Development of a Multi-Project Production Planning and Scheduling System With Agent Technology Available to Purchase

This study intends to propose an intelligent system with agent technology in order to realize integration and cooperation of multi-project production planning and scheduling process. The agent-based system framework, in which various intelligent agents worked together to perform multi-project production planning and scheduling tasks in an autonomous and collaborative way, is put forward. The system consists of three categories of agents and functional definition of each intelligent agent is presented. Moreover, agents communication mechanism and cooperation sequence diagram are proposed. Furthermore, an intelligent algorithm based on fuzzy comprehensive evaluation is designed to resolve competition conflicts among the agents. Finally, an experiment example was illustrated and the algorithm was demonstrated feasible and efficient.