Guidelines for the deployment and implementation of manufacturing scheduling systems

Jose Manuel Framinan (1) , Ruben Ruiz (2)

1 Industrial Management
2 Instituto Tecnológico de Informática

It has been frequently stated that there exists a gap between production scheduling theory and practice. In order to put the theoretical findings into practice, the advances in scheduling models and solution procedures should be embedded into a piece of software --a scheduling system-- at work in the companies. This results in a process which entails 1) determining its functional features, and 2) adopting a successful strategy for its development and deployment. In this paper we address the latter question and review the related literature in order to identify descriptions and recommendations of the main aspects to be taken into account when developing such system. These issues are then discussed and classified, resulting in a set of guidelines that can help practitioners during the process of developing and deploying a scheduling system. In addition, the identification of these issues can provide some insights to drive the theoretical scheduling research towards those topics more demanded by practitioners, thus helping in closing the aforementioned gap.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Jose Manuel Framinan, Ruben Ruiz. Guidelines for the deployment and implementation of manufacturing scheduling systems. International Journal of Production Research, 2011, pp.1. ⟨10.1080/00207543.2011.564670⟩. ⟨hal-00722789⟩