The concept of a maximal network plan to enhance automated decision making in production steering

Abstract Digitalization is a major driver of competitiveness in industry. Especially, automated scheduling systems are broadly available to deal with production steering complex systems. Their underlying concept the network plan describe logical relation between different steps for completion process. The plan, however, limited contain only one standard process and allows therefore basically variation execution time each step within given sequence. This sufficient as long boundary conditions, such resource availability, stable certain degree. work introduces an enhancement Maximal Network Plan, that designed automatically cope disruptions. It stores additional alternative sequences, weighted according their priority comparison Therefore, numerical decision making possible terms also varying order tasks achieve maximum performance overall Instead waiting disruption be solved, sequence will proposed increase progress by circumventing blocked step. has been developed tested assembly tasks, air- spacecraft structures In conjunction use mobile computing devices instead paper-based documents it very fast dynamic steering, case substantial disruptions