G. Adamopoulos et al., PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT IN THE TEXTILE-INDUSTRY USING THE YFADI DECISION-SUPPORT SYSTEM, Computers & chemical engineering, 18, 1994, pp. 190000577-190000583
The decision support system (DSS) presented here is dealing with the p
roduction planning and scheduling in the textile industry. The DSS aim
s at the efficient management of a mixed production system (job-shop a
nd now-shop), such as that of the textile industry. Its main feature i
s the effective combination of a database and a model based management
system in order to merge existing expert knowledge. A powerfull user
interface makes the DSS user-friendly and a multi-module formulation i
s used for better interpretation and analysis of the production proced
ures.