Author： Hans-Peter Wiendahl
Publisher： Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISSN： 1366-5871
Source： Production Planning and Control, Vol.15, Iss.2, 2004-03, pp. : 213-224
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Abstract
Because of the large amounts of time and money involved, the restructuring of factory layouts in response to new business conditions occurs only at very infrequent intervals. The research approach presented in the following paper aims to facilitate continuous factory adaptation by shifting factory-planning tasks to decentralized areas. These decentralized areas, represented by production agents, are expected to coordinate their internal production locations amongst themselves on market principles and thereby keep the factory structure in a continuous process of updating. To facilitate decentralized structure planning, the agents are empowered to coordinate their orders. The price-date relationship will be introduced as a tool by means of which order management can be simplified as part of decentralized production planning and control and be integrated in self-organized production.
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