BUSI 2301 Lecture Notes - Makespan, Customer Service, Top Priority
5 Mar 2014
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Scheduling: establishing the timing of the use of eqpt, facilities, and human activities in an organization. Dynamic scheduling: location of scheduling in the production planning system. Shop floor control: execution of the schedule. Items are processed intermittently: three issues, run size, sequence, timing of batches, scheduling low-volume systems (job shops) Job shop scheduling: scheduling for low vol systems w many variations in reqms. Loading: the assignment of jobs to processing centres, infinite loading. Jobs are assigned to work centres without regard to the cap of the work centre: finite loading. Jobs are assigned to work centres taking into account the work centre cap and job processing times: vertical loading. Loading jobs at work centres independently: horizontal loading. Loading each job on all work centres it will require, on job at a time, according to some priority: forward scheduling. Scheduling ahead, starting from the start date of a job: backward scheduling. Scheduling by working backwards from the due date: schedule char.
