AutoPlan - Autonomous Systems Development Tool
AutoPlan is a project investigating the development of an autonomous system development
tool (ASDT) for application within manufacturing operations-planning, supported
by Preactor International Ltd (lead), Plessey Semiconductors Ltd, Centre For Factory
of the Future (C4FF), TDK LambdaC, Tata Steel Europe, Vision in Print, De
Montfort University.
The overall vision is to remove the failings of existing operations planning systems
in managing highly variable manufacturing environments. In such organisations the
high frequency with which process and supply chain disruptions occur and changes
in product design and customer demands happen, form major barriers to increasing
the competitiveness and maintaining the high rate of growth of successful manufacturing
businesses.
The key objectives of the project are to provide a means of adding autonomous decision-making
capability to the existing Finite Capacity Planning (FCP) processes of manufacturing
organisations.
Check out www.dmucfm.co.uk/asdt/
for more details