Cooperative production switchover coordination for the real-time order acceptance decision

Abstract

This research addresses a cooperative production coordination method to maximise acceptance rates of customer orders. Accepting a new customer order may result in conflicts in generating or executing the production plans of given, committed orders. These conflicts can be prevented by adaptively modifying the production plans of the committed orders without violating their due dates. By switching the production priority rules of the committed orders, the production capacity can be extended during a specific time period, and this extended capacity can be considered to determine the acceptability of the new order. Demand and production capacity fluctuations have been examined for the validation of the proposed methods. The experimental results indicate that the proposed methods increase order acceptance and capacity utilisation rates by over 10–15% on average for variable order quantities and production capacities compared with fixed production methods. These results imply that the proposed methods are efficient in overcoming market fluctuation and production uncertainty.