In large-scale manufacturing systems involving a large amount or information, resources and design activities, scheduling of these activities simultaneously in design process is an important step toward achieving concurrency. In this paper, a new heuristic policy for scheduling or concurrent design activities is developed. It decides which combination of activities to be performed simultaneously without violating any of the constraints by a trade-off between time order, resources, and information in a global view. At last an example is given to show the algorithm.
Heuristic Scheduling, Information Weighted Factor (IWF), Composite Allocation Factors, (CAF), Minimal Delaying Alternatives, Maximal Scheduling Alternatives.
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