Cooperative Multisite Production Re-scheduling

One of the main issues in cooperative enterprise planning and scheduling is how to re-assign tasks without involving too many components of every enterprise and implying too many changes in the whole system. We propose a new system that is able to re-schedule tasks in cooperative multisite production automatically avoiding one of the main problems that have schedule programmers that are in charge of two or more cooperative enterprises. The system is based on making virtual groups of machines that perform the same tasks and establishes links between machines from different groups. We will describe the algorithm in detail and we will validate it using a case of study. Results show that our proposal gives better performance.