A production rescheduling system for a large size parallel machine flow shop

A scheduling system is developed for a parallel machine flow shop which reflects the situations of the manufacturing processes in the tire industry. The schedule is generated via simulation using heuristic rules to get satisfaction on such constraints as due dates, demands, work-in-process, process capacity, set-up times and scheduling speed. This system, constructed with relational DB, SQL and C language, consumes less than 10 minutes of PC simulation to handle real size problems.