Systems and methods for production planning with sequence independent setup activities

US7454260B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Hans-Juergen Biegler · Schwetzingen, DE
• Christian Embacher · Ketsch, DE
• Christoph Glania · Östringen, DE
• Nikolaus Jacob · Kippenheim, DE
• Thorsten Kulick · Bensheim, DE
• Thomas Schulz · Athens, US
• Carmen Riepp · Reilingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 13, 2006
• Grant date: Nov 18, 2008
• Expiry date: Nov 18, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06316
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for planning production processes. In one implementation, a method is provided that includes the steps of planning a sequence of processes running on a resource, where the planning takes into account setup times for the resource for a process depending at least on predecessor process information, storing the sequence of processes, and defining time intervals for the resource within which setup times for processes are held constant independently of the predecessor process information.