Presents an object‐oriented system for scheduling in a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) with the purpose of …

Describes flow‐shop scheduling problems and an interactive graphical flow‐shop manufacturing scheduling system (FSMS …) developed to handle any number of jobs and machines. Outlines the methodical approach of using scheduling tools, such as lower … determining optimal sequence, to cut scheduling time and make the scheduling system flexible. Outputs are in the form of Gantt …

Reviews some new trends in parallel machine scheduling (PMS). PMS, as an area of research, is governed by questions … capacitated machine scheduling. Discusses non‐regular objectives oriented by the JIT concept; pre‐emption with set‐up; capacitated … machine scheduling; and relationships between PMS and vehicle routeing problems.  …

Presents results of a nine‐year research and development project. At the beginning a scheduling simulation software was …

Admission scheduling is identified as an important strategy to match supply and demand in acute care hospitals. During … the last decades, many different theoretical models of admission scheduling have been developed, but only a few of them … and practice of admission scheduling. In this study we try to describe this gap using a two‐stage research methodology: an …

With the increasing emphasis on improving service sector staff scheduling, many organisations have turned to employing … well staff schedules can be matched against variable demand. Four heuristic staff scheduling procedures are examined that …

scheduling rule. The first‐come‐first‐served (FCFS) rule results in poor process utilisation because of its inferior queue …

In job‐shop scheduling research, the shortest processing time despatching rule (SPT) has received considerable …

for more than 70 per cent of total operating costs. While most service organisations can use flexible scheduling rules to … desired level of scheduling flexibility results in a very large population of possible schedules. Flexibility in shift … scheduling is increased primarily through increasing the number of different shift lengths and allowing flexible placement of …