Discusses the most widely accepted operations principle in the job shop working environment as the shortest processing time (SPT) job priority sequencing rule. It can be demonstrated that use of average job flow time as the measure of SPT efficiency in job flow scheduling introduces a...

Job‐shop operations, the emerging norm of industry, require reform of the management methods employed to achieve cost control and efficiency. Maximisation of capacity utilisation, the standard of efficiency for more than a century, does not work in the job shop. Queueless work flow and the...