A Customizing Platform for Individual Production Planning and Control Solutions

Decision support in production planning and control has to face special properties of production processes and systems. To find an optimal solution for decision problems in this domain is usually nphard and a proper definition of objective functions and constraints is extremely difficult. One reason for the problem of proper model definition for classical optimization methods is the individual character of production systems. Thus, in many cases only individual solutions for PPC offer satisfying results. On the other hand intuitive graphical user interfaces are required to integrate the expert knowledge of human planners in the planning process. These interfaces are one of the main drivers of the complexity in software development. In this paper we introduce a framework for efficient implementation of PPC tools in serial manufacturing.