A new generation of evaluation tool for online design and scheduling in an advanced manufacturing system

This paper proposes a new generation of evaluation tool for online design and scheduling, wherein the planned control policy designed by engineers can be online evaluated. Performance can be evaluated by a new prediction rule that differs from existent state-independent or steady state model such as a queuing network model. In addition to that, a new optimal control rule or schedule can then be derived from the originally planned ones and the feedback from the manufacturing engineers. Simulation and prediction methods are applied together to give an optimum in the time slot of snapshot. Such evaluation tool can also be used to look for the possible conflicts in the potential solution and suggest some necessary steps to avoid those conflicts