Models for Integrating Scheduling and Shop Floor Data Collection

Published

February 1, 1997

Author(s)

Frank H. Riddick, V. Lourenco

Abstract

Increasing shop floor efficiency through scheduling has become one of the major concerns of manufacturing companies. Two of the problems that manufacturers have to overcome are 1) it is difficult to input the information needed for scheduling into the scheduling applications and 2) once a schedule has been produced there is no way to react to changes in the shop floor environment that occurred after the schedule has been started. Methods to facilitate the transfer of data for the production of initial schedules must be devised along with methods to reschedule based on updated information from the shop floor. To address these problems, a project is underway at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to facilitate the development of reactive scheduling systems. This paper will present a model which describes shop floor status data and a model defining a simple message protocol for communicating shop floor status information. Implementation issues and vendor involvement in the development of these models will also be discussed.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of The 16th IASTED International Conference

Conference Dates

February 17-19, 1997

Conference Location

Innsbruck, 1, AU

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

Express, modeling, scheduling, shop floor

Citation

Riddick, F. and Lourenco, V. (1997), Models for Integrating Scheduling and Shop Floor Data Collection, Proceedings of The 16th IASTED International Conference, Innsbruck, 1, AU, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=821466 (Accessed October 11, 2025)