Engineering Faculty Internship: Transition from Batch Mode to Real Time Planning in Make-to-Order Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing

这次教员实习的目标是扩展现有的知识基础和技术，从现有的批量规划模式过渡到实时定制印刷电路板（pcb）的规划。这种转换背后的主要概念是，任何事件都将直接传递给服务器（它将是一个持续运行的调度处理器），而不是传递给数据库。时间表将被存储和更新利用一种有效的计算机内存管理形式称为位图。工业合作将允许使用Novell局域网（LAN）网络可加载模块（NLM）开发和测试实时规划算法。测试将基于一些美国主要PCB制造商的规划知识，这些制造商是工业赞助商的客户，目前正在使用批量模式规划系统。

The objective of this faculty internship is to extend the current knowledge base and technology involved in transitioning from the existing batch mode of planning to real time planning of make-to-order printed circuit boards (PCBs). The main concept behind this transition is that any event will be passed directly to a server, which will be a continuously running scheduling processor, instead of to a database. The schedules will be stored and updated utilizing an efficient form of computer memory management termed bitmapping. Industrial collaboration will allow the development and testing of a real time planning algorithm using a Novell local area network (LAN) netware loadable module (NLM). Testing will be based on planning knowledge from some of the major US PCB manufacturers who are clients of the industrial sponsor and are currently using the batch mode planning system.