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For years, much emphasis has been focused on the concurrent design and manufacturing, and other integrated production activities. However, the distributed production scheduling, a post-design procedure playing a very crucial role in the whole process of production, has not received sufficient attention. Comparing with traditional single-factory or single-jobshop scheduling, the distributed scheduling is uneasy to manage and the information exchange between different scheduling participants is much more complex. This paper reports a web-based system to enable production scheduling for the distributed manufacturing environment with the utilization of the latest Internet and World Wide Web (WWW) technology. A Genetic Algorithm (GA), which involves once gene crossover and twice gene mutation, is adopted as the scheduling kernel to make distributed scheduling optimization. The entire web-based scheduling system includes three layers, i.e., stand-alone application module, scheduling agent module, and e-scheduling module. They are implemented using Java Application and Applet Language. With such a system in place, every manufacturing participant is no longer an isolated production element and the information among the participants can be shared and exchanged in real time. 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