Emergent Synthesis Approaches to Control and Planning in Make to Order Manufacturing Environments

The main goal of manufacturing systems with make to order environments is to provide products for unique requirements of customers. The demand for products can vary not only in product variety but in optimum criteria. Whilst a manufacturing system might be capable of producing the required product, there can appear difficulties for the system to fulfill the cost and time related constraints of the consumer. This paper introduces emergent synthesis approaches to manufacturing control and production planning in make to order environments to evaluate and control the range of time and cost constraints that the system is able to complete.