Title: Remote scheduling of production activities: tools, paradigms and performance

Authors: Alessandra Orsoni, Romeo Bandinelli

Addresses: School of Business Information Management, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT2 7LB, UK. ' Dipartimento di Energetica 'Sergio Stecco', Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Via Lombroso 6/17, Firenze 50134, Italy

Abstract: Remote scheduling is a fast growing area of research in the wider area of Production Planning and Control (PP&C). Many solutions have been reported in the literature and many scheduling tools are currently available, however, the criteria for their evaluation and comparison remain loosely defined. This paper proposes an overview of existing solutions, highlighting their advantages and limitations, to support academics and industrial users in their choices of scheduling techniques and Inter Process Communication (IPC) solutions for the remote and online scheduling of production. This paper also proposes design guidelines and performance measures against which production managers can evaluate and improve their solutions.

Keywords: remote scheduling; distributed simulation; personalisation; tacit knowledge; explicit knowledge; inter-organisational collaboration; production planning; production control; inter-process communication; online scheduling; internet manufacturing; web-based scheduling; production management; performance measures.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIMS.2007.014481

International Journal of Internet Manufacturing and Services, 2007 Vol.1 No.1, pp.19 - 31

Published online: 10 Jul 2007 *

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