WO1997012335B1 - Method for the situation-dependent arrangement and/or activation of resources - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for the arrangement and/ or activation of resources. The method is controlled by events.

Claims

 CHANGED CLAIMS  [received at the International Bureau on April 11, 1997 (April 11, 1997); original claims 1, 4, 6-8, 10, 12-14, 17 and 18 changed;  all other claims unchanged (4 pages)] A method for situation-dependent automatic disposition over or activation of resources for the execution of orders, wherein from a set of resources which are available for the execution of given orders, the resources relevant to this event for a event occurring at a time or existing for their event Suitability and immediate or future availability for priority orders, where an order is selected for an available resource on the basis of criteria required for the orders, scheduled and then activated via the resource, or where the resource is appropriate for the orders Criteria for a priority order are selected, scheduled, and then activated, and each decision decision is preceded by a simulation to optimize the order of the orders to be completed (Optimization simulation). Method according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized After the occurrence of an event on stored master data, resources are automatically checked for their relevance for the event and, if the test result is positive, event-related data is made available for the disposition decision. Method according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized that the resources, if they are free for orders and determined for them or set up, generate a corresponding message, which is evaluated by the optimization simulation for the generation of the automatic planning decision. Method according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized that the resources each generate a message at the beginning of the availability and end of an order carried out by them and at an interruption information as well as an unscheduled interruption and the loss of availability. 8. The method according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized  that the optimization simulation constantly determines the dynamic priorities of all dispositive orders for the selected execution period and, taking into account the current order and resource properties at the time of availability notification of resources, automatically makes the scheduling decisions and forwards the selected orders to them for execution. 10. The method according to one or more of the preceding claims,  characterized,  that the disposition decision for the activation of resources can be suspended by withdrawing condition data necessary for the activation of the resources. 12. The method according to one or more of the preceding claims,  characterized,  that orders for resources can be canceled by entering appropriate data and processing them by the optimization simulation. 13. The method according to one or more of the preceding claims,  characterized,  that the resources are classified according to their characteristics for the execution of orders in classes. 14. The method according to claim 13,  characterized, that each resource has at least one main class relating to the particular suitability for the respective job and, if appropriate, subclasses, which relates to a lesser suitability for a job than at least one other resource assigned to the main class for that job. 17. The method according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized  that costs and / or deadlines and / or utilization and / or quality of the order are selected as criteria for the optimization. 18. The method according to one or more of the preceding claims,  characterized,  that data of an executed order are compared with predetermined data of an order before its execution and that from deviations correction factors for the optimization of future orders are determined.