It has been argued that supply chain should be integrated and different stages should be considered as a whole in order to achieve the overall optimal performance throughout the entire supply chain processes. Industrial parks gather different industries within a planned area. Various types of industries such as manufacturing, warehousing and transportation mimic a small supply chain. This environment favours the integration of supply chain to achieve global optimization in transportation planning and scheduling. It also favours sharing expensive RFID equipments between different members. This paper presents a service-oriented platform for fleet advanced planning and scheduling which enables essential information sharing and significant improving transportation planning and scheduling in industrial parks. Hierarchical transportation planning and scheduling has been adopted in FAPS system to guide the decision making. The use of the FAPS system leads to improve the fleet management, increase decision and operation efficiency as well as fleet resources utilization. The FAPS system demonstrates several key contributions. Firstly, RFID devices are used in working environment, and smart gateways are adapted and developed to create smart operation environments where changes and distances are tracked and traced on a real-time basis. Secondly, RFID-enabled real-time information traceability and visibility plays essential roles in coordinating decisions and operations of different parties involved in transportation process. Thirdly, adaptive optimization models and solution algorithms are developed and deployed as web services to solve integrated transportation planning and scheduling problems. The FAPS system is highly extensible and usable due to the innovative use of cutting-edge technologies for industrial informatics. Firstly, the platform follows a standard service-oriented architecture with key modules implemented as web services. This maximizes system integrity and scalability. Secondly, user interfaces are web-based and developed with web components supported by standard data models. This allows developers easily customize the user interface for different type of users. Finally, a centralized data-source web service is used to manage heterogeneous data sources. The third-party customizability and usability are achieved with minimum efforts without substantial re-coding efforts. Although R&D efforts have been carried out in close consultation with real-life cases, the FAPS system is yet to be tested in a real-life industrial environment. The library of optimization services must be consolidated for different application scenarios. The work has been done with a good intention is to adopt domain standards for enterprise information management. However, standards do not seem to be comprehensive enough for both manufacturing and logistics processes while the transportation seems to be related to both processes. Therefore, more efforts are necessary to better understand these standards for better exploitation.
Service oriented platform for RFID-eeabled real-time fleet advanced planning and scheduling in industrial parks
2013
11 Seiten, 3 Bilder, 12 Quellen
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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