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Abstract

A method for managing work orders (WOs) includes: identifying connections between a server and electronic devices, each of the electronic devices corresponding to a work center (WC) of a plurality of WCs, each WC having a WO queue; and controlling production by: storing status information for a subject WC and adjacent WCs that are immediately upstream of the subject WC; identifying a next WO to be authorized for production at one of the upstream adjacent WCs based on a priority-setting rule; determining a need time until the subject WC is available to start work on the next WO; determining an arrival time until the next WO will arrive at the subject WC; and modifying the WO queue of the upstream WC to authorize the next WO at the upstream adjacent WC if the arrival time is greater than or equal to the need time of the subject WC.

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First Claim