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    Set-up scheduling by fuzzy logic
    ( 1994)
    Mertins, K.
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    Albrecht, R.
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    Wegener, U.
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    Duttenhofer, F.
    Production Management Systems support the short-time planning and control of orders on the shop floor level in the factory. In order to support the planning staff a scheduling system was implemented reflecting most of the staff's experience. Because of the complexity of the scheduling problem and the unprecise descriptions of the planning strategy of the experts a system based on Fuzzy Logic scheduling system for an aluminium mill.
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    A flexible architecture for distributed shop floor control systems
    ( 1992)
    Mertins, K.
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    Krause, H.
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    Steinberger, V.
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    Albrecht, R.
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    Müller, W.
    In a flexible manufacturing environment the use of distributed, networked computers is growing. For control software it is necessary to keep pace with this development. Powerful mechanisms for netwide interprocess communication are needed as well as special a dedicated manufacturing database. This article shows the requirements such an environment poses to software production and offers a software architecture that includes a variety of features to perform easily new and changing tasks in the area of shop floor control.