Abstract
In this paper, we propose a distributed scheduling system for Flexible Manufacturing, which has no global management processes. In the proposed system, each component such as machining cell and machining center has its own scheduling process, and each job carries its own information such as processing information and due date. Each scheduling process generates schedules using three kinds of informations: (1) the information maintained locally, (2) the information estimated from the local information in the other scheduling processes, and (3) the information carried by each job. We show the efficiency of our proposed scheduling system in computer simulations.
