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

这次教师实习的目的是扩大 转型所涉及的现有知识基础和技术 从现有的批量计划模式向真实的时间计划转变， 按订单生产印刷电路板（PCB）。 主要概念 在这种转换的背后，任何事件都将被直接传递， 到服务器，这将是一个连续运行的调度 处理器，而不是数据库。 时间表将被存储在 并利用有效形式的计算机存储器进行更新 管理称为位图。 工业合作将使发展和 使用Novell局域网测试真实的时间规划算法 网络（LAN）Netware嵌入式模块（NLM）。 测试将基于 美国主要PCB制造商的规划知识 他们是工业赞助商的客户，目前正在使用 批处理模式计划系统。

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.