Development of Platform for Production Planning Using Cloud Computing Technology

Similarity of production processes in different enterprises allows to develop common platform for production planning for these enterprise. However, it is needed to develop enterprise-specific modules for every type of enterprise. Cloud computing technology is proposed for automation of the following processes: transferring of new versions of the platform, setting of the platform, platform maintenance, platform updating, and platform functioning. This technology allows enterprise employees to get a dynamic remote access to the services, computational resources, and applications. Mathematic models and methods are used for solving optimization tasks for production planning and management which are developed as a solver module. An architecture of the platform based on the following levels is suggested: database management, application servers, web-server, and client software. A prototype based on the proposed architecture and solver is developed and described in the paper.