scheduling tools
scheduling tools
If your production schedule is not meeting expectations, this article from Christian Ruf on types of scheduling systems and tools may help. Does your production scheduling fall short of your expectations? You might be using the wrong scheduling system! Production scheduling is the final planning stage before the actual production, and the resulting production schedule suggests to operators and supervisors on the shop floor which tasks should be executed on which machines and in which order. Traditionally, a hierarchical planning…
Christian D. Ruf shares an article that provides tools to improve the efficacy of job shop scheduling. This post is about job shop scheduling (production scheduling in job shops). Job shops are factories that process jobs that require processing at multiple workstations, where the subset and order of workstations vary between jobs. The principle is illustrated in the figure below. Examples are the manufacturing of customized products like computer servers to customer order, or hospitals where each patient is considered…
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