An autonomous decentralized supply chain planning system for multi-stage production processes

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 259-275

  Nishi, Tatsushi ^a   Konishi, Masami ^a   Hasebe, Shinji ^b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomous decentralized system; Distributed scheduling; Flowshop problem; Planning and scheduling; Simulated annealing; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION; SCHEDULING; SIMULATED ANNEALING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING; FLOWSHOP PROBLEM; PLANNING AND SCHEDULING; SUPPLY CHAIN;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 21144445739     PISSN: 09565515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10845-005-7022-7     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Androulakis, I. and Reklaitis, G. (1999) Approaches to asynchronous decentralized decision making. Computers and Chemical Engineering, 23, 341-355.
2. Birewar, D. and Grossmann, I.E. (1990) Production planning and scheduling in multiproduct batch plants. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 29, 570-580.
3. Bitran, R. and Hax, A. (1977) On the design of hierarchical production planning systems. Decision Sciences, 8, 29-55.
4. Bok, J.K., Grossmann, I.E. and Park, S. (2000) Supply chain optimization in continuous flexible process. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 39, 1279-1290.
5. Burke, P. and Prosser, P. (1990) Distributed asynchronous scheduling. Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering V, 2, 503-522.
6. Fischer, K. (1999) Agent-based design of holonic manufacturing systems. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 27, 3-13.
7. Gou, L., Luh, P.B., Kyoya, Y. (1998) Holonic manufacturing scheduling: architecture, cooperation mechanism, and implementation. Computers in Industry, 37, 213-231.
8. Gupta, A. and Maranas, C.D. (1999) Hierarchical Lagrangean relaxation procedure for solving mid term planning problems. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 38, 1937-1947.
9. Hasebe, S., Kitajima, T., Shiren, T. and Murakami, Y. (1994) Autonomous decentralized scheduling system for single production line processes, Presented at AIChE Annual Meeting, Paper 235c, USA.
10. Hoitomt, D.J., Luh, P.B. and Pattipati, R. (1993) A practical approach to job-shop scheduling problems. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 9, 1-13.
11. Jeremy, F.S. (2001) Modeling the Supply Chain, Thomson Learning.
12. Maturana, F.P. and Norrie, D.H. (1997) Distributed decision-making using the contract net within a mediator architecture. Decision Support Systems, 20, 53-64.
13. McDonald, C. and Karimi, I. (1997) Planning and scheduling of parallel semicontinuous processes 1. Production planning. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 36, 2691-2700.
14. Mckay, A., Pennington, D. and Barnes, C. (2001) A Web-based tool and a heuristic method for cooperation of manufacturing supply chain decisions. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing 12, 433-453.
15. Nishi, T., Inoue, T., Yutaka, H. and Taniguchi, S. (2000a) Development of a decentralized supply chain optimization system. Proceedings of the International Symposium on PSE Asia, 141-146.
16. Nishi, T., Konishi, M., Hattori, Y. and Hasebe, S. (2003) A Decentralized supply chain optimization method for single stage production systems. Transactions of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, 16-12, 628-636 (in Japanese).
17. Nishi, T., Sakata, A., Hasebe, S. and Hashimoto, I. (2000) Autonomous decentralized scheduling system for just-in-time production. Computers and Chemical Engineering, 24, 345-351.
18. Nishi, T., Sakata, A., Hasebe, S. and Hashimoto, I. (2000c) Autonomous decentralized scheduling system for flowshop problems with storage cost and due-date penalties. Kagaku Kogaku Ronbunshu, 26, 661-668 (in Japanese).
19. Ohkuma, K. and Ueda, K., (1996) Solving production scheduling problems with a simple model of biological-oriented manufacturing systems. Nihon Kikaigakkai Ronbunshu C, 62, 429-435 (in Japanese).
20. Rupp, T.M. and Ristic, M. (2000) Fine planning for supply chains in semiconductor manufacture. Journal of Material Processing Technology, 107, 390-397.
21. Shaw, M.J. (1987) A distributed scheduling method for computer integrated manufacturing: the use of local area network in cellular systems. International Journal of Production Research, 25(9), 1285-1303.
22. Simon, C., Pietro, R. and Mihalis, G. (2000) Supply chain management: an analytical framework for critical literature review. European Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management, 6, 67-83.
23. Smith, R.G. (1980) The contract net protocol: high-level communication control in a distributed problem solver. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 29(12), 1104-1113.
24. Tan, M. (2001) Hierarchical Operations and Supply Chain Planning. Springer.
25. Tharumarajah, A. and Bemelman, R. (1997) Approaches and issues in scheduling a distributed shop-floor environment. Computers in Industry, 34, 95-109.
26. Vidal, C.J. and Goetschalckx, M. (1997) Strategic production-distribution models: A critical review with emphasis on global supply chain models. European Journal of Operational Research, 98, 1-18.
27. Wei, T. (2000) Integration of process planning and scheduling - a review. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 11, 51-63.