Cell control system

A cell control system, comprising:

• a production planning device;
• at least one manufacturing cell that includes a plurality of manufacturing machines;
• and
• a cell controller that transmits an operation instruction to the plurality of manufacturing machines based on a manufacturing plan received from the production planning device, wherein
• the cell controller includes
• a machine operation instructing unit that creates an operation schedule of the plurality of manufacturing machines based on the manufacturing plan,
• an operation information collecting unit that collects operation information of the plurality of manufacturing machines, the operation information including an operation time of one of the manufacturing machines,
• an alarm probability estimating unit that estimates an alarm occurrence probability per unit time by dividing the number of times of alarm occurrences by the operation time collected by the operation information collecting unit, the alarm occurrence probability being
• a probability that an alarm occurs in a case where a single one of the plurality of manufacturing machines performs processing, and
• a probability that an alarm occurs in a case where the plurality of manufacturing machines simultaneously perform processing,
• a schedule candidate creating unit that creates at least one operation schedule candidate based on the operation schedule created by the machine operation instructing unit, the operation schedule candidate having a changed order of an operation element configuring the operation schedule or a changed start time of the operation time, and
• an optimal candidate selecting unit that
• estimates a necessary time that takes the occurrence of the alarm into account for each of the operation schedule and the operation schedule candidate based on both (i) the alarm occurrence probability estimated by the alarm probability estimating unit when a single manufacturing machine of the plurality of the manufacturing machines performs the processing and (ii) the alarm occurrence probability estimated by the alarm probability estimating unit when the plurality of the manufacturing machines simultaneously performs the processing, and
• selects, as a selected operation schedule, one of the operation schedule and the operation schedule candidate with a shortest necessary time that takes the occurrence of the alarm into account, and
• the machine operation instructing unit transmits the operation instruction to the plurality of manufacturing machines based on the selected operation schedule.