SCHEDULING SYSTEM AND WORK ORDER SCHEDULING PROTOCOL FOR SUCH A SYSTEM

摘要

A scheduling system (DPS) for planning and scheduling production in an industrial production system (CL) , which scheduled production is to be executed by the production system (CL) under the control of a manufacturing execution system (MES) , wherein: - said scheduling system is a multi-agent scheduling system (DPS) ; - at least a part of the behavior of the agents in said multi-agent system (DPS) is customizable by means of visually defined scheduling rules; - said scheduling system (DPS) and manufacturing execution system (MES) share a definition and execution environment comprising: - editor means (CI) for visually defining both said scheduling rules and control rules of the manufacturing execution system (MES), and - an execution engine for executing said scheduling rules and control rules and making scheduling decisions on the basis of the executon of said scheduling rules and control rules.