Modern production systems have become more flexible and agile. For them a suitable control and
planning method is needed. Agent-based systems offer the required characteristics. The
contributions of these work are a remodeling of the Shifting Bottleneck heuristic to include
limited buffers the development of a decentralized multi-agent system for production planning
and the adaptation of the heuristic to the agent system. It concludes with evaluations of
real-world production systems.
