Production Planning and Scheduling (PPS) Version 1.0

Deals with problems of decision-making in all manufacturing companies who want to have a sophisticated information system for production planning and scheduling. PPS specification provides XML schema and communication protocols for information exchange among manufacturing application programs in the web-services environment. The Core Elements section focuses on information model of core elements which can be used as ontology in the production planning and scheduling domain. Since the elements have been designed without particular contexts in planning and scheduling, they can be used in any specific type of messages as a building block depending on the context of application programs. The Transaction Messages section focuses on transaction messages that represent domain information sent or received by application programs in accordance with the context of the communication, as well as transaction rules for contexts such as pushing and pulling of the information required. Finally, the Profile Specifications section focuses on profiles of application programs that may exchange the messages. Application profile and implementation profile are defined. Implementation profile shows capability of application programs in terms of services for message exchange, selecting from all exchange items defined in the application profile. The profile can be used for definition of a minimum level of implementation of application programs which are involved in a community of data exchange.

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