Multistage decision making process of multicriteria production scheduling

In this paper the multicriteria optimisation problem in scheduling of discrete manufacturing systems is presented. The proposed method is an extension of work on integrated management system for variable and multiassortment production to order in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that is developed in the Institute of Automation Processes Engineering and Integrated Manufacturing Systems of Silesian University of Technology. Particular attention was paid to discuss the scheduling system operating conditions in an integrated environment - a system operating in real time. The proposed method indicates different decision-making stages to be taken in scheduling, from defining the problem, determining the structure of the production system, constraints and objective function, up to the generation and evaluation of solutions. The various approaches of decision maker participation in the process of finding the best solution are taken into account: a priori, posteriori and interactive.