Distributed Manufacturing Scheduling

该项目旨在通过检查Ontario Drive and Gear （ODG）中现有的制造计划，并将其与优化后的制造计划进行比较，了解可以收集到哪些额外的管理见解。ODG感兴趣的是描述他们当前的分散调度方法与集中式调度方法的比较，并查看可以向其调度程序提供哪些额外的培训，以便分散调度方法可以像集中式方法一样执行。这项研究的结果将使ODG了解他们目前的调度过程，以及如何通过额外的培训和新的业务调度规则来改进它。加拿大将通过向其制造商展示，授权员工制定自己的分散时间表可以在激励员工的同时保持生产计划的有效性，从而获得制造优势。

This project aims to see what additional managerial insights may be gleaned by examining existing manufacturing schedules within Ontario Drive and Gear (ODG) and benchmarking them against ex post optimal manufacturing schedules. ODG is interested in characterizing how their current decentralized scheduling method compares to a centralized scheduling method, and to see what additional training may be provided to its schedulers so that the decentralized scheduling method may perform as well as a centralized method. The study's results will give ODG an understanding of their current scheduling process and how it may possibly be improved with additional training and new business scheduling rules. Canada stands to gain a manufacturing edge by showing its manufacturers that empowering their employees to set their own decentralized schedules can maintain production schedule effectiveness while motivating their employees.