MasDISPO_xt - Process Optimisation by Use of Integrated, Agentbased Manufacturing Execution Systems Inside the Supply Chain of Steel Production

Sven Jacobi, Christian Hahn, David Raber

2009

Abstract

The production of steel normally constitutes the inception of many supply chains in different areas of industry. Steel manufacturing companies are strongly affected by bull whip effects and other unpredictable influences along their production chains. Improving their operational efficiency is required to keep a competitive position on the market. Hence, flexible planning and scheduling systems are needed to support these processes, which are based on considerable amounts of data, hardly processable manually anymore. MasDISPO_xt is an agent-based generic online planning and scheduling system for the observation on MES-level of the complete supply chain of Saarstahl AG, a globally respected steel manufacturer. This paper concentrates on the horizontal and vertical integration of influences of rough planning on detailed and the other way around. Based on model-driven engineering business processes are modeled on CIM-level, a service oriented architecture is presented for the interoperability of all components, legacy systems and others wrapped behind services. Finally, an agent-based detailed planning and scheduling ensuring interoperability in horizontal and vertical direction is approached effectively.

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Jacobi S., Hahn C. and Raber D. (2009). MasDISPO_xt - Process Optimisation by Use of Integrated, Agentbased Manufacturing Execution Systems Inside the Supply Chain of Steel Production . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-85-2, pages 347-350. DOI: 10.5220/0001996503470350


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis09,
author={Sven Jacobi and Christian Hahn and David Raber},
title={MasDISPO_xt - Process Optimisation by Use of Integrated, Agentbased Manufacturing Execution Systems Inside the Supply Chain of Steel Production},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={347-350},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001996503470350},
isbn={978-989-8111-85-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - MasDISPO_xt - Process Optimisation by Use of Integrated, Agentbased Manufacturing Execution Systems Inside the Supply Chain of Steel Production
SN - 978-989-8111-85-2
AU - Jacobi S.
AU - Hahn C.
AU - Raber D.
PY - 2009
SP - 347
EP - 350
DO - 10.5220/0001996503470350