Architecture of a dynamic production controller in CIM enterprise environments

This paper deals with a production control problem for the testing and rework cell in a dynamic and stochastic computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) system. A dynamic controller is designed to handle three different production control decisions; dispatching, pre-emption, and dispatching within pre-emption. The model of this system also helps users deal with a large number of input features in real situations. This paper describes a technical architecture of dynamic production control and design issues of a dynamic production controller. It explains the overall development processes of the system and functional diagrams in order to give readers a design guideline for the dynamic production controller.