Abstract

Ship production planning and scheduling at higher levels do not explicitly consider scheduling details at the level of individual workshops. However, the schedule of major events in ship production is collectively influenced by the actual shop-level, short-interval production schedules, which depend on resource and material availability and also on the due dates and priorities of the workloads. This necessitates development of robust, resource-constrained, shop-level scheduling systems that can support higher-level schedules in ship production. WorkShip (Knowledge Based Systems, Inc., College Station, TX) is a software tool for scheduling workload over short, regular intervals in workshops of a shipyard. It is driven by a powerful scheduling engine that is based on a generic model of resource-constrained job-shop scheduling and an efficient scheduling technique. Similar scheduling systems are being developed in other shops so that all systems can be used in tandem to support higher-level scheduling and help achieve optimal productivity for the shipyard.

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