Article ID: | iaor1990915 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 41 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 377 |
End Page Number: | 390 |
Publication Date: | May 1990 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | OKeefe Robert M., Duches Peter |
Keywords: | artificial intelligence |
This paper discusses a knowledge-based approach to production planning, the process of establishing production rates, work force levels and on-hand inventories for product families as a possible alternative to traditional operational research methods. It describes one company’s experienced-based approach to production planning and how this was incorporated into a knowledge-based system. The production planning state-space, use of common planning constraints and heuristic procedures, and a prototype of a knowledge-based system that develops production plans for one product family are also described.