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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2009
Filed:
May. 11, 2005
Richard Gerard Burda, Pleasant Valley, NY (US);
Alfred Degbotse, Colchester, VT (US);
Brian Trevor Denton, Winooski, VT (US);
Kenneth Jeffrey Fordyce, Hurley, NY (US);
Robert John Milne, Jericho, VT (US);
Richard Gerard Burda, Pleasant Valley, NY (US);
Alfred Degbotse, Colchester, VT (US);
Brian Trevor Denton, Winooski, VT (US);
Kenneth Jeffrey Fordyce, Hurley, NY (US);
Robert John Milne, Jericho, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and computer program product for scheduling product lots through operations of a manufacturing line. The method including: selecting a sequential subset of a set of sequential operations required to manufacture the lots; partitioning the product lots into designated lots and non-designated lots; and generating a release schedule for each of the non-designated lots into one or more operations of the sequential subset of the set of sequential operations; generating a release schedule for each of the designated lots into each operation of the sequential subset of the set of sequential operations such that for each designated lot a total amount of time measured from completion of a first operation of the sequential subset of the set of sequential operations through start of a last operation of the sequential subset of the set of sequential operations does not exceed a target amount of time for the designated lots.