A new generation in ERM systems: The Tic Tac Toe algorithm

In this work are briefly reviewed the management achievements and the present challenges to the batch process industry, giving special emphasis to the current difficulties that face up the order management systems. The enterprise resource management systems (ERM) require real time execution and an efficient transaction-oriented approach. The system performance proposed is based on the Tic Tac Toe algorithm, which follows an exact non-combinatorial deterministic approach capable of giving not only the optimum, but all the optimal solutions for a scheduling problem in multiproduct plants in very short time. The resulting tool is appropriate to fulfil the requirements of autonomous order entry systems in integrated real time systems.