Issues related to the implementation of this hybrid scheduler at an industrial company are discussed. Emphasis is given to the knowledge acquisition and modeling process required for the development of this scheduler. Work at NIST to develop a generic interface between scheduling and shop floor data collection is presented. Also, efforts to modify commercial schedulers to use this interface are discussed. Modifications often are proposed to the shipping and receiving facilities to address this problem.
Simulation often is used to evaluate such modifications.
A case study from 1 manufacturing facility is discussed.