing, like production "islands", product oriented or customer driven production. These current trends lead in practice to a strong decentralisation of production management tasks and to an "object oriented structuring" of the manufacturing process. Planning and operation in this global environment requires new skills and new approaches, namely, the co-ordination of global networks of manufacturing units and of large complex supply chains. In this paper, we present a decentralised information system designed to address the tasks of production planning that result from sales orders, originated in customers located anywhere in the world, and accomplished through a distributed manufacturing network. The system addresses the requirements of a make-to-order environment and is hopefully able to produce realistic satisfactory delivery dates. The information infrastructure designed and implemented using distributed object-oriented technology with a component based architecture has proven to be efficient and powerful, satisfying all the major tight requirements of information systems in an environment of distributed manufacturing.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8