Process Planning and Scheduling for Distributed Manufacturing

Lihui Wang is a professor of virtual manufacturing at the University of Skövde’s Virtual Systems Research Centre in Sweden. He was previously a senior research scientist at the Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council of Canada. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Western Ontario, and a registered professional engineer in Canada. His research interests and responsibilities are in web-based and sensor-driven real-time monitoring and control, distributed machining process planning, adaptive assembly planning, collaborative design, supply chain management, as well as intelligent and adaptive manufacturing systems. Dr Weiming Shen is an Senior Research Officer in the Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council of Canada. He is also an Adjunct Full Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo. His research interests are in Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Concurrent Engineering, Collaborative Design and Manufacturing, Virtual Design and Manufacturing, Virtual Enterprises and Supply Chain Management, e-Commerce / e-Businesses, and Knowledge-Based Systems.

An Effective Approach for Distributed Process Planning Enabled by Event-driven Function Blocks.- Web-based Polishing Process Planning Using Data-mining Techniques.- Integration of Rule-based Process Selection with Virtual Machining for Distributed Manufacturing Planning.- CyberCut: A Coordinated Pipeline of Design, Process Planning and Manufacture.- Process Planning, Scheduling and Control for One-of-a-Kind Production.- Setup Planning and Tolerance Analysis.- Scheduling in Holonic Manufacturing Systems.- Agent-based Dynamic Scheduling for Distributed Manufacturing.- A Multi-agent System Implementation of an Evolutionary Approach to Production Scheduling.- Distributed Scheduling in Multiple-factory Production with Machine Maintenance.- Resource Scheduling for a Virtual CIM System.- A Unified Model-based Integration of Process Planning and Scheduling.- A Study on Integrated Process Planning and Scheduling System for Holonic Manufacturing.- Managing Dynamic Demand Events in Semiconductor Manufacturing Chains by Optimal Control Modelling.- A Parameter-perturbation Approach to Replanning Operations.- STEP into Distributed Manufacturing with STEP-NC.