Logistical Control of Flexible Processes in High-throughput Systems by Order Release and Sequence Planning

High-Throughput Systems (HTS) are utilised predominantly in pharmaceutical and food industry as well as medical technology. Those rigidly linked systems with large outputs of up to 100,000 samples per day are used for screening or synthesis. The usage of HTS enables major increases in quantities and decreases in throughput time. With regard of testing materials in a HTS flexible processes and process inherent restrictions have to be controlled. Currently it has not been researched whether a logistical control method which is able to deal with these requirements exist. Due to this, in this early approach the influence of order release and sequence planning in a HTS with occurring ad hoc changes like partial testing and re-routing is considered and evaluated. The results demonstrate indicators for the development of a new generation of logistical control methods which enable production systems to produce a high number of variants in high volume.