Cloud-based Job Dispatching Using Multi-criteria Decision Making☆

Abstract The dynamic nature of modern workshops and the change in availability of manufacturing equipment affects the allocation of manufacturing jobs. In order to cope with these requirements a module that ranks manufacturing equipment and proposes the best fitted machine to perform a specific manufacturing task according to capabilities, availability and suitability is needed. This paper presents such a framework for allocating tasks to manufacturing equipment according to the capabilities, the availability and the running cost of the manufacturing equipment. The decisions are made by using a multi-criteria decision making tool running in a Cloud environment with data being fed through web based protocols. The novelty of the proposed system lies in the fact that the solution is based on a Cloud Manufacturing environment and the selection process is based on the latest information regarding the machine tool data , received through a web interface. The functionality of the module is illustrated through a case study.

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