Approaches to the production flow scheduling and control

In the paper different methods of production order scheduling and control that are elaborated by the author and the team are presented. The history starts from the dispatching rules and goes to the distributed control by the local dispatching rule allocation and application them in the software (KbRS, SWZ, etc). In the next stage of the paper the discussion goes to the integration of these approaches. Last stage of the paper the artificial intelligence (Immune Algorithm) application for optimization of the schedule under the condition that any permissible solution is attainable is proposed. This application is only the part of the integrated system and is utilized as a tool for the solution improvement.