significance of maintenance to manufacturing competitiveness, it is surprising how little research is being carried out. Scheduling … maintenance scheduling and surveys representative work from the academic and practitioner literature. Specific points of practice …

A fast production scheduling system, the very fast scheduler (VFS), has been developed by the authors. It creates a … quality of the schedules is comparable with the best alternative heuristic scheduling techniques. The speed of the scheduler …

Labour scheduling heuristic methods have been applied in service operating environments using both actual and synthetic … supplement for making their scheduling decisions. Also recommends that labour scheduling researchers use multiple levels of mean …

Proposes a heuristic iterative scheduling algorithm for the resource constrained project scheduling problem. Considers … their start times and the project payment is made on its completion. The iterative scheduling algorithm consists of forward …/ backward scheduling passes, where consecutive scheduling passes are linked by updated activity time windows. The iterative …

Concerns scheduling five jobs through a flow shop with five machines. The distribution of makespans and the …

Much of the research literature in job shop scheduling deals with pure job shop environments. However, currently most …. Presents a study of such a job shop under varying conditions and performance criteria. Argues that for scheduling in this … environment, certain combinations of scheduling rules should be utilized under different arrival rates and for different job types …

planning, lot‐sizing, job scheduling and evaluation of the final production plans into a complete planning and scheduling … system. In‐corporation of a simple heuristic scheduling algorithm into the HPP model is the primary contribution. The … scheduling routine schedules the jobs based on just‐in‐time (JIT) concept and provides detailed shopfloor information such as job …

Reviews a critical aspect of job shop scheduling research, namely the decision regarding release timing of orders to …

The general practice in implementing an appointment scheduling rule (ASR) is to enforce a certain rule, such as “block …