Development and integration of a reactive real-time decision support system in the aluminum industry

This paper aims at providing real-time decision support in reaction to disruptive events in manufacturing environments. More precisely, we demonstrate how this approach can support the rescheduling process in enterprise resource planning (ERP)-controlled environments. Our demonstrative example, based on a real scenario in the aluminum industry, illustrates how a genetic algorithm and a real-time discrete event simulation model can be integrated within the common enterprise information systems.