CONTINGENCY AND PERFORMANCE-DRIVEN REACTIVE SCHEDULING IN DISCRETE-EVENT DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT

Rapid reactivity is becoming an increasingly important competitive factor for today's manufacturing companies in planning and controlling their shop floor processes. The construction and revision of shop floor schedules in such a way to keep them in line with rapidly changing events can significantly improve the manufacturing systems' performance in dynamic environments with many uncertainties in processes. Reactive scheduling as one major function of an intelligent supervisory control system for dynamic discrete manufacturing processes is explored in the paper from functional-decisional, knowledge-based and related performance aspects.