Method for Allocating Resources to Machines of a Production Facility

Abstract

A method for allocating resources to machines of a production facility comprises: receiving forecast data indicating planned demands for the resources and a demand deviation for each resource; generating a new demand for each resource from the planned demand and the demand deviation of the resource in several iterations; assigning capacities to the new demands in each iteration by determining resource-machine combinations, wherein a priority is determined for each resource and each machine based on a set of priority rules, wherein the resource-machine combinations are determined by combining the resources and the machines according to the priorities; and generating a roll-out plan assigning resource-machine combinations to be rolled out to future time periods, wherein the roll-out plan is generated from the resource-machine combinations of different iterations and an estimated roll-out time for each resource-machine combination such that a total number of the resource-machine combinations to be rolled-out is minimized.

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