| Article ID: | iaor1991923 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 45 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 85 |
| End Page Number: | 95 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1990 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Solot Philippe |
| Keywords: | scheduling, planning, production: FMS |
This paper presents a new concept, called ‘PASS-A-FOREST’, for managing the running of a flexible manufacturing system. The integration of the planning and scheduling problems and the combined use of operations research and expert system techniques are shown to be essential to obtain a system that can deal efficiently with the real time problems. Further research needs are also mentioned.