The specifics of production scheduling in process industries

Abstract

Process manufacturing has some characteristics that makes it different from other types of industry. These specifics are reflected in the design of a process factory management system. This paper stresses some features of process manufacturing that have to he taken into account during the implementation of a production scheduling system.

Finite scheduling of collaborative design and manufacturing activity: a Petri net approach

“…In order to be competitive in current global environment, enterprises must accept the challenges of short product lifecycle, product varieties, minimal inventories, the concurrent processing of different products and short delivery times (Jovan, 2002; Jiang et al , 2002). In absorbing all these pressures, some researchers proposed manufacturing enterprises to move away from the traditionally adopted self‐contained strategies.…”