摘要 |
<p>An improved method and system is described for allocating manufacturing or process resources having multiple constraints thereon to meet various time varying manufacturing or service demands having multiple parameter requirements. The demand requirements are expressed as a multi-dimensional time ordered array of vertices Dq[t,r,j] (32, FIG. 2), for each demand q, wherein t is time and r identifies the physical requirements associated with the q<th> demand and j is an integer index running from 1 to J wherein J is the total number of times wherein r has differing values. The available resources are expressed as a multi-dimensional time ordered array of resource vertices Rp[t,c,i] (38, FIG. 2) for each resource p, where c expresses the physical capacities associated with the p<th> resource, t is time and i is an integer index running from 1 to I where I is the total number of times wherein c has differing values.</p> |