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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2006
Hans-juergen Biegler, Oftersheim, DE;
Christian Embacher, Ketsch, DE;
Christoph Glania, Muehlhausen, DE;
Nikolaus Jacob, Kippenheim, DE;
Thorsten Kulick, Bensheim, DE;
Thomas Schulz, Speyer, DE;
Carmen Riepp, Reilingen, DE;
Hans-Juergen Biegler, Oftersheim, DE;
Christian Embacher, Ketsch, DE;
Christoph Glania, Muehlhausen, DE;
Nikolaus Jacob, Kippenheim, DE;
Thorsten Kulick, Bensheim, DE;
Thomas Schulz, Speyer, DE;
Carmen Riepp, Reilingen, DE;
SAP AG, Walldorf, DE;
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.