摘要 |
<p>The present invention discloses a method and a system (10) for scheduling a manufacturing process planned by an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and produced by equipment of a shop floor (12), wherein within a Manufacturing Executing System (MES) a production scheduler (14) is provided to schedule tasks (T1, T2) of said manufacturing process, the system comprising:
- the production scheduler (14) enabled to display the current production schedule by means of a Gantt-chart (2);
- the production scheduler (14) enabled to display in the Gantt-chart (2) for each equipment of the shop floor (12) the time periods already scheduled and those time periods still unscheduled;
- a selector for selecting for a specific equipment a time period still unscheduled;
- a query module for querying a production database (DB) for this specific equipment to find at least one task (T1, T2) that fits into the time period still unscheduled; and
- the production scheduler (14) enabled to schedule the task (T1, T2) in case of a single task found or in case of a plurality of tasks (T1, T2) found schedule at least one of the tasks found by means of a decision entered by an user interaction or by means of a decision determined automatically by a selection preference.</p> |