Maria Leonilde Rocha Varela

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a methodology of improvement of manufacturing productivity through increasing operational efficiency of the manufacturing process, which is verified by a manufacturing company which is a supplier of goods for i.e. the automotive and medical industries.

TL;DR: The tool introduced in the article enables scheduling based on author’s priority rule allowing maximum usage of the most loaded resource (known as critical resource), which determines efficiency of the production system.

TL;DR: A web based scheduling system for supporting decision-making under the scope of distributed manufacturing scheduling in a Virtual Enterprise by combining a simulation-based approach, with the Hungarian algorithm, for solving job-shop scheduling problems is presented.

TL;DR: The main purpose of this research consists on presenting a proposed methodology, based on the study conducted, to enable to further assist either academia or industry to develop new tools, techniques and approaches for integrated process planning in networked manufacturing environments.

TL;DR: The architecture here presented shows the integration of enriched existing (cloud) services, as instances of resources, with layers of new services towards direct and synchronous communication between users.