Methods for creating aggregate plans useful in manufacturing environments
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Aug 21, 2001
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Dec 18, 1998
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Dec 18, 1998
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An aggregate plan for a set of job requests to be processed in a manufacturing environment may be produced given capacities for resources of the manufacturing environment, the capacities being represented by bins in multiple dimensions, some of which may be used by the jobs on an alternative basis. In such a scheme, producing the aggregate plan may be accomplished by selecting a subset of the job requests according to a procedure for packing the bins. For example, packing the bins may be accomplished by selecting from among ordered lists of the job requests grouped according to costs for one or more of the resources. The ordered lists of job requests may be ordered in terms of value. In some cases, at least some of the job requests may have different values versus cost for different ones of the resources. Each alternative be represented as a separate bin. A detailed schedule may be developed from the aggregate plan, the detailed schedule differing from the aggregate plan by including a timeline for the selected jobs.
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